Hello, we have had consistant recurrence of microspic mites over the years, they look like dust specks and usually white or pink, for sure we've never seen any of them turn red, so we suppose they are not bloodsucking types. They are barely visible and they are seen crawling around the skin or stuck in the feather quills. seems that the hens lay less eggs when they have too many of those mites, but we've never had problems with picking feathers or missing feathers. They all look healthy even when they have them. We've been regularly treating them two doses 10 days apart with topical ivermectin and spray their sleeping areas with permethrin, but they always come back! and now some baby chicks have them too.
We decided to try another type of pesticide that can be used on the chickens and bedding and read that carbaryl dust was effective, so we ordered Sevin dust (very expensive here because it's imported and we are in Mexico) but the ingredient is Bifenthrin NOT Carbaryl. Does anyone know about this? Is Bifenthrin safe to use on chickens and is it effective against mites?
We decided to try another type of pesticide that can be used on the chickens and bedding and read that carbaryl dust was effective, so we ordered Sevin dust (very expensive here because it's imported and we are in Mexico) but the ingredient is Bifenthrin NOT Carbaryl. Does anyone know about this? Is Bifenthrin safe to use on chickens and is it effective against mites?