Advice on oil. For nest/roost

[ChickNZ18]

Hi,
My babies a RIR cross chicks 2 weeks old with a broody mother hen.

It's spring here temp around 10to 18°c

They are getting to big for there current cage so I want to move them into a larger wooden dog kennel.

Mother hen appears to have red mites.

What is the best oil for chick health and mother hen to coat the kennel with.

The old lady up the road says used engine oil??

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hi,
My babies a RIR cross chicks 2 weeks old with a broody mother hen.

It's spring here temp around 10to 18°c

They are getting to big for there current cage so I want to move them into a larger wooden dog kennel.

Mother hen appears to have red mites.

What is the best oil for chick health and mother hen to coat the kennel with.

The old lady up the road says used engine oil??

If you have access to any horse fly spray with permethrin as the active ingredient, that's what I would use. Can you have it delivered by amazon?

But red mites... I believe don't live on the hen only feed there...
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/08/poultry-lice-and-mites-identification.html

I would not personally use engine oil as I consider it toxic to my birds. I do understand choosing the lesser of the evils... I'm just not sure engine oil is it.

Hopefully you will get some more answers.

 

[Mosey2003]

Do not use engine oil near animals.

You want permethrin, you can get a concentrated liquid that you make into spray or a dusting powder from most farm stores. If they're red mites, you want to remove all the bedding from everywhere and spray the bejeebers out of everything, especially in the cracks. You can also dip or spray the chickens. Repeat every 10 days until you no longer see them. You can put the poultry dust into areas they dustbathe, too.

 

[Kiki]

You don't want oil, you need permethrin.
This product doesn't have to be mixed like a permethrin concentrate does.
Spray everything, including all chickens one day one.
Repeat 2 more times a week apart.
Do it asap to knock down the mite population before they suck the life out of your birds.
Having mites will wear down their immune system and allow them to go down hill with other things faster.

Martin's PERMETHRIN spray

• Kiki
• Mar 22, 2018
• 6
• flies lice mites permethrin

 

[Kiki]

Also if you are seeing miss on your birds during he day you can count on there being a lot of them in your coop. They usually come out at night to eat on the birds.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Also if you are seeing miss on your birds during he day you can count on there being a lot of them in your coop. They usually come out at night to eat on the birds.

Not here... my coop is checked/treated regularly... they are in my stumps and such out in the yard. And I feel like they may feed whenever the opportunity strikes (which is night time for roosting birds) but it IS during the daytime I see them outside on my water hose or METAL patio table.

You want permethrin,

You already KNOW they have it available in NZ?

 

[Kiki]

Not here... my coop is checked/treated regularly... they are in my stumps and such out in the yard. And I feel like they may feed whenever the opportunity strikes (which is night time for roosting birds) but it IS during the daytime I see them outside on my water hose or METAL patio table.

You already KNOW they have it available in NZ?

SHOOT.
I didn't even notice the New Zealand part.
Let me look right now.

 

[Kiki]

I found this and I am not paying attention to the bottle name...I'm looking at the ingredients:
https://www.completeoutdoors.co.nz/sawyer-permethrin-fabric-insect-repellent-24oz-spray-942

Seems insanely expensive though.

 

[Mosey2003]

You already KNOW they have it available in NZ?

I'm sorry, I didn't look at the location. It's a pretty common livestock chemical, I would *hope* they have it in NZ.

 

[Kiki]

Neem oil....is neem available there in NZ?