While picking peaches at Aunt Leone's last week, she mentioned having to treat her chickens for lice (or poultry mites). I had noticed my chickens losing a few feathers so I took at look at her chickens which were pretty sad looking and thought mine were probably fine. So fast forward to this morning. I notices a sore on Hannah's back and thought "oh no". So while Bailey and I were on our walk, we stopped by at Wilco. I bought Poultry dust and went home. Read the instructions, and if I had 100 chickens the directions might be helpful. So I called my enabler Aunt Leone to find out what to do.
Bailey looks so excited to be helping her near invalid mother. |
So after what I can only describe as being on a wild goose, I mean chicken race, I finally caught them all, one by one. |
Bailey dusted them and me down. I can safely say if I had mites, the pesticide coating my skin will now take care of it. |
3 comments:
That was so funny, kids dont you just love them. Now sorry to tell you this but if you had waited until nightfall the chooks would of gone back to roost and it would of been easy to just pick them up and give them a good dusting.
Oh Angela, but wouldn't that have made a boring post............Just kidding, I will remember that for next time. Darn it if I don't always find the hardest way to do things.
Haha - I was going to say the same thing as Angela! I noticed one of our girls looking oddly listless a week ago, and contacted the breeder who said that we should dust them for mites. We waited till they were roosting then hubby grabbed them and turned them upside down while I dusted (much to their disgust!!)
Cate
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