Re: Chicken Lice?

enigma wrote:
a_l_p <hay_hell_pea@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:eslsg2$49i$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:


Notes I was given along with a small quantity of
Ivermectin:

Scaly leg and other parasites, internal and external, in
poultry Dosage 0.1 ml / kg
Examples of weight:
Polish hen 1.5 kg
Medium breed 2 – 3 kg
Heavy breed, e.g. Orpington 4 – 5 kg
Withholding period 7 days before using eggs or meat for
human consumption. Eggs can be safely fed to dogs.
How to administer: Suck up required amount for one bird
into syringe. DO NOT use a needle to administer the
liquid. Squirt the liquid onto the skin on the neck of the
fowl up above the shoulders, where she cannot reach it when
grooming herself.It is easiest to do this at night when the
birds are roosting in their house. A headband-light is
good since it leaves your hands free.


thank you!!!
we've had an outbreak of scaly leg, & it's too cold to toss the birds outside for an hour while i spray the barn (it's -10 to -30F with the windchills this week). i've been gooping everyone, including the ones that look normal, with petroleum jelly, but it's frustrating & doesn't seem, to me anyway, that it solves the problem.
since we have something like 18 dozen eggs in the fridge, losing a weeks worth to the dogs will not be any loss really (& the dogs can use the extra protein for the cold, i'm sure, especially the Mal, who hates being indoors).
one question though, will i need to redose with the Ivermectin in 10 days or a month, or should one dose take care of it? usually we start getting warmer weather by April & the chooks won't mind being out while i do a good scrub down of the barn (& i'll probably just replace all the roosts). lee


Sorry, can't tell you anything useful about redosing... see how they look, I suppose :-)

My leg mix is cooking oil, baby oil, a few drops of kero - imprecise eh! In a bottle with a long nozzle and a look of string attached to the neck so I can hang it on a nail between uses. Grab chook, drip/squirt oil around legs till it's covered it and gone into the little crevices between scales all the way down the leg and feet, hang up bottle, grab another chook, subject to the same indignity, repeat................. Vaseline is too hard to work into all the little gaps IMO.

The oil is especially good when you find a chook with really badly spread scales. Sometimes they are sticking out so much that in handling they can snag which must hurt the bird, but the oil just flows into the gaps.

Mind you oil doesn't deal to any other parasites, and the Ivomectin/Ivomec does. It's not supposed to be given out by vets for chooks here, hasn't been approved for that use by whatever govt agency blah-blah-blah. Probably because testing to approval standard is too expensive for such a small market i.e. a commercial decision not a safety issue.

A L P
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