Re: Avermectin or permectrin

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Tsunsushi,I am confused by the name. Avermectins are a group of endectocides,  which include drugs such as ivermectin, selamectin, eprinomectin etc. they are made by fermentation by a species of Streptomyces soil bacteria.

I don't know about pigeon products by brand name. What is the active ingredient? How is it to be used on the pigeons? Avermectins (or milbemycines) inthe form in which I am familar, would be dangerous to bathe in. But maybe the product is different.

Assuming the mites in your area are not resistant to the drug, when given at the right dosage, the target species will be killed by feeding from the treated host. If your father's pigeons had red poultry mites (D.gallinae) it is entirely possible he might not know as these mites live mostly off the bird, living in dark places sch as cracks & crevices. The come out to feed off the bird mostly at night to feed. While not all mites leave the host in the morning, they would not be easy to spot. The best way to spot these mites would be to go out to the pigeon shed at night with a torch & look on the roosting places.

Best wishesKrysOn 7 May 2011 13:35, tsunsushi <tsunsushi@...> wrote:

 

My step dad uses this for his pigeons he breeds, to bathe in.

I just bought some and am looking online if it's bad to bathe pets in, or clothing etc. It does completely wipe out bird mites, though. He says his birds have no mites.

Anyone have any information on this?

-- They shut the road through the woods

Seventy years ago.

Weather and rain have undone it again,

And now you would never know

There was once a road through the woods

Before they planted the trees.

It is underneath the coppice and heath,

And the thin anemones.

Only the keeper sees

That, where the ring-dove broods,

And the badgers roll at ease,

There was once a road through the woods.

Yet, if you enter the woods

Of a summer evening late,

When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools

Where the otter whistles his mate.

(They fear not men in the woods,

Because they see so few)

You will hear the beat of a horse's feet,

And the swish of a skirt in the dew,

Steadily cantering through

The misty solitudes,

As though they perfectly knew

The old lost road through the woods….

But there is no road through the woods.

The Way Through the Woods - Rudyard Kipling

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> > My step dad uses this for his pigeons he breeds, to bathe in.

> > I just bought some and am looking online if it's bad to bathe pets in, or

> > clothing etc. It does completely wipe out bird mites, though. He says his

> > birds have no mites.

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> > Anyone have any information on this?

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> They shut the road through the woods

> Seventy years ago.

> Weather and rain have undone it again,

> And now you would never know

> There was once a road through the woods

> Before they planted the trees.

> It is underneath the coppice and heath,

> And the thin anemones.

> Only the keeper sees

> That, where the ring-dove broods,

> And the badgers roll at ease,

> There was once a road through the woods.

>

> Yet, if you enter the woods

> Of a summer evening late,

> When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools

> Where the otter whistles his mate.

> (They fear not men in the woods,

> Because they see so few)

> You will hear the beat of a horse's feet,

> And the swish of a skirt in the dew,

> Steadily cantering through

> The misty solitudes,

> As though they perfectly knew

> The old lost road through the woods….

> But there is no road through the woods.

> *

> The Way Through the Woods* - Rudyard Kipling

>

You do know that bird mites live on birds, right? My bites and crawling

sensations actually go with me everywhere I go. I'm starting to think I am

imagining this. I have found four weird looking things that look like bugs, all

brown and thin but I can't determine what they are. Too small to see that well.

The pigeons bathe in it, or they get back rubs with it. Bird mites can be seen

btw, as long as they're not in the immature stage anymore.