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OK OK OK My eyes are fully open. I am having no luck with store bought product for parasites. couple of questions: How do I use the old school product? Do I feed it to my chicks? Or do I rub it on them? Where can I find these item: Orange/Rosemary/Clove oils, & Sulphur powder? Will pine tar stop them from eating each other feathers or is that not consider cannibalism? It really mess and sticky stuff. Will it help them from picking at each other if I rub it on them? What about the coop and run? I have been useing Seven 5, and Adams spray. I live in Florida so the coop is mostly open and after 10 monthe the run is all dirt. I have used lime in the nesting boxes and Seven 5 in dust baths. Made them a really nice dust box with sand and seven and no one uses it. I use sand (mason) left over from the pool? Should I have used something different.
Has any one tryed the method of cleaning the coop:
1 take gallon can and use 1/4 qt of keroseen and 1/2 qt of> mineral oil> (2 paint all roost poles and all cracks in wood of building> and knot holes as these mites or lice are living behind the> boards and comming out at night to suck blood.
Got this suggestion a while ago, but now I have just finished up the store bought junk and I am going to give the a try this week end?
I know this is alot of ?? but I love my birds and just was to get the looking and feeling better. thanks to all
You an often find the oils at health food stores - or if you have one nearby, a pagan shop will have the essential oils, also.
Where I used to live, we had a wonderful health food store with a whole (small) room full of oils.
Alternatvely, if you live in the sticks... you can get them all on internet. Look on ebay, you may find them there, just make sure you are getting Essential oils, and not Fragrance oils.
eta - the sulphur powder you may also find on ebay listed as Brimstone
(if it's a pagan listing)
OK OK OK My eyes are fully open. I am having no luck with store bought product for parasites. couple of questions: How do I use the old school product? Do I feed it to my chicks? Or do I rub it on them? Where can I find these item: Orange/Rosemary/Clove oils, & Sulphur powder? Will pine tar stop them from eating each other feathers or is that not consider cannibalism? It really mess and sticky stuff. Will it help them from picking at each other if I rub it on them? What about the coop and run? I have been useing Seven 5, and Adams spray. I live in Florida so the coop is mostly open and after 10 monthe the run is all dirt. I have used lime in the nesting boxes and Seven 5 in dust baths. Made them a really nice dust box with sand and seven and no one uses it. I use sand (mason) left over from the pool? Should I have used something different.
Has any one tryed the method of cleaning the coop:
1 take gallon can and use 1/4 qt of keroseen and 1/2 qt of> mineral oil> (2 paint all roost poles and all cracks in wood of building> and knot holes as these mites or lice are living behind the> boards and comming out at night to suck blood.
Got this suggestion a while ago, but now I have just finished up the store bought junk and I am going to give the a try this week end?
I know this is alot of ?? but I love my birds and just was to get the looking and feeling better. thanks to all
You an often find the oils at health food stores - or if you have one nearby, a pagan shop will have the essential oils, also.
Where I used to live, we had a wonderful health food store with a whole (small) room full of oils.
Alternatvely, if you live in the sticks... you can get them all on internet. Look on ebay, you may find them there, just make sure you are getting Essential oils, and not Fragrance oils.
eta - the sulphur powder you may also find on ebay listed as Brimstone
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