We have a HORRIBLE mite infestation all of a sudden. Had chickens for years and never mites. These mites are absolutely TINY, like, pencil dot sized, and leave miserable bites on me, too. Our birds have an 8’ x 8’ coop built into our barn/shed, which is shared by barn cats. They free range and share a very large paddock with goats, and range everywhere in the goat barn too (so LOTS of areas are probably infested), and lay eggs both in the nest boxes and in the goat barn. I’ve spread DE all over inside the coop, put permethrin dust on roosts, floor, etc, and tonight I caugh every chicken on the way in and thoroughly dusted each with permethrin. I’ve heard NF mites are resistant to permethrin though. How can I tell the difference between the mites?? And how best to
Get RID of them with so much space to treat (coop, shed, giant paddock, goat barn, house)???
Get RID of them with so much space to treat (coop, shed, giant paddock, goat barn, house)???