HELP really bad red mite infestation!!!

[tobit]

My coop is fairly small around 1.2 x 0.7m base and 0.8m high (plus legs to raise it off the ground), it houses my 4 bantams. The coop is made of old pallet wood, so all walls are made of 10cm wide pieces of wood, between these (and in all other nooks and crannies) i have red mite nests, it's gotten to the stage where i can take a blow torch to the inside wall of the coop and it is like a sparkler as the dead red mites pop and rain down. diatom powder doesn't seem to work, ive tried to fill the gaps with wood filler, smear vaseline on the wall.... I'm a bit lost so if anyone has any useful suggestions??

 

[Marfa]

Take the day off and do it on sunday

 

[cavemanrich]

http://www.motherearthnews.com/orga...ake-organic-pyrethrum-spray-zw0z1304zkin.aspx

The link will give you advice on using pyrethrum. It is a powerful insecticide but natural and will degrade to be not dangerous in short time..
Apply it with a brush to all the surfaces you can and keep your chickens elsewhere until you kill off those insects.. Other option , which is a lil radical but will work is to keep that blowtorch to the wood a little longer .. Hope you then have fresh wood to build new coop. In the meantime let your chickens dust bath in some DE.

If I was going to take the pyrethrum route, after treatment, I would try to cover with plastic or something similar to kill every last thing there like in a Dutch Oven.

WISHING YOU SUCCESS

 

[tobit]

thanks, I'll see what i can do!

http://www.motherearthnews.com/orga...ake-organic-pyrethrum-spray-zw0z1304zkin.aspx

The link will give you advice on using pyrethrum. It is a powerful insecticide but natural and will degrade to be not dangerous in short time..
Apply it with a brush to all the surfaces you can and keep your chickens elsewhere until you kill off those insects.. Other option , which is a lil radical but will work is to keep that blowtorch to the wood a little longer .. Hope you then have fresh wood to build new coop. In the meantime let your chickens dust bath in some DE.

If I was going to take the pyrethrum route, after treatment, I would try to cover with plastic or something similar to kill every last thing there like in a Dutch Oven.

WISHING YOU SUCCESS