I hate to say this, but on the nest before the eggs hatched would have been a great time to dust her. That does not help you now though.
This is just pure personal opinion, no special knwoledge to back it up, but I'd go ahead and dust. At 5 days old, I'd do the chicks too. I would consider the mites more of a danger than the dust.
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought....Abraham Lincoln (Freedom carries responsibility)
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.....Judge Learned Hand (The more sure your are that your way is the only right way, the more likely you are wrong.)
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought....Abraham Lincoln (Freedom carries responsibility)
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.....Judge Learned Hand (The more sure your are that your way is the only right way, the more likely you are wrong.)
