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If you're going through a molt, you want to throw the protein at them. Personally, I would get either a meatbird/broiler crumble or a gamebird feed and feed them that exclusively. No scratch, corn, oatmeal, treats, scraps, etc. Everything you add that's low protein (like scratch and other...

Yes, I won't use DE either, for many reasons. What are you trying to do by sprinkling it? If you're still worried about mites, just pull all the bedding and nest material and spray everything down with the permethrin. If you want to sprinkle something, I really like Sweet PDZ (meant for horse...

For what it's worth, straw can come with mites. My friend got a load for her pigs that was just full of mites. But, I don't know exactly what KIND of mites those were, so it may not be that significant.

I use liquid concentrate permethrin meant for livestock, not sure the dilution on it. That can be sprayed on birds and premises, yes. Or you can even put it in a bucket and dip them. Not knowing what's in your clothing product, I really can't say.

I would eliminate the area that they're choosing to use for laying, make it so they can't get there. And cull the BOs and run some fecals. I would not drop them to a 16% feed, I'm happier with 18% (though I'm surprised they call that a gamebird, usually gamebird is 22%+). If they're free...