hi! I’m just wondering if any one has any advice for me.
I have been struggling for months with scaly leg mites and chicken lice. I have 22 chickens currently and most of them are showing symptoms of scaly leg mites. Some worse than others but I’m well aware that if one chicken has them they’ve all got them. This week I noticed a few chickens with runny bums and when I checked them I could see a few lice running around on them.
I have been struggling with this for almost a year and don’t know what to do next. For the scaly leg mites I have tried multiple methods to get rid of them but nothing has seemed very effective so far. I’ve used coopex to spray the coop down and repeated this also but I don’t think it ever worked effectively because I couldn’t manage to kill all the mites living on the chickens so it just started all over again.
For the lice I have tried poultry powder which I have used for red mites before and had great success but it doesn’t really seem to work on the lice.
I have heard of people wetting their chickens with coopex and spraying down the coop every week for a few weeks with great success. If it works it sounds like a great solution but when I looked it up, coopex says not to spray the chickens and to only use it on the perimeter. Is there another pesticide that I can use on the chickens to treat both lice and scaly leg mites. I feel like a drench would be the most effective way to treat them but I haven’t been able to find much information on how to treat multiple chickens effectively and safely. Any help would be appreciated I just want to get my chickens pest free.
I have been struggling for months with scaly leg mites and chicken lice. I have 22 chickens currently and most of them are showing symptoms of scaly leg mites. Some worse than others but I’m well aware that if one chicken has them they’ve all got them. This week I noticed a few chickens with runny bums and when I checked them I could see a few lice running around on them.
I have been struggling with this for almost a year and don’t know what to do next. For the scaly leg mites I have tried multiple methods to get rid of them but nothing has seemed very effective so far. I’ve used coopex to spray the coop down and repeated this also but I don’t think it ever worked effectively because I couldn’t manage to kill all the mites living on the chickens so it just started all over again.
For the lice I have tried poultry powder which I have used for red mites before and had great success but it doesn’t really seem to work on the lice.
I have heard of people wetting their chickens with coopex and spraying down the coop every week for a few weeks with great success. If it works it sounds like a great solution but when I looked it up, coopex says not to spray the chickens and to only use it on the perimeter. Is there another pesticide that I can use on the chickens to treat both lice and scaly leg mites. I feel like a drench would be the most effective way to treat them but I haven’t been able to find much information on how to treat multiple chickens effectively and safely. Any help would be appreciated I just want to get my chickens pest free.