I use my gardening organic skills to look after my chickens by growing garlic and much more I feed it to my chickens by slicing it up the red mites hate it the taste of garlic blood makes them drop off ! Also by growing lavender when I had mice which knicked the chickens feathers at night 😡 And...
I have found by changing to old newspapers tear into strips about 1 inch long or 25 mm and remove all straw never use straw again then dust each time with dermacous Earth then add lavender gathered in summer into my nesting coop. ,I never have red mites and my chickens are laying right through...