OOODLES OF LITTLE BLACK BUGS IN POOP!!! SICK HEN! COULD THIS BE IT??? URGENT!!!

[patti17340]

I hope your chicken get better soon.. I would be beside myself if mine were that sick. It is like having a child and not being able to make it well...

 

[Megan Amber]

The D.E. will work internally and is completely harmless! It doesn't matter if it is wet.I have used it to deworm before and have great results. Wet or not it WILL kill whatever it is. She just need to take it as SOON as possible!!

 

[casportpony]

Is it toxic? Will it be harsh on an already extremely weak chicken?

I don't know about Sevin, I use poultry dust on my sick ones. She is in your house, right?

 

[casportpony]

Mites are external parasites, not internal parasites. They prefer to feed around warm/moist areas of the chickens body...the vent area. Mites suck blood and cause anemia, then death. Mites cause the chickens immune system to weaken, opening the door for other types of diseases to invade the chickens system. Since you are seeing mites in the feces, that tells me that the rear end of your chicken is severely infested with mites. I highly recommend that you dust your chicken liberally with sevin dust in this situation, not with DE. DE would take too much time to do any good against an infestation of bloodsucking mites. Once you dust your chicken, redust her again in 7-10 days to kill nits hatched from eggs missed by the initial dusting. You will also need to dust her sleeping area and nests, repeat again in 7-10 days. Avoid getting the dust in the eyes and nostrils. Sevin dust can be purchased at any home improvement store and is much cheaper and more effective than DE.

One of the birds that I had necropsied had no external mites, but did have them in the skin.

 

[casportpony]

You should go to your nearest feed store and get a proper wormer like Safeguard liquid or paste (fenbendazole 10%) or Valbazen (albendazole), they're in the cattle, goat and horse section. Do not let anyone tell you that you should buy Wazine (piperazine 17% and 34%), it only kills roundworms.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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This stuff really works too- it is what I use now.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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In the skin?? Oh how awful!!!

 

[Megan Amber]

Well I certainly hope that the fact that PorchChicken has been off line all day isn't bad news!

 

[dawg53]

The D.E. will work internally and is completely harmless! It doesn't matter if it is wet.I have used it to deworm before and have great results. Wet or not it WILL kill whatever it is. She just need to take it as SOON as possible!!

You're right. DE IS harmless, especially against internal parasites.

 

[Megan Amber]

You mean it does not work on internal parasites?