[Bonniebean]

Working in the run today I spotted a couple of feathers from my gold laced wyandotte and when I looked she had a slightly pulled about area near her tail. I had a good look although she's still a little difficult to handle, then checked the other three girls. I found clear signs of lice eggs at the base of some feathers on two of them and so they got a liberal dose of Diatom before I disappeared pronto to the pet shop for Frontline. I gave each bird a drop although two had no signs of infestation at all, and interestingly it was the two who sleep together on the floor of the coop who had the eggs.
I am generous with diatom in their coop, bedding and dust bath but it obviously wasn't enough. Within an hour of me spotting them, the gold laced wyandotte laid an egg and she only did one yesterday - usually its every three days! In my fanciful way I imagined she was saying thank you for making me comfortable - hope it has!

[karlooben]

u did right by going out and getting the frontline , i tried lice powders an diatom and they never worked someone on here suggested frontline and they havent returned since 

[Bonniebean]

Cheers Looby, just not sure if I should have done one drop or two. I will check them again this afternoon which will be 48hrs, so they should be clear hopefully!

[karlooben]

sorry about the long wait for a reply , i gave my girls 2 drops on back of the neck each but the next time i am using the spray as it lasts longer i had to get 6 pipettes an that just about done my 19 girls at the time . thing is i got to some pretty fast as my very oldddddddddd shetland pony { massive thick coat } has gone and got lice again  so i now paranoid i will past them onto my girls { mite of done that last year i dont know }  and guess what i forgot to get his louse powder out the chicken house to take to the yard in the morning so i must remeber when i let the girls out at 6 am .

[Bonniebean]

Thanks again Looby - my best experience today was finding that the gold laced wyandotte was pulling her feathers because she sleeps under the perch and gets pooed on! This goes dry and she tries to pull it out, so that is what made me find the lice eggs. Unfortunately I didn't have gloves on at the time and my hands are raw with all the anti-bac scrubbing!!!