I cant wait to get my sussex flock

[Brad18]

I will soon be getting 6 sussex chickens a cockeral and 5 hens. Does anybody know the cheapest place to source hens and roosters near Herefordshire in the uk? If not I will have to get my birds online. Another question I have is red mite. About three years ago we got a free coop and it was full of red mite and there is nothing I could do. We tried spraying it with kerosene and even that didn't work. I want a list of natural homemade remedies for red mites. I think neem oil would work from what I've read. Do you think it would be worth trying? To my knowledge neem oil kills most bugs

 

[Noraaaaa]

hi! Welcome to BYC! i love Sussex! what colors?

I'm not sure abt UK stuff.

mites may be solved by diatomaceous earth I neither worked. i use it a lot.

 

[sourland]

Welcome to BYC, and good luck in establishing your flock. Creosote is an 'old time' solution for dealing with red mites.

 

[007Sean]

Howdy, Brad and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

Welcome to BYC!
Good luck on getting your chickens!

 

[Tookie]

Hello, and welcome to BYC! Good luck finding Sussex’s!

Neem oil can kill mites, but as with a lot of natural things it would take more time and consistency for it to work best. Once I tried using neem oil for my chickens, because they had mites on themselves. The oil worked but it didn’t get all of them so I did a couple treatments with it. (Along with doing a bath first with Dawn dish soap) I would have had to been consistent with it to have worked completely. I just got tired of doing it and got some permethrin powder and used that. It worked like a charm and I only had to do it twice, the first time and then a week or so after that.

 

[GodLovesU]

 

[DobieLover]

Hello Brad, and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.

Permethrin is good for killing poultry mites. You'd need to soak every single surface of the coop paying particular attention to joints where wood meets wood. And you would have to do a second treatment about 10 days after the first one to kill off the mites that hatch from the eggs that cannot be killed with the spray.

 

[Jenbirdee]

 

[TwoCrows]

Hello and welcome to BYC!

Best wishes with your soon to be new flock! If you have any questions about them along the way, be sure to ask.

Welcome to our community!