Makes me wish i wasn't allergic to tea tree oil and lavender.
Tea tree oil spritzed on kid hair for lice repellent too.
Tea tree oil spritzed on kid hair for lice repellent too.
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Being a city boy in the country the locals piled on the scorn and ridicule when I suggested the answer to their chickens' mite problem was to simply throw a clove or two of garlic in the water and change the water regularly. Being a city boy in the country I did first fall foul (teehee) of a very overwhelming mite problem myself - we had to shower after going in the coop for a little while. I sprayed the coop with chemicals twice a week for a month to little avail. So I changed tactics...
We now grow lavender and garlic by the bucketful. Crushed garlic is added to oats soaked in hot water (with a little jam or yoghurt if the girls are being picky) every few days. Any garlic peel gets thrown in the coop and nesting boxes (saw an old Italian fella in the neighbourhood doing this), along with lavender. A good spray of diluted tea tree oil (or lavender oil if my stocks are low) once a week throughout the coop helps, and to reduce the cause the chickens now have a treadle feeder. Mind, my 4 girls are a long way from managing 25. Good luck
Not sure? Never heard of it.Also do you have Pestene there.
thanks for posting this information. I have done extensive research on this issue and was not aware of the product. It might be expensive but having a labeled product that offers one treatment control (i will be testing this claim) that can be used for premise treatment AND direct application as well WITHOUT withholding eggs or meat is almost too good to believe. I just ordered some... Even if it takes some addition steps i would be trilled beyond belief. Thanks again for postingI battled mites on my flock for months. Tried everything. Found a product that is expensive but got rid of all the mites with one application to the vent. It's safe, too.
http://www.elanco.us/products-services/poultry/controlling-houseflies-darkling-beetles.aspx
It is expensive, but it absolutely works. I'll gladly buy this product to save all the time & expense of everything else that I tried. I did also spray down the roosts, nest boxes & coops. Here is the least expensive place to buy it. The retailer does not have the new label. It is safe for use on chickens.
http://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail....=86672329123&gclid=CKLn3-ThlMMCFQNrfgodzxkASA
I did find one other product that worked. Frontline spray (fipronil) also killed the mites with one application. However, I only used it on one rooster, to test it. Since I eat my chickens and their eggs, this is not a safe product to use. There is no data on it's withdrawal time. The Elector psp has no withdrawal time for meat and eggs.
thanks for posting this information. I have done extensive research on this issue and was not aware of the product. It might be expensive but having a labeled product that offers one treatment control (i will be testing this claim) that can be used for premise treatment AND direct application as well WITHOUT withholding eggs or meat is almost too good to believe. I just ordered some... Even if it takes some addition steps i would be trilled beyond belief. Thanks again for posting
Doesn't sound like you've rotated controls. If you use only a single method, poultry protector, there is a 100 percent chance it will ultimately become ineffective. Ultimately, no method is 100 percent and very few chicken people rotate, using different tool. If you have only one tool, you can't do much. Permethin soak and scrub (and spraying down the coop and run with the used water, is the front line. Then I would Sevin Powder. I would make sure they have a dust bath with DE and maybe Sevin Powder as a component. You could even use Ivermectin -- 1 ml applied to back neck of the chicken (same stuff you put on dogs and cats for fleas). But you have to toss eggs (or cook them up and feed them back to chickens) for 5 days. But Ivermectin will keep birds worm, lice and mite free for three months.