Treating Mites and Lice on Chickens
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2019
- If you have ever had mites and lice on your chickens and wondered how to get rid of them, well this video is for you.
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Please remember, if you keep chickens and allow them to free range, you will get mites. Mites show up because wild birds use the same watering jugs, forage the same food, and simply visit your yard.
Also, if you have a wooden coop, chances are you have mites. The humidity and temperature changes cause the wood to form tiny crevasses that mites hide during the day.
Basically, if you get mites, you have not failed your flock in any way. You are not a bad chicken keeper. It simply happens to even the healthiest flock of chickens.
OK, now that I got that out of the way...clean the coop regularly and DE is your friend!
Hectic. Thanks
You have been the most help with this situation so far. My family has never had the lice or mites problem before and we have to young pullets 1 and 2 months old that have lice, So I have been freaking out, you have been so helpful thank you!
Glad I could help!
Good video. Thanks for the info.
Wow amazing information! I have a pet chicken that I let roam free in my back yard. I took some eggs from a ranch ( the owners allowed me) and gave to my chicken because she was broody. Long story short now I have 4 beautiful chickens that are 2 1/2 months old 😂. I have all of them as pets. They always have food and clean water but other than that I know nothing about chickens only that I love them.
Awsome!
Thanks for the information
Thank you, 😊
Quick and easy thank you for the help
No problem 👍
thank you kindly sir most helpful
Just a note that if you do use DM in your coop, and you are deep composting, DM will kill the microbes working to process the waste and keep the smell down diminishing the benefit of the deep compost method.
Good information.Thanks
Much appreciated
Cool ideas
Thank you for your help 🙏
You're welcome 😊
Thanks
Thanks for the info!!!
Best solution. I tried same with my chicken tx.
Thanks
Thank you for the video. If my chickens have mites or lice how often should I do this?
Do it once a week till they no longer have mites or lice.
Thank you!
Did you know the blood parasites or mites only come out at night and crawl onto your bird have their fill of blood and in the morning they go back to their crevices that's why you spray with copper green it's very potent but it takes care of the problem.
I don't understand why so many people advised to use DE
It's never work for me on anyting
What ashes is this
how to get rid of chicken mites on human?
They can't live on humans. They can bite you but won't live on you
Would someone please be kind enough, to tell me how to get rid of bird mites infesting my whole house. I'm not sure how this happened, cause i don't keep birds. It is driving me insane cause no matter what I do, i cannot get rid of them, even the pest control has been unsuccessful.
Be great if i could get some good advice.
A friend of mine had this happen and he used propane heaters to heat up his house for a few hours and then he repeated this after a week to kill any that hatched out. I don’t remember the exact temperature but I think it was 160 degrees. Also be careful with the carbon monoxide that builds up when running the heaters.
@@boxelder9167 Thank you for the advice. I live in Australia, and propane heaters are illegal inside homes. I have ducted heating and I might give it a go. I suppose the 160 degrees you mentioned would be in Fahrenheit, which comes to 71 celcius. Wow, that's a lot of heat, but certainly worth a try.
The situation has got so bad, that we had to hire big dumpsters and get rid of furniture and linen. We have rented a small house, and moved in, while we continue to experiment with cleaning it out of this pest. Unfortunately, this pest moved in this other house with us, through some of the furniture we moved with us.
I have been using pest control companies, 3 so far, and they have been unsuccessful. I have used smoke bombs (many) and no success. Been spraying Cislin 25 but no success. Currently, I am using two ozone generators, and they seem to be doing something, but doing it daily and we get out of the house for 3 hours, however, during night, they seem to come back and we have to matt and vacuum the bed, steam iron the clothes before we wear them, vacuum the whole house, especially carpets, and two or three hot showers daily, as they get into your hair and clothing and sting. This is a daily routine and it is exhausting.
@@burt3907 - That’s correct. 160 F. I have went to war for bedbugs before and I know what it is to have to change my life for a bug. I used silicon dioxide powder mixed with rubbing alcohol to spray everything down with using a spray bottle. The alcohol doesn’t damage anything and it evaporates. The powder left behind scratches the coating off of their exoskeleton and dehydrates them to death. The bugs I had were immune to the professional spray treatments. I vacuumed up the silicone Dioxide when the bugs were gone. Know that most bugs have a reproductive life cycle about a week and need to feed within a month of hatching. They feed, lay eggs and the eggs hatch in about a week which means the cycle will continue.
The idea with the heaters is that they will dehydrate and die above a certain temperature. Most electric heaters have a thermostat which won’t allow the room to get hot enough. A propane burner will keep cranking the heat up is the idea. The temperature will need to stay constant for a few hours before it will penetrate all of the cracks where the bugs may be hiding. I would not stay inside while treating it. Maybe run a thermometer on a cord to the inside through a window and monitor the temperature from outside. Some colleges and universities have a program to help identify what bugs you are trying to kill. It sounds like you are dealing with something that is immune to the chemical sprays and you may have better results with a mechanical solution. Maybe you could use a wallpaper steamer or something similar to get live steam to treat the house with and steam is not going to be toxic to you when you’re using it. If the bugs have to feed on blood then you can move out until they starve. I’m just throwing the kitchen sink out there to see what you want to try because I don’t know what option will work best with your situation.
Bird mites are nightmare, I’m suffering for the past 2 wks already, it’s exhausting, no matter how much cleaning and spraying you do, it follows you.
My chicken is showung signs of lice 'n mites.
Dors it hurt the chicken
It is very uncomfortable for them.