I live in rural Australia and had these evil things in one my pens about 18 months ago. Picked up a rooster to look at one night and he had spots of blood on his feet plus these 'bug' things. Couldn't work out what the heck they were until finding out on here they were poultry tick. Never even...
I've had a breakout this recently and have been painfully going to the effort of catching all 30+ birds and giving them Ivomec. Have also been putting oil/vaseline on them at the same time but imo on these methods on their own simply don't work in completely eradicating them. It's a bloody...