For hen lice.TO THE EDITORS: I am very much interested in the helpful things I read in your valuable paper. I want to tell my dear friends who raise poultry poultry, domesticated fowl kept primarily for meat and eggs; including birds of the order Galliformes, e.g., the chicken, turkey, guinea fowl, pheasant, quail, and peacock; and natatorial (swimming) birds, e.g., the duck and goose. that all they have to do to keep hen lice out is to take coal ashes and just give them a throw in the hen house so they will dust all over the inside of it, once every three or four weeks during the spring and fall season. I am sure the fowls will not be troubled any more. That is all I do and I never have hen lice. I also put some coal ashes on the ground for the flock flock 1. a group of one species of animal or bird which eats or travels or is kept together, e.g. flock of sheep, of wild geese. 2. wool or cotton particles or debris used as stuffing or packing. to dust in. Hoping this will be helpful to many readers. --Mrs. Ruth H. Wilsy, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Our own scheme of using ashes for a dust bath is to mix them with road dust and set in a big shallow This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since October 2007. Shallow means not very deep. box on the hen house floor. That keeps the dust bath dry, which makes it much more damaging to the lice and comforting to the hens. --The Editors. |
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