How to Treat Stick Fast Fleas With Olive Oil

Poultry is often infested with stick fast fleas. These reddish brown parasites cause blood loss, illness and even death in poultry. You should exterminate stick fast fleas as soon as you detect their presence in poultry. They appear reddish brown and smaller than other fleas and you can find them all over the body and head of chickens.

Things You'll Need

• Oil dropper
• Olive Oil
• Tissue paper
• Disposable bowl
• Suitable insecticide
• Sprayer

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Instructions

• 1

  Fill a dropper with olive oil. Put the oil all over the body of the affected chicken until the body is completely covered with oil. The oil will smother the stick fast flea and they will drop off easily.

• 2

  Wipe the chicken with a tissue to remove any fleas left on the body.

• 3

  Pour olive oil in a disposable bowl. Dip your fingers in the oil. Rub the head and eyelids of the chicken with the olive oil. If stick fast fleas get into the eyes of chickens they can cause blindness. Olive oil will not irritate the eyes of the chickens.

• 4

  Clean the poultry house and spray insecticide to prevent further infestation and to remove any stick fast fleas residing in the area.

• 5

  Repeat the oil treatment and insecticide spraying every week until the infestation is eradicated completely.