Eglu Cube Coop For Sale

[Hens@HalfMoonLane]

On Saturday night I examined the inside of my Eglu as I do with a torch every couple of nights and to my horror it was crawling with small woodlouse type insects but about 10X smaller. I think they were biting insects as they were a bit juicy with blood when I squashed them. They did little jumps but nothing like a cat or dog flea. They are definately not red mites. I googled them and think they may be chicken mites.

 

My hens x 4 are Flubenvetted, were ivermectined 2 weeks before and on examination are clean of all lice and other creepy crawlies. I clean out the Eglu each week and dust with red mite powder.

 

I jet washed the Eglu, sprayed the hens with Johnsons mite spray and sprayed flea spray under where the Eglu was. These things are living in the cracks in the soil and emerged to keel over after I sprayed.

 

What do you think they are? They weren't there last night when I checked - has anyone come across these themselves and have I done enough to get rid of them?

[Plum]

No but sounds like red mite. I use Poultry Sheild to clean the house. You could spray the ground with it as well.

[The Dogmother]

I'd use Total Mite Kill Concentrate on the housing - it does exactly what it says on the bottle

 

Dust it all with Buz Busters powder when the housing is dry.

[Hens@HalfMoonLane]

Thanks Claret and Plum

 

I've been out tonight and they are back albeit fewer. Def not red mite but I'm sure they are fleas. Strnge thing is they are only walking on the housing and are not on the hens, I've given them all a thorough examination.

 

Is there such a thing as a chicken flea and what will get rid of them more than I have already tried. I'm struggling to find a similar image on the www.

 

Ta

[The Dogmother]

There is a small sort of louse-looking critter that seems to prowl around on any plastic thing in the garden; it doesn't seem to be chicken related and is easily dealt with by Total Mite Kill stuff.

[Jools]

My hens x 4 are Flubenvetted, were ivermectined 2 weeks before and on examination are clean of all lice and other creepy crawlies. I clean out the Eglu each week and dust with red mite powder.

 

Not only will the Ivermectin ensure that any biting critters are killed, it's a wormer too so you shouldn't really need to use flubenvet as well. The downside is that there's a two week egg withdrawl period though.

[Chucky Mama]

My hens x 4 are Flubenvetted, were ivermectined 2 weeks before and on examination are clean of all lice and other creepy crawlies. I clean out the Eglu each week and dust with red mite powder.

 

Not only will the Ivermectin ensure that any biting critters are killed, it's a wormer too so you shouldn't really need to use flubenvet as well. The downside is that there's a two week egg withdrawl period though.

 

Whilst it will kill most worms, Ivermectin won't kill tapeworm so for thorough worming, fluvenvet is still required.

[Hens@HalfMoonLane]

There is a small sort of louse-looking critter that seems to prowl around on any plastic thing in the garden; it doesn't seem to be chicken related and is easily dealt with by Total Mite Kill stuff.

 

Hope this is the case, I'll give this stuff ago. I dusted them with louse powder tonight and there are none visible just now when I've checked. Still confused, they jump like fleas but theres not a single in on any of them I gave them a real good examination earlier tonight.

[Jools]

My hens x 4 are Flubenvetted, were ivermectined 2 weeks before and on examination are clean of all lice and other creepy crawlies. I clean out the Eglu each week and dust with red mite powder.

 

Not only will the Ivermectin ensure that any biting critters are killed, it's a wormer too so you shouldn't really need to use flubenvet as well. The downside is that there's a two week egg withdrawl period though.

 

Whilst it will kill most worms, Ivermectin won't kill tapeworm so for thorough worming, fluvenvet is still required.

 

Is it okay to use both flubenvet and ivermectin together though?

[Egluntyne]

Personally, I wouldn't administer them both in the same week, based on nothing more than a hunch that is probably not a good idea to give 2 meds at the same time, where it can be avoided, although I realise that the Ivermectin remains in the system and that the Flubenvet acts on the worms and not the hen.

[Chucky Mama]

If your hens have been recently treated with Ivermectin and are wormed up to date I would be inclined to identify the insects in your housing before getting too excited. By all means dust or spray the housing with a suitable product but I personally wouldn't throw any more medication at the hens until I had clear evidence of what is in the housing. My trays have been full of small black crittter sover the last week but they are poo eaters and are not any danger to the hens.

[Jools]

Thanks both, that's what I thought. I know that some people rely on Ivermectin to worm, so it's good to know about tapeworm.

 

I have those very same poo flies in my coops and I remember getting in a panic the first time I saw them!

[The Dogmother]

You seem to get more 'poo flies' (fruit flies I think) when it is damp, so I keep the Aubiose topped up to keep it dry in there.

 

I have always been advised to use both jools. I am told that the Eprinex is the only ivermectin product that is broad spectrumed enough to cover both lice and NFM

[Jools]

I must admit I notice them when the weather turns warm and dry, they seem to disappear when the rain starts. Needless to say I don't see an awful lot of them, even in our so-called summer.

[The Dogmother]

There are loads living in my wormery... that's why I get Rosie to feed s"Ooops, word censored!"s to the worms!