I noticed this funny spot under the chin of one of my BLRW boys, took some pictures, and posted it on my go-to chicken forum. Oddly enough I couldn't find lice egg pictures that I thought looked like mine on google, so my friends at BYC helped me out.
Chicken lice - confirmed. Crap.
I am going to bet it came from the THOUSANDS of stupid doves and pigeons invading my backyard. We are hoping to double the size of the coop/run soon so we won't have to let them out. That will help keep the wild birds away, but I'm having the almost daily problem of sparrows getting stuck in the Serama coop... hmm. I need my BB gun back... Imma kill all y'all...
There are always a million different ways people online will tell you to use.
Because mine only have the eggs on their chins I think I'm going to try vaseline on the eggs to try to remove the eggs from the feathers, and then bathe in wood ash (like the plain old stuff from burning wood). This sounds like the cheapest first attempt to rid my feathery friends of their lice.
Lice geared coop cleaning seems to be a topic of debate as well. Half say the lice aren't really a coop problem as they can't live off the chicken, others are hardcore cleaning and disposing of everything in their coops. I actually *just* cleaned my coop yesterday - swept the poop of the top of the house and the crates they perch on and raked all the chicken poop out, so I'll just leave that alone for now.
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