If your birds have been diagnosed with Scaly mites, you will also need to assess your nutrition program, because these mites attack weak gene flocks as well as birds fed a nutritionally weak diet. As they burrow, their excretions pushed to the skin surface develop a honeycomb appearance when they burrow around the face (Budgerigars) and a tassel-like appearance when they burrow on the feet and legs (Canaries). These mites burrow into the epithelium layer of your bird’s non-feathered skin and feed on keratin. S76 can also be used to treat Scaly Face (Knemidokoptes ssp) mites. During the molting season treatment should be 2 consecutive days every 3 weeks. For flocks housed outdoors with lower temperatures in the Winter months, treatment can be done every 3 months. Thereafter it is recommended that the flock be treated for 2 consecutive days each month when ambient temperatures are above 70 degrees F (approx. The initial in-water treatment for air-sac mites with S76 is 2 consecutive days each week for 3 weeks in a row. Therefore a complete cleaning of the aviary must be done on the 2 nd day of S76 treatment with a pyrethrum based insecticide. Extensive laboratory studies by Bell (1996) suggest that transmission of this mite occurs by adult non-pregnant females that migrate out of the nares onto the head plumage, and eventually into a new host. Transmission of air-sac mites can be thru direct contact of adults feeding regurgitated food to their offspring or by courtship feeding between adults. When a large population of adult air-sac mites is killed at the same time, the dead bodies can block the respiratory tract causing suffocation to the bird. The products (S76 and Scatt) available to bird keepers to kill these mites cause no harm to the nymph stage, so it is important that a schedule of treatments be maintain on a regular basis to keep the adult population of air-sac mites in low numbers. Their maturity and activity is triggered by high temperatures and stressful periods for the birds. However this nymph stage does not always mature immediately and can remain in dormancy within the respiratory tract for extended periods of time. ![]() Laboratory experiments with the air-sac mite indicate that the life cycle (from egg to adult) can take place in 6 days. Studies have found that the pregnant adult female mite produces eggs that hatch within the female and are then born alive as nymphs. The 2 species that are most susceptible to these mites are Lady Gouldian Finches and Canaries. Your birds can also bathe in S76 to kill any external parasites crawling on them, but a pyrethrum based insecticide must also be used on the 2 nd day of S76 treatment throughout their environment to eliminate these parasites from the aviary or a waiting army of mites will crawl back onto the birds from their hiding places.Īir-sac mites live in the respiratory tract (trachea, air-sacs, bronchi and lungs) of birds. In other words, any mite that lives inside of a bird or will bite your birds and suck blood will be killed by S76. ![]() S76 can be used internally to kill Red Mites (Dermanyssus sp.), Depluming Mites (Epidermoptic mites), blood parasites (Microfilaria) and Air-sac Mites (Sternostoma tracheacolum). Topical or IN WATER treatment for all mite infestations
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