Do you think I could...

[cluckcluckluke]

I have Mites that are living on the chickens and in their nest boxing material.

I have been told to dust them twice with a 10 day gap, I only have time to dust them on week ends so do you think I could dust them 1 week between dusting or 2 weeks?

Will any of these be possible in the destruction of these horrible little bugs.lol.

 

[Lisa202]

I'm not that good with mites but I would try to do anything you can do. I had mites and dusted, but at the same time removed all straw and replaced it with new straw and put DE in with it. I only had to do this twice and I never saw them again. I guess it depends on the infestation. I think I caught mine early.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Do it every week with mites (not two weeks) due to the life cycle. If you don't change out all the nesting material also they might come right back (happens to me). I use poultry dust (permethrin). You need to treat the coop also- with permethrin spray or poultry dust.

I use sand in the floor of my coops now and scoop with kitty litter scoop to get poo out every day. I feel that I have fewer mites in there than with shavings (fewer infestations I mean).

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Thanks.

My Infestation is pretty large. I have done HEAPS, much more than what you guys have said. So hopefully my extreme cleaning has done the job. Tomorrow I will dust each chicken with a mixture of Sulfur and either Limestone, dirt or flour.

I will also put new Temporary material back into the nest boxes and on the floor of my coop and dust that to with my sulfur mix.


Then 1 week later as you suggest I will dust all the hens again clean out and renew the nest boxes and then add more flooring to my coop mixed in with more Sulfur. It sounds like a plan to me.lol. But do you think this will work???

 

[missnu01]

Why not use poultry dust or Sevin dust? I mean you want to kill the things for sure. Some bugs don't give up easy and mites are one of the hardest things to kill without the use of chemicals.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

I live in Australia, so I don't have Sevin products. My local feed store only has 1 duster for lice and mites, The main ingredient is sulfur. This small tub of dust costs $18 AU while a 1 kg bag of Sulfur cost $4.00.

I am not going all organic just trying to save some cash and seeing as the dust they sell us cost like 5 times more than a bag of sulfur, you would have to be crazy not to try it. I am also prepared to dust them a 3rd time if I see now improvement.

On my second dusting I will use DE, so the mites will get an extra hit.lol.

I have a friend who also dusts their chickens AND goats with sulfur and it works for them.