Herbal remedy for mites?? My odd experience

[CactusAdjacent]

I took a hen home and nursed her back to health from several nasty ailments, but the subject of this thread is the northern fowl mites. She rode home with me in a cat carrier after sitting in it for a few hours while I finished working, not a mite in sight (I didn't think to check her feathers, she was already suffering badly when I caught her and I wanted her to rest). I looked up possible painkillers for chickens and read that ginger and turmeric are anti-inflammatory, she also had a badly impacted crop so I figured the ginger would help with that, too. I made ginger-turmeric-chamomile tea and crushed up a small amount of acetaminophen into it. She drank it fast, probably very dehydrated, and about 5 minutes later the mites started abandoning ship. I vacuumed up a hundred or so after I plopped the carrier in the bathtub where they kept pouring out. I dusted her with permetherin regardless, but I'm really curious why they bailed earlier.

Turns out, mites can totally climb out of a bathtub. They cannot walk across duck tape.

 

[sourland]

Interesting.