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[Totalcolour]

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I shall have to post a painting I'm working on - it was from a pic my sister took when we went to Whistler, or, more accurately on the way back. I'm sure you would recognize the view,

I'm planning on Chehalis ... hope to see many of you there ...

This will be my first time, I'm looking forward to meeting all the folks I "chat" with here.

DH may come, or not (if it's decent weather he needs to get his flight review done) ....

Been a long time since I had my last flight review . . .getting old, I mean "older"

 

[Chickielady]

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We're dealing with red mites here, as well. Not sure where the heck they came from, but so far its only on two of our bantam cockerels. The ladies are all fine, so we're keeping them together for now.

Each is being treated with oil mixed with Tea Tree Oil, got a magnificent bite from one of them for my tender care, too. Both will be treated again +10 days from first application.

We're also sprinkling DE about the pen and the birds. Next up will be Ivermectin on payday. We're also setting up new dust baths with sand and DE for the chickens, so they can self-administer.

I've got a broody hen in that pen that I'm keeping a good eye on. I may have to move her and treat her prophylacticly.

Good luck!

Red Mites, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm you mean the great Northern Fowl Mite or leg scale mites?
Fowl Mites disapear when shot with a spray of permethrin...available in pet stores for cage birds, give a spary to the back of neck & betwix the legs, around the vent but not ON/IN.
Other than that, poultry dust works (also permethrin) but messier & slower to do all your birds.
I have used both & love the spray.
I use Permectrin II avalable in concentrate, then mix with water in a spray bottle.
2X a year I do Eprinex...dab by eye dropper on the back of the neck kills all parasites inside & out.
Get to your pet store & get Lice & mite spray for cage birds until you can get permectrin II..........I will come & post a link here.
Directions on the bottle also for a bath on dogs for fleas, not for cats!
One big sign is your birds going nuts preening & figeting, and a very filthy bunch of dirty feathers between the legs will be mite eggs & poo.......gross.


Eprinex:No egg withdrawal

http://www.qcsupply.com/540110-ivomec-eprinex-pour-on-250-ml.html

Permectrin II:

http://www.qcsupply.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=permectrin+II
(this 8 oz bottle lasts a long long time!
Good for flies, & fleas on dogs.
Read the directions.I spray the whole coops & nests boxes down a few times a year.

 

[Totalcolour]

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So dear CL, all this work you are doing to make it to the show, how are you holding up with the leg and all? Please, PLEASE be careful - I really want to meet you! Don't do anything to screw things up. Keep yourself well.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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We're dealing with red mites here, as well. Not sure where the heck they came from, but so far its only on two of our bantam cockerels. The ladies are all fine, so we're keeping them together for now.

Each is being treated with oil mixed with Tea Tree Oil, got a magnificent bite from one of them for my tender care, too. Both will be treated again +10 days from first application.

We're also sprinkling DE about the pen and the birds. Next up will be Ivermectin on payday. We're also setting up new dust baths with sand and DE for the chickens, so they can self-administer.

I've got a broody hen in that pen that I'm keeping a good eye on. I may have to move her and treat her prophylacticly.

Good luck!

I tried DE first- indeed, they were dusting with DE before the leg mites showed up.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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boy not even a hello from the old crowd...

Hello? Sorry- been running circles around myself today.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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We're dealing with red mites here, as well. Not sure where the heck they came from, but so far its only on two of our bantam cockerels. The ladies are all fine, so we're keeping them together for now.

Each is being treated with oil mixed with Tea Tree Oil, got a magnificent bite from one of them for my tender care, too. Both will be treated again +10 days from first application.

We're also sprinkling DE about the pen and the birds. Next up will be Ivermectin on payday. We're also setting up new dust baths with sand and DE for the chickens, so they can self-administer.

I've got a broody hen in that pen that I'm keeping a good eye on. I may have to move her and treat her prophylacticly.

Good luck!

Red Mites, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm you mean the great Northern Fowl Mite or leg scale mites?
Fowl Mites disapear when shot with a spray of permethrin...available in pet stores for cage birds, give a spary to the back of neck & betwix the legs, around the vent but not ON/IN.
Other than that, poultry dust works (also permethrin) but messier & slower to do all your birds.
I have used both & love the spray.
I use Permectrin II avalable in concentrate, then mix with water in a spray bottle.
2X a year I do Eprinex...dab by eye dropper on the back of the neck kills all parasites inside & out.
Get to your pet store & get Lice & mite spray for cage birds until you can get permectrin II..........I will come & post a link here.
Directions on the bottle also for a bath on dogs for fleas, not for cats!
One big sign is your birds going nuts preening & figeting, and a very filthy bunch of dirty feathers between the legs will be mite eggs & poo.......gross.


