ISO tips, tricks and words of encouragement for our mite infestation
I’m feeling incredibly defeated as a chicken mama right now. This morning we woke up to one of our chickens (named Nugget) incredibly lethargic with a very pale comb, not moving, eating or drinking. We gave her some high in iron supplement from tractor supply and have treated her with a permethrin spray. We have dunked our other 16 chickens in a permethrin 10 bath and blow dried them all out. The coop got a really good power wash and permethrin bath as well and our entire run got covered in first Saturday lime. They also got a new dust bath with diatomaceous earth (I know people have opinions on this stuff) and FSL, top soil & sand. If I had wood ash I would’ve put it in there. Everything got cleaned… lots of these chickens are only a couple to a few months old (we got them from a previous home) and our sick chicken is one of our OG’s. Welp. At the end of all this cleaning, my sick chicken has worms. Which explains her behavior. But now everyone has to get treated tomorrow for worms. Anyone have any tips, tricks or words of encouragement? We’re so exhausted from this.