>>And after $57 (darn exotics vet) I discovered my rats don't have fleas. They have lice. Can you say nasty? So she recomends treating them with poultry dust until the babies are weaned. I asked her how long I should wait after treatment before feeding them to my snake and she just kinda looked at me like I was the most evil person alive. It probably didn't help that I had 6 cute little fuzzies in there with the mom, but I wanted her to understand how little these guys are. Anyway, she's going to look up the information and call me today, but does anybody else have any experience with poultry dust?



If it were me, and it has been, I would call a close vet office and say you need a can of ovitrol plus flea spray, do they have it? This works great, for tiny pups I think I would saturate a towel and rub them with it and or give them a bath. Use it on the beasties, the bedding and the cage and surrounding areas. Do it again in a week and don't feed anyone off that has been sprayed for a couple of weeks at least. This is a pain if you have them to size already. But, if they are you could just freezer them after a bath to remove the obvious lice, before spraying the colony.

UPSIDE....I have found lice far easier to get rid of than fleas.
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