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Hi everyone, Sorry - this was ages ago, but I just thought I should let you know that I tried the Home brand surface spray and it worked perfectly! I changed the wood shavings in their nest boxes and sprayed the nests, perches and walls of the coop twice a week for about 3 weeks and the mites...

Thanks everyone. I'm pretty sure it's Dermanyssus gallinae (what we just call Red Mite in Australia) that I have. I'm cleaning the coop out every couple of days and dusting the coop and the chooks with lots of Pestene, so I'll just keep doing that. As for the garden, I don't want to use anything...

Yikes! So is there any way I can get them out of my garden/ lawn??

Thanks @Egghead_Jr ! I read somewhere that the mites can live for 6 months in an empty coop, so was a bit worried about how long they'd stay in the garden. Hopefully we'll get our first frost soon and that will knock them out! I can keep dusting the chooks with the powder, but not really the...

I cleaned out our chook house a few days ago and discovered there was a decent infestation of mites in the nest boxes, so, without reading up on what to do, I put the chook house on the lawn (it's portable) and hosed it off then left it in the sun to dry... Then dusted it and the chooks with...