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Good morning everyone. I want to thank everyone for the help.
I'll be going to the store and setting up my arsenal.
Only problem with the ivomec is my husband is pretty much against it.
I may have to just go with the permethrin dust.
In my researches I have found other products I could spray my coop down with so I continue to check those out online.
It will be a busy day treating all the birds and stripping the coop down.
I have a wood stove so I also have plenty of wood ash too.
Last night I went out to coop to see if I could find any evidence of mites in coop or on birds and still saw nothing. Still intend to treat everyone and coop though.
Also, when I was shutting birds up for the night, I did another check on some of them. Everyone got on the roost but one. Guess what I witnessed....she jumped up and grabbed "skirt" feathers of the others as they sat on roost. I dont think she was being a bully per se, it looked like she wanted to get into a certain spot on roost and wanted someone to move. I wonder if she does that every night?? That still doesn't explain her feather loss in the same area though. Ironically she is the tiniest of all of them.
Thank you again.
hugs to everyone
I hope everyone has a beautiful day!
Why don't you just initially treat the birds, the roosts and the nest boxes. Stripping down a whole coop, particularly if you have valuable deep litter cultures~don't know if you do~is pretty drastic. Get some good ol' castor oil to rub on those butt wounds, dust your gals and the places they sleep and nest and then just watch what happens.
Give it a little time and watch what happens. I wouldn't spray your coop and whatnot until you see if the body treatment will work or not work. For sure and certain you will not be able to kill every little parasite in the coop/run/yard environment...they can just come on back, but you can protect, and prevent them from feeding on, the food source.
