Topic of the Week - Lice and Mites - Prevention and Treatments

[Bantam bell Wood]

I provide a dust bathing tray with a mixture of sand and ashes. If I've seen lice on one of the hens, I also add poultry dust (with pyrethrin).
For bad infestations, I treat the flock with ivermectin (applied directly to the skin at the back of their neck). I have read that ivermectin won't work for lice (or maybe it was mites?) but mine disappeared. Perhaps the dust bath got it under control.
I have not had to deal with northern red fowl mites, which I hear are more difficult to eliminate.