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I will try this! I love the more natural and long term preventative measure!
Thanks! I'll try this too. I added garlic powder to their feed. I can put garlic in the nest boxes too.
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I will try this! I love the more natural and long term preventative measure!
Thank you for the encouragement.
Today is day four of the ambush against the evil insects. I haven't actually seen any on my birds, I hope I've intervened in time. The house was absolutely horrid. We bought a power washer and ended up having to SOAK the floor in water, and use a flat front shovel as well as the power washer to get the inch layer of yuck off the floor. Not sure the previous owners ever had cleaned it out. It's clean now though!!! Scrubbed, power washed, cleaned with murphy's oil soap, and then a friend of mine suggested we paint the inside, so today we used the spray painter and painted the whole inside of the house, ceiling, walls, floors, roosts, nest boxes, everything, and as much of the little house as I had paint for - got the floor and roosts painted before I ran out.. Used a full gallon of paint. Left it to dry all afternoon, and then we put fresh bedding down on the floor. It's much much much better now. Hopefully painting the inside will break the cycle. Any mites left in the wood after the soaking won't be able to escape the paint.
And put DE in their dust bath area also.
Really trying to avoid using the Permethrin because the chickens yard is connected to the orchard and I really really really don't want to harm the bees.
Powerful stuff that garlic.Hehe - the sulfur is used in a few commercial pest powders for mites.
But I mean, I've never BEEN bitten by vampires so you'd have to prove it didn't work ;-) hehe
Quote: Keep in mind, tho garlic might be beneficial to the birds...
...too much of it ingested can cause anemia, and I know I find the aroma to be irritating to nose and lungs when breathed in large/strong doses.
I will try this! I love the more natural and long term preventative measure!
Thanks! I'll try this too. I added garlic powder to their feed. I can put garlic in the nest boxes too.
Keep in mind, tho garlic might be beneficial to the birds...
...too much of it ingested can cause anemia, and I know I find the aroma to be irritating to nose and lungs when breathed in large/strong doses.
I'm so sorry for your situation. I have not had mites yet and are not looking forward to it. I just saw a device for yard care, a steam machine that was for killing weeds, very high heat I guess, I wonder if it would kill mites in the coop. Of course you would still have to bath the chickens. I think you need to do their head also.