Whats this and what to do?

[farhan1997]

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Looks like maybe bugs or bug damage.

I would treat using permethrin spray, personally.

 

[staceyj]

Lice eggs. You’ll have to treat all your birds and coop with permethrin spray
and/or dust.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Lice eggs. You’ll have to treat all your birds and coop with permethrin spray
and/or dust.

What will treating the coop do?

Lice live ON the host and lay their eggs ON the host.

Also, I have never YET seen eggs laid in such a random place... they are usually large clumps at the base of the feather shaft, not looking like a single egg that isn't even in a warm area for hatching. I am here to learn though... please share if you know something I haven't yet learned or seen?! Sincerely.

 

[Eggcessive]

What will treating the coop do?

Lice live ON the host and lay their eggs ON the host.

Also, I have never YET seen eggs laid in such a random place... they are usually large clumps at the base of the feather shaft, not looking like a single egg that isn't even in a warm area for hatching. I am here to learn though... please share if you know something I haven't yet learned or seen?! Sincerely.

You always should treat the coop with a lice outbreak. The coop should be emptied of all bedding, roosts, nests, and floor/walls should be treated. The chickens need treatment 2-3 times 10 days apart. Feathers drop off the birds along with the lice and lice eggs, then are lying in the pine shavings, ready to infest everyone in the coop. I never had a bug in my coop for years until a friend dropped off a young cockerel, and placed him into my flock before I had a chance to look him over. He was trying to help me start breeding some Marans. When I finally caught him, he had lice eggs all over his vent area, and by then, so did my other chickens. Big mistake!

 

[Sue Gremlin]

Interesting! They sure do look like louse eggs to me but I am not 100% certain given how they are arranged--lice usually congregate around the feather shafts. I'd need a closer look to be sure. Have you recently introduced any new chickens to your coop?
I would give your chickens a dust bath in a litterbox and fill with diatomaceous earth and wood ash to keep them down. You can add permethrin dust to that if you'd like. Since they don't tend to survive off the chicken for very long, they are not that difficult to control in healthy chickens.

 

[Kiki]

I would get some permethrin asap and treat all birds and coop. Lice can be hard to get rid of and the sooner you start the better. Permethrin sprays are easy to use. DE Is waste of money and won't do anything but irritate your birds.
Permethrin cones in a concentrate which needs to be mixed with water or in a ready to use spray like this:

Martin's PERMETHRIN spray

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• Mar 22, 2018
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Martin's Horse & Stable Permethrin Spray

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• Mar 22, 2018
• flies lice mites permethrin

Permethrin

 

[coach723]

Have you tried rubbing or scraping to see if it comes off? Feather mites can leave a residue behind on feathers that can look dirty or moldy, the only picture I can find is of white feathers, so on the darker feathers, don't know if it would look lighter due to different light reflection. In your pictures it sure does look like eggs of something. I would really be leaning towards treating for lice/mites, rather than let it get out of control.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

It would be interesting to know the OP's location (country/state) ---Never Mind I found it!
India!

I did find this thread, eggs looks identical(?) possible soft tick eggs?https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-kind-of-parasite-is-this.849391/

But then again, found what article say is mites (eggs?) in the wing feathers - this was in tropical location. https://aiteots.wordpress.com/2015/...er-flock-together-but-what-about-their-mites/

Whatever that is, I think we all agree it's some type of eggs - those need to be done away with IMHO. Treating the birds and housing would be the steps I would take.

 

[Sue Gremlin]

Ticks wouldn't glue eggs to the feathers like that, they deposit their eggs in the sand off their host. I believe that only lice would actually glue eggs to feathers like that, mites will not--you will see sticky eggs from mites, but they are not that deliberate in their egg-laying.