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*** Prayer Club ***| My cold is gone! YAY!!! | 
Sugar1Loaf2 & Lightning | | 2014-03-29 01:26:01 | | That's great, Sugar!
Horses, did you do anything to get rid of them? My chickens have little gray bug-like things in their feathers but when one gets on me I just wipe it off. . .what do your lice look like? | 
Nat2 & The Price of Valor | | 2014-03-29 03:43:16 | | | Thanks nat! |
Sugar1Loaf2 & Lightning | | 2014-03-29 19:51:45 | | | Yes, I know who you were talking to but chicken lice is normally brown or gray and is much bigger then human head lice. Also aren't you in 4-H? You could go to poultry meet even if your not showing birds and ask them to help you get the bugs off. Have any of your birds died lately? |
Horses1201 & Firefly | | 2014-03-29 19:58:10 | | Hi Nat & Horses
Here is a suggestion for the chickens. You can rid them of lice by washing them.
Use Ivory Snow powdered laundry soap. You want a very very mild soap for this.
Fill two buckets with warm (bathwater temperature) water about to the level of the chickens neck.
Put some Ivory into the bucket and slosh it around until it is dissolved. Do not use too much. About 2 tablespoons for a 1 gallon bucket is right.
Then capture your chicken. Calm it down by holding it. Then gently submerge it feet first in the bucket that has soap up to its neck. Do not submerge its head. The chicken will struggle at first, but then realize you are not going to hurt it and generally it will calm down then.
Gently rub its body, making sure that all the feathers get soaked, especially under the wings and around the vent.
Keep it in the soapy water for one minute. This drowns all the lice.
Then take the chicken out of the soapy water and do the same thing with the clear water bucket, rinsing the soap back out of its feathers for one minute. You will see the lice floating in the rinse water, I usually change that water after every chicken or two.
Then take the bird out of the rinse water and dry it gently, rubbing the feathers in the direction they grow. Pat as much water off the chicken as you can. Put the chicken in a cage in a warm place until it dries completely, usually a couple of hours.
DO NOT PUT THE CHICKEN IN A COLD PLACE UNTIL IT IS DRY OR IT WILL GET SICK!!!!!!!!
The chicken will then be lice-free. While your chickens are drying, clean their roosts off with soap and water, and change all the litter in their nesting boxes to prevent reinfestation.
That is a simple problem to fix, the trickiest part is waiting for a warm day to do it.
Happy spring!
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Jane Crandal & JB | | 2014-03-29 20:10:03 | | | I now someone that did that... It works really well. Make sure you clean the coop super good. They didn't the first time and had to do it all over again! (They had 20 chickens) |
Horses1201 & Firefly | | 2014-03-30 01:12:00 | | I'm not in 4-H. And, no. . .none of them have died. Though Shawn did disappear for a while and came back with a swollen wing joint.
Thanks, Jane! I'll have to try that! |
Nat2 & The Price of Valor | | 2014-03-31 22:51:34 | | Dragon,
How is your sister? |
Sugar1Loaf2 & Lightning | | 2014-04-01 17:47:28 | | | Opps, sorry. I got you mixed up with a different player. :| Good luck! |
Horses1201 & Firefly | | 2014-04-01 17:52:36 | | | Thanks, Horses! 2.0, our rooster, bit me last night. He's pretty annoying. Right now we have three roosters, Joseph, Midas, and 2.0, who is the big cheese around the yard. |
Nat2 & The Price of Valor | | 2014-04-01 18:38:57 | |
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