House mites?

[wallawu]

The floor of my house is a type of board/sheet you can spray off. It has little dimples all over it for texture, so it catches debris when I'm cleaning it out. Not warm enough for me to spray it out yet.

 

[Isaac 0]

The floor of my house is a type of board/sheet you can spray off. It has little dimples all over it for texture, so it catches debris when I'm cleaning it out. Not warm enough for me to spray it out yet.

Could you use a shop vac to clean the coop? Suck up all the dust and mites.

 

[wallawu]

Could you use a shop vac to clean the coop? Suck up all the dust and mites.

If I see more I'll probably give that a shot. Hopefully the clean deep litter and DE will do the trick

 

[Isaac 0]

 

[Ratchnick]

So will the DE not take care of an infestation? Or at least keep the ducks protected? Would getting some cedar shavings to mix in repel them?

De may help kill bugs in the coop, but wont get any that are in the down of your birds. Swimming or bathing wont help either because ducks are waterproof. The down (and mites) stay dry and cozy. Pyrithrium will likely kill them. Are Your birds healthy? They may be fine and you dont have to worry about it. Ducks are pretty resistant to parasites and disease, but you don't have to hang around here very long to see ducks still get sick.

 

[Isaac 0]

De may help kill bugs in the coop, but wont get any that are in the down of your birds. Swimming or bathing wont help either because ducks are waterproof. The down (and mites) stay dry and cozy. Pyrithrium will likely kill them. Are Your birds healthy? They may be fine and you dont have to worry about it. Ducks are pretty resistant to parasites and disease, but you don't have to hang around here very long to see ducks still get sick.

If swimming in water doesn't help them what other defenses do ducks have against external parasites? And why are mites/lice most prevalent with ducks that don't have access to swimming water?

 

[chickens really]

Go get a mite and lice spray that's safe for poultry. Reclean the house out. Spray the birds too. DE will not help.

 

[Miss Lydia]

When my chickens had mites only my chickens had them.none of my ducks an they slept in the same house. I did pull all bedding out bagged it up an carried it down the road an dumped over the bank. You don’t want it around the house. The mites my chickens had on them were very tiny and blk look like pepper but they crawled. I could stick my hand in the shaving and they crawled on my hand so I used a spray and sprayed the entire house top to bottom all cracks and crevices. Took safe poultry dust put it inside of a paper grocery bag slipped my chickens in feet first whole body but head closed the bag up around the neck and held one hand around the neck ( top of the bag) and one under to support the chicken and gently shook the bag till the chicken was coated in the dust. Then I took the dust in my fingers and rubbed over head and around face avoiding eyes and nares. I’ve always heard that water fowl unless kept in horrible conditions don’t get external parasites if the have plenty of bath water too. I believe it was in Dave Holddreads book

 

[wallawu]

Sounds like maybe they're ok? They don't seem to have a care in the world.

 

[Isaac 0]

Sounds like maybe they're ok? They don't seem to have a care in the world.

If they don't seem to be itching there heads, I would assume it's just a bug in the coop.
It's hard to know without clear pictures of the bug. Don't know where you are but migratory birds have been flocking around my house, that's when you need to watch out for parasites.