In the countryside, almost every family raises chickens. Many people who raise chickens have found a problem, that is, there will be some small bugs on the chickens. These bugs parasitize chicken feathers, making chickens sick and sucking blood. So what is a chicken with a lot of little bugs? How to get rid of these little bugs?
What is a chicken with a lot of little bugs?
There are many small bugs on the chicken body are chicken lice, this disease is mainly caused by the longhorn plumer lice and the short-horned plume lice family, the feather lice mainly rely on biting the skin feather debris, fine down, feather sheath and sucking blood for a living, which will cause poultry to appear emaciated, itchy, irritable, production performance and other symptoms.
The high incidence of chicken lice is in the autumn, but it occurs all year round, especially when the breeding temperature reaches 25 degrees Celsius, it is very easy to infect, chicken lice hide in loose dry manure, egg-laying box gaps, perches, walls and other places during the day, and breed in these places, at night will go to the chicken to bite, resulting in a restless situation in the chicken.
How to eliminate lice from chickens?
Chicken lice are mainly divided into body lice and feather lice, which are common parasites that parasitize the skin and feathers of chickens. Its reproductive ability is very strong, in a breeding season a pair of chicken lice can breed more than 100,000 offspring, think of this state full of chicken lice, the whole body goosebumps. Although chicken lice do not cause direct death of chickens, the impact on the flock cannot be ignored.
Body lice: Body lice is a kind of dark action guy, during the day will generally leave the chicken body, hide under the wall cracks, bedding and other dim places, only at night when the chickens rest, or in the light of the chicken coop, will climb to the chicken body, close to the skin, suck the chicken's blood. Over time or the number of lice is relatively large, it is easy to cause chickens to be anemic, lose appetite, mental atrophy, and slowly lose weight until death.
Feather lice: The feather lice, as the name suggests, has been parasitizing the feathers of the chicken body, leaving the chicken body for a few days will die, because once it leaves the chicken body, there is no food, it will directly starve to death. The food of the feather lice is the feathers and dander of the chicken, once the chicken is infected with the feather lice, it will be itchy all over the body, jumping and jumping, and the serious will also peck at its own feathers and skin, our common chicken hair removal is the reason, the pecked skin is also easy to fester and inflame, which causes various diseases. Feather lice can also cause chickens to grow slowly, and even threaten the safety of chickens.
Body lice will also run to people to suck human blood, although it is not painful, but it is extremely itchy. In the past, chicken lice were killed in the countryside by using enemy insects, but the effect was not good, and it was not possible to completely kill chicken lice, and it was easy to poison chickens. Now the best way to kill chicken lice is to use mothballs, crush them into powder, and sprinkle them directly inside the chicken coop, or wipe the chicken body so that the chicken lice have nowhere to hide. Sprinkling some mothball powder in the chicken coop can also prevent the growth of chicken lice.