Chicken Drowning

I was doing my second round of dunking my girls in a bucket with a Permethryn mix for mites.  I have 13 chickens.  I tried using the long rubber gloves, the liquid still gets in.  I hope someday down the line it doesn't bite me in the butt for not using gloves.  I have two runs attached to each other and I toss some feed in the outer section and then I put the wall up between them.  It is easier to catch them in this section since it doesn't have the coop in it.  I have the warm mix ready, I catch each chicken, stop on a stump to make sure I have a good hold, then put in bucket and count to 10, out of the bucket, let drip, then open top of door and out goes the chicken into the sun.

Well, midway through, I had Racer, Speckled Sussex, and the minute I started to put her into the bucket she went ballistic on me and started struggling.  I had glasses on, shut my eyes and thought I had the right parts under water.  Apparently I got her face, too, she staggered and fell when I let her out.  I got the hose and washed off her face.  She still staggered and fell on her side.  She'd go a little ways and over she'd go again.  I truly thought I drowned her.

But...  once she dried off she was fine and still is.  Good, I was hoping I didn't kill her.  But if she hadn't struggled I wouldn't have had to close my eyes and I still had to take a shower when I was done.  I also clean the coop, spray all inside parts, the egg boxes, and put new shavings in the boxes and new straw in the coop.  I keep a fairly clean coop anyways so the local bird population must have brought me the mites.