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    Northern Fowl Mite Disgust

    After treating for mites several times over the course of a month, 5 days apart. What do we believe is the best duration for preventative treatment? Once every 3 months? 6 months? And is one time good or should it be repeated in 5 days when doing preventative treatment? Please advise. Thanks...
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    Northern Fowl Mite Disgust

    I agree with you. My two roosters (plus whole flock) and I have been battling their mites for awhile now and idk how they’ve survived. I think keeping the treatments more like 5 days apart is key especially with NFM. I know my problem is NFM. I posted a pic awhile back confirming it.
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    Northern Fowl Mite Disgust

    This is great. Thank you! I am going to try this next.
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    Northern Fowl Mite Disgust

    Thank you for the reply. I do believe that Permethrin is losing it's effectiveness. Which I am uncomfortable with using anyways. I will get some Sevin and give it a try. Can you elaborate on the Frontline? What kind would you recommend? When you say spritz under the wings and by the vent do...
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    Northern Fowl Mite Disgust

    How funny that you reached out because I have recently been wondering how others are keeping mites away. I do exactly what you do. I do Permerthrin often-strip the shavings and cover the entire inside of the coop. I also spent months dosing everyone in Eprinex and dusting them. I did it like...
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    Northern Fowl Mite Disgust

    It sounds like you've done a good job so far. I also trimmed pretty much all of my chickens vent feathers, I could tell that was where the majority of the eggs are. I think giving them a bath does help, I fill up a bucket and let the chickens sort of float in there for several minutes-they like...
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    Northern Fowl Mite Disgust

    Thank you for the advise. I have doused the entire coop in Permethrin and stripped all of the shavings. I have also used the Permethrin powder in several ways: dusting the chickens, put it in their dust bath, put it inside their coops. I have made a Permethrin dip for the chickens as well.
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    Northern Fowl Mite Disgust

    I hope we can tackle this! Your poor Pekins. These mites are the worse. It’s basically like the chickens have fleas and fleas are also very difficult to get rid of. I find it hard to believe that since this is such a common issue-that there is not a proven product. But I think that the pests...
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    Northern Fowl Mite Disgust

    This is going to be sort of a long story..I have been dealing with Northern Fowl Mites for who knows how long. I had treated my flock for it last year and believed to have gotten it under control but am suspicious that they never fully went away. The topic keeps me up at night, I want them GONE...
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    Getting an existing flock questions

    I am no expert but I would recommend keeping them in the coop and run for a little while in order to get them used to the new area before allowing them to free range. As far as getting them to come to you when you call them, I would recommend giving them treats. When you have treats for them...
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    Rescued Silkies - Covered in lice, toe nail fungus

    Poor silkies! I would think that rubbing vaseline into their feet would be good measure in case there are any scaly leg mites present. I think you asked a valid question. When should Ivermectin be used again? Ivermectin is such a loaded topic on here. I too rescued silkies a couple years...
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    Scaly Leg Mite Nightmare (Pictures)

    Thank you. This was back in April, the problem has mostly been resolved. Just sharing my experience to help anyone else with this problem.
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    Scaly Leg Mite Nightmare (Pictures)

    I decided I would share my experience with (very extreme) scaly leg mites. This year we built a second coop to house only silkies. In April, we got four silkie hens off of a craigslist ad and a few weeks later got Orville, our beautiful white silkie rooster to go with them. After having the...
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