Is this mites pics posted

[Newbie__123]

Hi, i have some chickens still pecking despite getting rid of chickens and enlarging the coop and free franging pretty near 24/7. So i started looking further into it and started finding this flaky stuff on alot of my chickens. Not aure if maybe mites or not now. If it is what do i treat with?

 

[Tonyroo]

Not mites, but could be lice hard to tell. Touch it, if it moves its lice otherwise looks like fungal patch.

Treat for lice if that's the case. But make sure your chickens have a place they can take a dirt bath.

Mixture for dirt bath should contain sand, small rocks, outside dirt, and agricultural lime.

 

[Shadrach]

I can't see mites in the pictures either.

 

[Tonyroo]

There's no mites.

 

[Eggcessive]

It could just be dandruff. Here is a good article with what to look for in lice and mites:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/poultry-lice-and-mites-identification/

 

[Newbie__123]

Not mites, but could be lice hard to tell. Touch it, if it moves its lice otherwise looks like fungal patch.

Treat for lice if that's the case. But make sure your chickens have a place they can take a dirt bath.

Mixture for dirt bath should contain sand, small rocks, outside dirt, and agricultural lime.

It dosent move its kinda like dandruff honestly just very flacky. And they have tons of areas to dustbath i add lime into the coop bi-weekly and they have access to tons of dirt and sand both in the coop and in my garden beds and in my lawn area.

 

[Newbie__123]

It could just be dandruff. Here is a good article with what to look for in lice and mites:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/poultry-lice-and-mites-identification/

Okay thank you i just wanted to be safer rather than sorry sinc eits the time.of year for mites.

 

[Isadora]

I don't see any bugs of any kind in the picture.

 

[Tonyroo]

Just make sure it's loose dirt bedding.