My budgies are constantly scratching themselves, Ive used Scatt to treat the mites on the face and feat, Ive also used a mite and lice spray on my birds and they are still scratching all the time, is this normal? they are not moulting any feathers, are there any alternatives i can use to get rid of mites and lice ?? or what else can it be?

If you have treated with scatt and mite spray you have got any mites they have. Its got to be something else.

If you have treated with scatt and mite spray you have got any mites they have. Its got to be something else.

 

any suggestions on what i can do?

A friend of mine checked em today and told me they might still have mites, what can i do?? am i using scatt and the mite spray wrong??

I don't use either of them. I use spot on Ivermectin. You get it from the vets. One drop on the back of the neck... problem solved.

A friend of mine checked em today and told me they might still have mites, what can i do?? am i using scatt and the mite spray wrong??

Your friend must be wrong........sorry. You have treated with SCATT which is ivermectin or should I say Moxidectin and you have treated with mite spray. Avomectin and Moxydectin treatments are similar to Ivermectin

Both of which will kill any mites.

You might well be confusing normal preening and scratching with presence of mites.

Dont get too carried away or you will overdose and poison your birds.

 

 

SCATT http://www.thebirdcottage.com/s-scatt.asp

Edited April 28, 201114 yr by **KAZ**

A friend of mine checked em today and told me they might still have mites, what can i do?? am i using scatt and the mite spray wrong??

Your friend must be wrong........sorry. You have treated with SCATT which is ivermectin or should I say Moxidectin and you have treated with mite spray. Avomectin and Moxydectin treatments are similar to Ivermectin

Both of which will kill any mites.

You might well be confusing normal preening and scratching with presence of mites.

Dont get too carried away or you will overdose and poison your birds.

 

 

SCATT http://www.thebirdco...com/s-scatt.asp

 

Ah okay

How long after applying Scatt or using the spray does it start to give effect?

Today i went to a pet-store that Ive been going to all my life to and i really trust what they tell me, and the owner told me that my budgies might just have dry skin due to the environment and that i could mist em with a spray bottle and also that if i had changed there food that could be another factor to them being itchy