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  1. chickengeorgeto

    The war on roost mites

    The ashes will have to be kept dry. Wet ashes are like wet DE, useless unless its dry. Pine will work in a PITCH but a hard wood like oak, maple, or birch has more active ingredients. Sorry for the bad pun.
  2. chickengeorgeto

    The war on roost mites

    They do have hard exo-skeletions but I have never heard but one person who swears by DE say anything other than that DE was more deadly than Plutonium but just easier to buy..
  3. chickengeorgeto

    The war on roost mites

    Lye in the form of burned hard wood ashes is what is needed. Lye is a naturally occurring component in ashes and acts as an irritant, it should kill external parasites like lice and hopefully force the others to move on.
  4. chickengeorgeto

    The war on roost mites

    Suit yourself but to me it looks like the ant is doing all the hard work.
  5. chickengeorgeto

    The war on roost mites

    Although DE is in many chicken mashes it is not usually meant for pest control but rather as a drying or anti-clumping agent. May I suggest a small experiment? Put a couple of Table spoons full of DE in a clean & dry Mayonnaise jar, you can even punch a few holes in the lid to let in fresh...
  6. chickengeorgeto

    The war on roost mites

    As you may can see Red or Roost Mites live and reproduce in the cracks, splits, joints, and voids inside the very wood that the coop is made from. Anything like DE that doesn't deny the mites these strongholds is pretty much useless as a mite treatment. Just saying. Now imagine that...
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