Depluming mites and treating the RUN

I'm dealing with the same issue so found this thread. We have had our girls separated all summer from the roosters in the hopes they could regrow their feathers in time for winter, but some girls just seem to be getting worse and worse, despite no mating, to the point where it's somewhat embarrassing.

However, I don't see how feather picking and mites are necessarily separate issues. If they're picking their feathers, they may be doing it because they are uncomfortable or in pain. If you do a simple google search on depluming mites for example, here's what you get "parasitic mites that burrow into the feather shafts and surrounding skin of chickens, causing intense itching and irritation that leads birds to pluck out their own feathers, resulting in broken and sparse plumage."

Also, when I look at your pictures, I do think I see some specks. I have a rooster that likes to get pets on my lap and I noticed tiny little specks, no larger than a pencil dot, moving up and down his legs occasionally. At first I thought perhaps it was scaly leg mites and that maybe they are more visible in some cases. But then I followed one of the dots all the way up and sure enough when I parted his tail feathers, I found several of these dots or specs hanging out around his vent.
Thanks. I have looked and looked for mites and never found one. Depluming mites arent visible to naked eye from what I understand. There’s no mite poop at the base of feathers, so i dont think it’s mites. I treated today regardless.
 
I’m following this with great interest, and I’m now on the edge of my seat! Please let us know if the deep clean & PSP worked!
Well it’s looking good. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence and this girl finally went into molt, but check this out!! A back FULL of pin feathers. I cried when I saw them.

Today is day 7 after the deep clean and dip, so I dipped the poor things again to get any eggs that might have hatched since last week.

I never saw ANY evidence of mites aside from bald vents and this one with a bald vent and back. No dirty feather bases, nothing. I looked under microscope at feathers and inside feather sheaths. Nothing. But either they did have depluming mites or this is a coincidence. Either way I am THRILLED to see improvement.

The others just have bald vents, not backs. No pin feathers on those yet. Hoping to be back in a week with good news about them.
 

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Having problems with Depluming mites, and I have not seen any. And I did skin scrapings and feather plucking to look under microscope too. But it has to be Depluming mites. They are destroying the freathers on my chickens!
The Depluming mites are like Sarcoptic mites, they burrow under the skin killing feathers on birds or hair follicles, if its Sarcoptic on animals with hair. They cannot be seen with the naked eye. Have to do scrapings. and look under a microscope. A good kids microscope works fine. Ivermectin Pour on, is the only treatment that into the skin/body and kills the mites. But I have treated mine, and now are coming back. also did my coop and run, and racking the feathers up weekly. And spraying coop and run too. Going to now treat in their water with injectable ivermectin. Put in one waterer, and so they have to drink it, and remove others. Treat for 2 days in a row. Repeat in 14 days. And clean and spray coop and run AGAIN. About to pull out my own hair myself over this.
 

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