lice trouble .

i thoroughly cleaned my shed about 3 weeks ago using poultry shield and battles black disenfectant and sprinkled diatom about ,i also powdered the hens with diatom , i also put diatom on them about a week ago
i cleaned out earlier tonight and the lice were running up the walls 100's of them , so i sprayed with the disenfectant and threw diatom on the walls and repowdered the hens again . i am thinking about limeing the walls on the inside of the shed because a neighbour of mine did it in his concrete shed , i have mentioned this in a thread before but i am wondering is it legal to do so and are the results good , i know many pigeon fanciers used this cure years ago in my area but those fella's have died off , i was wondering if any of you guys use lime because the costly powders are not working great at the moment .

That's exactly right TMG.  Live live ON the birds rther than in the accomodation.

Are you sure it's not red mite ?  They are grey before they have fed.

apparently unless you have an igloo (igloo?) they are rotton to get rid of,

I think you mean an Eglu

Quote from: TMG on June 28, 2009, 23:03

apparently unless you have an igloo (igloo?) they are rotton to get rid of,

I think you mean an Eglu

that's what i said an Igloo eglu i don't have one, but i have heard they are really good and worth the money.......
 dammit a fly just drowned itself in my glass of wine now i'll have to go get the whole bottle..................

When you treat anywhere for lice or mites, you need to do it again in two weeks time to kill all of the eggs that have probably hatched to beat the cycle.

Michelle