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no tellin  ;D ;D

 

must be fur yir toys ;D

[Guest]

 

must be fur yir toys ;D

 

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;Dnice one geordie, that means they will be clean when you get them back  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Guest]

 

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;Dnice one geordie, that means they will be clean when you get them back  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

;D ;D ;D yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Guest]

ARE LICE A SIGN OF HEALTH OR WHAT  

[THE FIFER]

ARE LICE A SIGN OF HEALTH OR WHAT  

 

 

no not really, i would'nt think, but does'nt mean ur birds are not healthy,

 

 

[Guest]

they only eat dead skin and a pigeon when in good health will shed loads of dead skin so plenty of feeding for lice to multiply  ;D ;D

[klinkley]

 

yes agree with you on this product klinkley, i posted about this a while back on another thread saying it was one of the best products there was for totally removing lice and other insects, if other folk are happy to have lice on their birds thats up to them, I dont want any lice on mine , the product does go under a different name now but still one of the best available.here is the new name it is under.

     

Vanhee Ungerzeifer Frei 11500

 

it was back in july when i posted this on a thread about moths in the loft in the fancy pigeons section

 

TAMMY_1       

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aye you

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Try a product by Van Hee called Ungerzeifer Frei this should kill anything in ur loft, and that includes ur birds if u don't follow the instructions carefully, but it is an excellent pigeon product, I use this every year and very seldom ever see anything unwanted in the lofts, can be bought very easily from most pigeon supppliers

 

 

 

 

 

Much better than powder getting up your snozzle.  I read in BHW about putting vinegar in their bath water to rid the birds of lice, tried it and it doesn't work.  I shall stick to the Van Verminex ( or whatever it's called these days).  It costs about £10 a bottle.

[Guest TAMMY_1]

 

Much better than powder getting up your snozzle.  I read in BHW about putting vinegar in their bath water to rid the birds of lice, tried it and it doesn't work.  I shall stick to the Van Verminex ( or whatever it's called these days).  It costs about £10 a bottle.

 

aye, have used this the past 3 years and would never dream of using anything else,  see we can agree on something  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[klinkley]

 

aye, have used this the past 3 years and would never dream of using anything else,  see we can agree on something  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

;D yes miracles do happen eh ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Guest TAMMY_1]

 

;D yes miracles do happen eh ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

aye can agree on something that is a first class product that has been tried and tested and proven to work,

[Guest]

Interesting thread.  

 

Don't know if lice are a problem for birds, but it is known that they remove them during preening, so seems the birds think they're a problem anyway. Rather not have them, and my problem with them is I don't know what they might carry: bit like black rat and bubonic plague, wasn't the rats it was the rats' tics that carried it.

 

Household fly sprays are just permethrin-based insecticides, same stuff as most of the pigeon lice/mite sprays.

 

Used to use vinegar in bath water but stopped it. Vinegar + water is a well known household cleaner: might be good for getting paint off the glass, trouble was it was lifting the skin off my hands too.  :-/

 

  

 

 

[Guest]

From other threads, for example on quill mite, have been wondering about systemic action insecticides like ivermectin, which eventually get into the birds body fluids and kill insects which feed on them, like quill mite.

 

I use garlic water in the bath and in the drinker, up till now for different jobs. But garlic doesn't know what job its there to do.  ;D  My question sounds stupid but is there any reason NOT to believe that garlic in the bath water kills insects,  so garlic water consumed by the birds will also kill any 'internal' insects?

 

Reason I ask, I've one particular pigeon YB kicking & stamping during the day as if it is being bitten by something, but like others I've watched, it doesn't seem to know where the culprit is? Beak goes to underside of rump, inside both wings, topside of rump, outside of both wings - usually in that order - which makes me think that its either internal, or something non-insect like a human stitch?

 

Mentioned ivermectin because I was about to give it a try [harka-mectin] but Tammy has posted elsewhere that its not to be used during moult, so ruled out for 3 months.

 

Any ideas folks?

 

 

[Guest]

fleas thats what iot is bruno lad fleas aint red mite as the only come out at night

[Back garden fancier]

Once had chickens that had red mite, first they stopped laying then one or two looked ill. Final clue was they wouldn't go in at night. When I spotted the red mite, I've never seen anything like it. There were thousands all crammed in the cracks near to where the chickens perched at night. Duramitex sorted it out, and lesson learned!

[polly]

Have given a few birds away recently and all happy with good condition.

I use garlic in drinking water most days,also in the baths with salt, 2 or 3 x weekly.

I use Jeyes fluid ( to recommendations) for a deep clean which gets rid of red spider amongst others, spring and autumn.

[Guest]

pigeons fit and healthy and have the greasy silky feathering then they wont have any problem of lice mites neva seen lice on any pigeon with silky feathering own up who has  

[weecunny]

put salt in ur bath water for the birds that will keep  the lice down

[Elvan Willgrass]

What is the best thing for quill mite, the ones that attach themselves right on the quill and not the feather lice?

[sammy]

put the feathers under boiling water  

[chickadee]

What is the best thing for quill mite, the ones that attach themselves right on the quill and not the feather lice?

 

Never seen them before, what do they look like? are they like feather lice or different in shape?

[Tony C]

They look like tiny bits of dirt running along the quill.

 

An old fancier friend I know dips his pigeons in a solution of 15ml of Duramitex to a bucket of water to get rid of them. Not tried it myself.

[chickadee]

They look like tiny bits of dirt running along the quill.

 

An old fancier friend I know dips his pigeons in a solution of 15ml of Duramitex to a bucket of water to get rid of them. Not tried it myself.

 

Thanks must look out for that. ;D

[ALF]

DIP THEM IN CHLORCARB AND THEY WILL ALL BE GONE IN A FEW DAYS

[Guest WINGS 04]

DIP THEM IN CHLORCARB AND THEY WILL ALL BE GONE IN A FEW DAYS

 

SPOT ON ALF WILL BE DOING MY BIRDS TOMMOROW

[Guest karl adams]

quill lice