Re: Chicken Lice?

enigma wrote:
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?

Internal parasites, I meant. I don't think chook mites would travel far "overland" but in the same barn... probably better safe than sorry.

The oil treatment doesn't last forever, and it's worth doing a squirt around the troops every time you think of it rather than waiting for someone to look obviously scaly. You may have to do it every few days at first just to make sure that all the little blighters get a dose, even the ones who were hiding in the depths of a scale with their legs over their eyes!

Someone else will I'm sure have more compreHENsive info - I really don't know much, just old-timey backyard chook keeping like I was brought up with (mind you my parents went through the solid-house-netting-yard, then the triangular "movable" - if you were Charles Atlas - coop, and settled on the enclosed deep-litter house with big netting windows which is what I have in a more cobbled-together way. Lots of greens, either from weeding or outer leaves of cabbage from the shop. Good food, shelter from predators and damp & extremes of heat and cold, something to look at and things to do, who of us could ask for more?!!

A L P
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