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    Help needed to identify and eradicate probable mites?

    Is it possible that they might have just looked black to me because of how small they are? Also a but confused as to why I spotted them in the coop during the day. I'm pretty worried about using a blow torch, but that does sounds pretty satisfying! Not sure how I would do this without burning...
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    Help needed to identify and eradicate probable mites?

    Great advice! Thank you. I'll try to check my chickens feathers more thoroughly soon to see if they are indeed molting. Also glad somebody told me DE doesn't work very well.. I was about to order 10kg of it XD
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    Help needed to identify and eradicate probable mites?

    This is great advice! Thanks so much for detailing all of that. This is my first summer with them - really didn't expect it to be such a problem this far north! I've ordered the Total Mite Kill concentrate... should have it by tomorrow. Just to clarify though, do you just use this on the coop...
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    Help needed to identify and eradicate probable mites?

    Hello! I've went to check my egg box this morning for eggs, to find a bunch of tiny, black, spider-like insects crawling over three of my freshly laid eggs. Upon further inspection, I also noticed some smaller, creamy white insects gathered around crevices near the hatch for my egg box and the...
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