Solid stones at base of feathers near vent

[Charlotte D]

That was my first instinct (to cut off) but I was worried about blood loss.

 

[Painted Calls]

@casportpony are you familiar with UK products?

Here in the US, permethrin is the active ingredient we use. I'm not sure what's available across the pond though.

 

[Mark Park]

Ok, I'm in the UK and yes have a farm shop nearby but it doesn't do an awful lot of hen stuff. Can you name a particular product I could use please? I can always try to get on the internet.

I used to keep chickens when I lived in the UK.

The chooks will have to stay outside for a while.

You will have to clean out the chicken shed and burn the bedding. Pressure wash the shed and spray every inch of it with a pesticide from your farm shop.. Get new clean bedding.

Go to Mole Valley or whatever farm shop you go to and get some permethrin and ivermectin to treat the chicken with. Don't eat the eggs for as long as it says on the label.

To keep them from coming back get a bag of diatomaceous earth. Put some in the chickens dust bath. Put some in their feed to and it will prevent them from getting worms.

You can get rid of mites but it's impossible without getting rid of all the bedding, pressure washing, spraying, treating the chickens and giving them DE so they can keep themselves clean. If that old industrial hen is not laying eggs you can put some of that Spot On drench they use on dogs for flees to keep her from getting chewed up by the mites -- an expensive vet told me that once.

Good luck.

 

[Charlotte D]

Oh crikey. Thanks everyone.
I have some spray with permethrin in so can use that on the coop. I don't have anything currently that I can put on Raquel, other than DE, but will see what I can get. I need to get rid of the hard mass around her bottom. Any tips for cutting the feathers without her bleeding to death ?

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

Oh crikey. Thanks everyone.
I have some spray with permethrin in so can use that on the coop. I don't have anything currently that I can put on Raquel, other than DE, but will see what I can get. I need to get rid of the hard mass around her bottom. Any tips for cutting the feathers without her bleeding to death ?

Are they pin feathers or no?

 

[Charlotte D]

Are they pin feathers or no?

No don't appear to be.

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

No don't appear to be.

Then they won’t bleed. Just snip them off.

 

[Eggcessive]

Those are lice eggs, not mite eggs. You can pull them out which will remove some feathers. Look for a product with permethrin, pyrethrins, or spinosad. Your vet or a large animal feed store might have a product to recommend. Deet may also work. Diatom or DE does not work once their is an infestation. Lice eggs hatch every 10 days, so those eggs will hatch soon. If lice are treated at 10 day intervals, that will get the eggs. Some have said that coconut oil can be applied to lice eggs to get rid of them, but I have never tried that.

 

[NatJ]

This is probably obvious, but:
if one chicken has that, the others probably do too (although maybe not as badly.) So plan treatment for all birds, not just the one.

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is a good article with pictures of lice and mites and their eggs:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/poultry-lice-and-mites-identification/