Please let me know what I did wrong with my treatment!
Two months ago I noticed nits on the underbelly of most of my flock. I blame wild magpies hanging out in their run. I’ve fixed that problem so no more maggies.
I treated the 19 chickens by bathing them in water with an enzymatic poultry shampoo, sprayed them with liquid permethrin, cleaned out their coop, sprayed every nook and cranny in the coop with permethrin, replaced their bedding, and dusted the bedding with permethrin powder.
Then every seven days for the next three weeks I followed up with spraying the hot spots on the chickens with permethrin, and dusting the coop with permethrin powder.
I read up that Elector PSP is a one-and-done, so I bought it because I was tired of the weekly treatments on my flock.
At the fourth week I cleaned out the coop again, bathed all the chickens in warm water and a dash of poultry shampoo, and sprayed them AND the entire coop and run with Elector PSP.
As of yesterday half of them still had what looked like fresh nits, some had adult lice, and three of them have bald patches on their behinds. Three different ones have bald patches on their throats. With no pin feathers in sight. Just wrinkly skin.
What did I do wrong? How do I help my flock?
I know the permethrin and Elector PSP worked because for weeks there were dead or dying flies in the coop.
Two months ago I noticed nits on the underbelly of most of my flock. I blame wild magpies hanging out in their run. I’ve fixed that problem so no more maggies.
I treated the 19 chickens by bathing them in water with an enzymatic poultry shampoo, sprayed them with liquid permethrin, cleaned out their coop, sprayed every nook and cranny in the coop with permethrin, replaced their bedding, and dusted the bedding with permethrin powder.
Then every seven days for the next three weeks I followed up with spraying the hot spots on the chickens with permethrin, and dusting the coop with permethrin powder.
I read up that Elector PSP is a one-and-done, so I bought it because I was tired of the weekly treatments on my flock.
At the fourth week I cleaned out the coop again, bathed all the chickens in warm water and a dash of poultry shampoo, and sprayed them AND the entire coop and run with Elector PSP.
As of yesterday half of them still had what looked like fresh nits, some had adult lice, and three of them have bald patches on their behinds. Three different ones have bald patches on their throats. With no pin feathers in sight. Just wrinkly skin.
What did I do wrong? How do I help my flock?
I know the permethrin and Elector PSP worked because for weeks there were dead or dying flies in the coop.
