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Combating blood lice in chickens

• Clean the cage thoroughly, repeat this regularly
• Dry the cage well, use a good ground cover. Tobacco chips have a repellent smell.
• Cover holes in the mesh to prevent pests or other birds from transmitting the lice
• Sprinkle Hemexcide diatomaceous earth in the cage and in the cracks  , do this weekly. Eggs can be eaten.
• Offer the diatomaceous earth in a  dust pan rim  for the chickens to bathe in
• Feed the chickens well, they need to get stronger. Use Mercator Herberals for this , Herberals is a mineral complex that you can easily add to the drinking water.

Recognize and treat red mites in chickens. Completely eradicating red mites remains difficult, so it is advisable to buy a dust bath edge so that the chickens can stand in fabrics with Hemexcide. It is also important to regularly spread the diatomaceous earth in the coop. A red mite can hide for years and when the conditions are good again, the red mite will reappear. Because we have many years of experience in hobby farming and with the professional poultry farmer and have seen many agents pass by from fipronil to nicotine, carboleum etc. etc., we are convinced that diatomaceous earth is the most suitable agent for combating red mites. No chemicals, pure nature. Easy to use and relatively cheap: You can buy it here:  SHOP

 

How do I prevent blood lice in chickens?

• Clean the cage regularly  and make sure it is not too damp.
• Make the environment unattractive, focus  on prevention, especially in spring and summer.
• Mercator Tobacco Chips , lice do not like this smell.
• Dust bath with Hemexcide+,  this is our diatomaceous earth tobacco powder mix.
• Mercator Whitewash powder : Keeps the cage dry.
• Place a test stick in the cage and check regularly for lice. Be on time if the lice flare up again in warm weather.
• Don’t buy a second-hand chicken coop that has had red mites in it.
• Make sure that no other birds can enter the cage.

Find blood ice in the chicken coop in time?

Except when you come out of the chicken coop and have an itch, this can already be an important indication, you can also make a test tube. A blood louse test shows that there are blood lice in the chicken coop. For the blood louse test you need a plastic tube and a piece of paper/cardboard and some grease or glue stick. You put some grease or glue stick on the paper/cardboard. You roll up the paper/cardboard and slide it into a plastic tube. You mount the tube at the bottom of a stick during the day. If there are blood lice in the chicken coop, they will be found in the blood louse trap the next morning. Remove the paper/cardboard from the tube and look on the paper to see if there are blood lice wandering around in the coop.