The increasing quantity of louses on hens creates serious threat to their health and life. Application of a number of medicinal and folk remedies for treatment and prevention of poultry will help to get rid of parasites.
Danger of defeat by parasites of poultry
Appearance of blood-sicking parasites in hens at once affects not only oviparous ability of a bird, but also quality of meat. If on chicken rather small population of louses lives, then visible deteriorations in efficiency it can not be observed, but if the quantity of parasites on a bird is high, the set of noticeable symptoms appears at once. The loss of appetite, lack of activity, emergence of the damaged sites of skin, etc. belongs to symptoms of obvious defeat of poultry louses. The danger of defeat of hens also is that louses are carriers of very dangerous diseases, but also, the damaged sites of skin where parasites most often take blood, quite often inflame because of defeat by pathogenic bacteria. Critical increase in number of parasites can lead to death of a bird.
Extermination of the louses living on hens
There are many folk remedies which are considered as effective, but actually by means of them not to achieve elimination of insects parasites. Folk remedies can become excellent prophylactic, but not the main medicine. In this case it is important to approach correctly veterinary medicines which will allow to destroy louses without harm for poultry. The majority of medicine is sold in the ampoules containing the concentrated substance and also sprays. The list of medicines from chicken louses is quite wide. It is possible to carry to effective remedies: "Leopard", Neotomazan, Frontline and some other. When using chemical medicines it is very important to study the instruction and not to exceed a dosage. As a rule, medicines from louses are applied on hens pointwise: under wings, on a breast, a back, under a nape, on legs. It is especially convenient to use against chicken louses medicines in sprays. The full course of treatment can take several weeks for which processing of birds will be carried out from time to time.
Measures of prevention of repeated infection of a bird
Idle time of processing of birds can be insufficiently completely to bring louses. The thing is that the eggs of louses which remained on a laying and a perch in the hen house are very steady and can lead to repeated infection of hens. To destroy louses and their eggs which can be in the room of the hen house it is necessary to undertake a package of measures. First, it is necessary to remove completely all laying which is available in the hen house. Secondly, it is necessary to clean perches and poles. All stock and also walls and a floor in the hen house it is necessary to process medicine "Butoks. Further walls need to be whitewashed lime. It is necessary to add a tansy, a camomile to a new laying odorous, a Labrador tea, a bitter wormwood, a dry tops of vegetable of potatoes and a tomato. All these plants frighten off parasites. Besides, in the hen house it is necessary to establish the container with the wood ashes displaced with sulfur and sand. As a rule, hens with pleasure bathe in sol, thereby cleaning feathers from fat. Mix for bathing will allow to create additional protection against parasites.