Re: Chicken Lice?

a_l_p <hay_hell_pea@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:esn9i2$knj$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

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

well, in a month i should be able to scrub down the barn.
what is recommended for cleaning & debugging chicken houses?

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.

i agree with that! i'll try the oil mix. i have loads of
sample bottles of baby oil leftover from having a baby... 6.5
years ago ;) should cover the kero smell, too.
i have to catch the Silkie girls. i can't tell if they have
the scaly legs through the fuzzy feet. i'm planning on
treating every chook in the pen though. i suppose i should
also treat the roos? same barn, & they share a solid plywood
wall with the girls... i don't see anything odd about their
legs though. how well can the mites travel?

Mind you oil doesn't deal to any other parasites, and the
Ivomectin/Ivomec does.

i don't see any other signs of mites, other than the scaly
leg (the Sussex roo in with the hens is the worst & the Orps
have tiny patches of scales just starting to look odd.
is there a way to find these mites to look at them under a
microscope? how about intestinal parasites? can one do fecal
smears like with large animals?

--
Question with boldness even the existence of god; because if
there be
one, he must more approve the homage of reason than that of
blindfolded
fear. - Thomas Jefferson
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