Buckeye with mites

[westlakej]

I have had this buckeye cock that has had mites for a long time. I have used dust, adams, and those little capsuls that they sell on eggbid called Debugger/Dewormer and nothing works. I am going to try ivermectym but how many cc's should I give him. I herd 3 but dont want to kill him. His face is really pale and hes normally always first to eat but lately he hasnt. He is seperated from the others.

Thanks
Jeremy

[micofwis]

I use an eyedropper for Ivermectin. I put a couple of drops on the skin behind the neck, and a drop or two above and below the vent. It is absorbed through the skin. I have no problems using this method, and it works.

[radman2014]

you will probably want to treat the rest of your birds at the same time. Unlike lice, mites can live while not living on a host. The mites from your Buckeye can spread to other birds and may have already. I also use ivermectin on the chicken's skin with good success.

[Evy]

If wild birds...sparrows, starlings, etc. have access to your coop, they also carry mites ( as well as eating your feed ). As mentioned, you need to treat all your birds & clean & spray roosts, nest boxes & floors. Separating one won't help.

[westlakej]

Thanks everyone. I will do that to everyone in the morning. I did notice some of my buckeye hens had a few too. And I have herd that dark breeds get mites easyer.

Jeremy Westlake

[Evy]

And I have herd that dark breeds get mites easyer.


No, they all get them, you just notice them easier on light birds.

[Neil E. Grassbaugh]

Some birds just seem to attract mites more than others. No explanation to this.
In our barn- Leghorn bantam males get them bad. Females seldom. RIRs are about the same. Wyandotte males sometimes, females almost never. WhiteRock males are like mite magnets. females not as bad.

I use and like the systemic paristitides (Ivo whatever, Cydektin and the like).I also belive that you can experience bug resistance to any one systemic and therefore must change it when effectiveness wears off.

When birds do get a bad case of mites (or lice) we find that a dose of systemic large enough to knock the bugs off them will also make the birds goofy. My advice would be to get some 5% Sevin dust (you are most likely to find it in the garden section of any store with one) and kill the masses of bugs with it. Then use the systemic for long term, effective and easy control.

We put the pour on systemics on the upper breast under the wings where there are no feathers attached to the skin. This area has lots of veins to aid in speedy absorption of the product.

Depending on the typpe of mites you have they could be premise based and treatment of roosts especially may be beneficial. Liquid malathion is good for this.

By the way Jeremy as a lifelong resident of the state of Ohio I would like to point out to you that the word Buckeye should always start with a capital letter. In most cases you should really capitalize all letters of the word BUCKEYE, no matter what it refers to. University of Michigan football fans especially are expected to observe this respectful custom.

[Duk]

Kentucky residents have a tendency to capitalize bUcKeye differently.

[Neil E. Grassbaugh]

LOLIs the difference capitalization or spelling?

I hoped this would get something stirred up here in the dull days of January!

Can't wait to hear what tart replies my Michigan freinds come up with.

[Bob308]

I have noticed that Ohioans use a lot of capital letters......

I have also noticed that college rivalries are left at the door at poultry shows, which is nice. It could get nasty. Everybody wears their colors but I have heard very little trash talking.

Unless it is about Showgirls or frizzle modern games.

Bob

[Wyandotteman]

The best thing I have ever used for mites in Frontline plus spray. One or two sprays and the mites are gone for good mainly because I think you break the egg/adult cycle of hatching.

Prior to applying Frontline plus I wash the birds vent under a strong stream of water in the bathtub and lather in some Adams Flea and Tick spray.

I learned this solution a few years ago talking to Bonnie Sallee in California.

It really works and you only have to deal with it one time. I have tried pourable Ivermectin on my White Wyandotte bantams without much success.

I agree with Neil that certain birds seem more susceptible than others. I struggle with mites more often than not in the winter.

[westlakej]

Thanks Dan and everyone else, I have tried almost every possible thing mentioned over time but I couldnt get anything to work for me. Finally we washed him three times and hosed him off in a sink with a sprayer for three hours and they are mostly gone. I am going to put some drops of ivermectym on his body to prevent them.

There were patches of them that were two inches across of solid black mites. Now there is only a few to be seen.

Thank You
Jeremy Westlake

[goosedragon]

Neil, wouldn't "BUCKEYE with mites" be offensive to people that think BUCKEYE should be capitalized?
They might think Lousy LONGHORNS is Ok though?
Myself I went to a school that played in it's first bowl ever this year so I never caught football fever,~gd

[jwm1960]

Has anyone tried Elector Insecticide on their birds? It's made for livestock but works great on other animals as well for insect control. Last year Frontline wasn't doing any good at controlling the fleas on my wife's dogs so we tried Elector. It works great plus it's cheaper than Frontline. A one liter bottle of it cost less than $30.00 and will make around 17 gallons when diluted with water (2 ounces per gallon). My wife actually cut that in half and only used 1 ounce per gallon on her dogs with good results. The active ingredient is derived from a naturally occurring soil dwelling bacterium called Saccharopolyspora spinosa, a rare actinomycete reportedly collected from soil in an abandoned rum distillery on a Caribbean Island in 1982 by a scientist on vacation. It's not harmful to animals or humans but deadly on insects.

[Bresis]

Mites may be a secondary problem. I had a hen with them and her problem wasn't the mites (lice actually, mites are invisible to the naked eye). She wasn't dusting because of another condition and that's why she was getting plagued by pests when the healthy hens were not - or not as bad. Strangely Ivermectin didn't work for her, her case was too acute. I ended up dusting the heck out of her and that finally stopped the lice. Good luck!