Eprinex:No egg withdrawal

http://www.qcsupply.com/540110-ivomec-eprinex-pour-on-250-ml.html

Permectrin II:

http://www.qcsupply.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=permectrin+II
(this 8 oz bottle lasts a long long time!
Good for flies, & fleas on dogs.
Read the directions.I spray the whole coops & nests boxes down a few times a year.

I'm wondering, looking at Maggie's legs, if the Eprinex may have killed the mites but not knocked off the dead scales? Because she hasn't been getting worse, it's just that the other two don't have scales anymore.

 

[Chickielady]

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So dear CL, all this work you are doing to make it to the show, how are you holding up with the leg and all? Please, PLEASE be careful - I really want to meet you! Don't do anything to screw things up. Keep yourself well.

AND I totally cleaned 4 coops out today, ALL the bedding & one the nest straw too...........that is the Java coop, the buckeye coop, the Cou Cous coop (cuckoo marans) and the Amer-Turkey coop.
DH ran the wheel barrow, I scrapped, shoveled into the barrel & drug in fresh shavings.
Cool to get work done again however slow.
It takes me forever to get anywhere!
Thanks for asking, I am exhausted now..going to bed soon, getting up early so I can shave my LEG and go see Dr Boney..................

 

[Chickielady]

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Red Mites, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm you mean the great Northern Fowl Mite or leg scale mites?
Fowl Mites disapear when shot with a spray of permethrin...available in pet stores for cage birds, give a spary to the back of neck & betwix the legs, around the vent but not ON/IN.
Other than that, poultry dust works (also permethrin) but messier & slower to do all your birds.
I have used both & love the spray.
I use Permectrin II avalable in concentrate, then mix with water in a spray bottle.
2X a year I do Eprinex...dab by eye dropper on the back of the neck kills all parasites inside & out.
Get to your pet store & get Lice & mite spray for cage birds until you can get permectrin II..........I will come & post a link here.
Directions on the bottle also for a bath on dogs for fleas, not for cats!
One big sign is your birds going nuts preening & figeting, and a very filthy bunch of dirty feathers between the legs will be mite eggs & poo.......gross.


Eprinex:No egg withdrawal

http://www.qcsupply.com/540110-ivomec-eprinex-pour-on-250-ml.html

Permectrin II:

http://www.qcsupply.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=permectrin+II
(this 8 oz bottle lasts a long long time!
Good for flies, & fleas on dogs.
Read the directions.I spray the whole coops & nests boxes down a few times a year.

I'm wondering, looking at Maggie's legs, if the Eprinex may have killed the mites but not knocked off the dead scales? Because she hasn't been getting worse, it's just that the other two don't have scales anymore.

That can happen, OR there may have been mud gets up inside the lifted scales.....I have used a Water Pix to irrigate crud out from under the scales...water splashes every where but it works...my birds have their own pix tip.

Last time I groomed mine I used tea tree oil & Vick's Vapo Rub & vaseline & greased them up good, pushing the goo up under scales.
But I never have seen any leg mites.
Guess it works.

Edited to add: I believe that Vick's Vapo Rub would work FINE all by itself.........with no other additive.
That stuff will kill a tick, & it will kill leg mites.

 

[Chickielady]

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I shall have to post a painting I'm working on - it was from a pic my sister took when we went to Whistler, or, more accurately on the way back. I'm sure you would recognize the view,

I'm planning on Chehalis ... hope to see many of you there ...

This will be my first time, I'm looking forward to meeting all the folks I "chat" with here.

DH may come, or not (if it's decent weather he needs to get his flight review done) ....

Been a long time since I had my last flight review . . .getting old, I mean "older"

I am trying very hard to force myself to paint...................darn it is so hard to get me chained to the desk.
Once I see a scene I want to paint, there is no stopping me from dawn to after midnight sometimes...............but I cannot for the life of me sit still right now~~~~~~~~

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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So, you're saying I need to find some horse tranquilzer so I can catch her and rub her legs, eh?

Seriously: I caught the other two in one try, and spent the rest of the afternoon chasing her up and down the run. She is fast, whiley, and anti-social. And I seriously resent being out-smarted by a two-and-a-half-pound chicken. (It's also really annoying because I've treated stuff like hoof-rot in cattle in the field without tying them up, and THAT's easier than catching this chicken).