I'd pull/pluck the feathers with eggs on them or cut the eggs off. Or you'll ou need to spray your hens with poultry spray, clean out the coop again, spray the coop down well with poultry spray all over, inside and outside around the coop. Then you go onto a schedule of spraying so they cannot return. I would not use the worminator again.
Twin City Poultry Supply has a reasonably priced poultry spray concentrate.
From: Kristen Langlais <laughingcrowfarm@yahoo.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 6:37 AM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] lice question
Twin City Poultry Supply has a reasonably priced poultry spray concentrate.
Cathryn rainbowsilkiesTM Michigan
From: Kristen Langlais <laughingcrowfarm@yahoo.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 6:37 AM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] lice question
Hi everyone,
I noticed 9 days ago that my hens had lice. Many, many lice -- yuck. I feel terrible for not noticing sooner and noticed they were getting a bit thin, so I had wormed them using the Worminator drops a couple weeks ago. I quickly cleaned out the coop, powdered it down with both DE and garden dust. Dusted the vents with garden dust. All lice gone (for now) and I did lose one of our favorite hens. Just found her dead in the coop. We had another favorite one separated at the time w/ what I think was an ongoing abdomen problem that began around Easter; probably tumors or some weird disease. ALl my hens are over 5 yrs old. So now I have hens with the eggs on the base of the feathers and it's been 9 days since I dusted them. Should I do it again perhaps tonight (no eggs have hatched yet at far as I can see)? And do I have to clean out the coop again? I hope that the garden dust didn't kill my hen and that it was just my slow response to the lice problem. I hope that stuff is safe! I'd use just DE this time around if it'll be effective for the next generation of lice to come...
Thanks for any advice you can offer,
Kristen
I noticed 9 days ago that my hens had lice. Many, many lice -- yuck. I feel terrible for not noticing sooner and noticed they were getting a bit thin, so I had wormed them using the Worminator drops a couple weeks ago. I quickly cleaned out the coop, powdered it down with both DE and garden dust. Dusted the vents with garden dust. All lice gone (for now) and I did lose one of our favorite hens. Just found her dead in the coop. We had another favorite one separated at the time w/ what I think was an ongoing abdomen problem that began around Easter; probably tumors or some weird disease. ALl my hens are over 5 yrs old. So now I have hens with the eggs on the base of the feathers and it's been 9 days since I dusted them. Should I do it again perhaps tonight (no eggs have hatched yet at far as I can see)? And do I have to clean out the coop again? I hope that the garden dust didn't kill my hen and that it was just my slow response to the lice problem. I hope that stuff is safe! I'd use just DE this time around if it'll be effective for the next generation of lice to come...
Thanks for any advice you can offer,
Kristen
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