M.sue :
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I'll have to check & see if one of the TSCs near me carries it. Sevin works wonders but I'm like you and a lot of others.....just don't feel real comfortable using it.
We had chickens in Hawaii for about 7 years. Mites there are REALLY bad and NO WINTER to kill them off outside. So we used Adams Flea/Tick Spray in the 'ready to use on the pet diluted form' which is basically pyrethrins and water in a spray bottle. We got it at the pet store.
That stuff can kill birds. A friend of ours over sprayed his budgie and it died. So make no mistake, it is poison. But we use the diluted, 'ready to use on animals' bottle - be careful because it is sold in a concentrated form that would really hurt your chickens - and we only ever use one little squirt (not the big SPRAY setting), just a controlled squirt to a direct spot under each wins and one little squirt near the vent. And the mites are killed.
ON A SEPARATE DAY - we would spray the nest boxes and perches.
In Michigan, we are closing chickens up in the coop, so whatever you have put in the coop will be breathed in by the hens and end up in your eggs. And breathing a lot of pyrethrins can't be a good thing. So I spray the hens one day and then on a different day I spray the perches/nests and I leave the windows/door open all day for ventilation. I would not do this in the winter when my coop was not open wide. My problem with Sevin dust is that I don't want it on the floor of the coop because I don't want any hen to ingest any of it. I figure that ends up in my egg.
In Hawaii I used the pyrethrin spray 3 times a year and in Michigan I do it once - in July or August during the big big heatwave. A very little bit of this poison killed a ton of mites and kept the chickens mite free for 3 months in humid hot conditions.
Hill Billy Hen. You might try just a squirt and see if you get the same result. We have had chickens for 11 years and 7 of those in a tropical climate and we have never had a problem with mites.
And we have never soaked our birds or our coop in pyrethrins. Like I said, a couple squirts on the birds (no where near the face) and a light spray of the wooden perches and nest boxes. So I am guessing that you can save time and money and not dip the hens and still be just fine.
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I'll have to check & see if one of the TSCs near me carries it. Sevin works wonders but I'm like you and a lot of others.....just don't feel real comfortable using it.
We had chickens in Hawaii for about 7 years. Mites there are REALLY bad and NO WINTER to kill them off outside. So we used Adams Flea/Tick Spray in the 'ready to use on the pet diluted form' which is basically pyrethrins and water in a spray bottle. We got it at the pet store.
That stuff can kill birds. A friend of ours over sprayed his budgie and it died. So make no mistake, it is poison. But we use the diluted, 'ready to use on animals' bottle - be careful because it is sold in a concentrated form that would really hurt your chickens - and we only ever use one little squirt (not the big SPRAY setting), just a controlled squirt to a direct spot under each wins and one little squirt near the vent. And the mites are killed.
ON A SEPARATE DAY - we would spray the nest boxes and perches.
In Michigan, we are closing chickens up in the coop, so whatever you have put in the coop will be breathed in by the hens and end up in your eggs. And breathing a lot of pyrethrins can't be a good thing. So I spray the hens one day and then on a different day I spray the perches/nests and I leave the windows/door open all day for ventilation. I would not do this in the winter when my coop was not open wide. My problem with Sevin dust is that I don't want it on the floor of the coop because I don't want any hen to ingest any of it. I figure that ends up in my egg.
In Hawaii I used the pyrethrin spray 3 times a year and in Michigan I do it once - in July or August during the big big heatwave. A very little bit of this poison killed a ton of mites and kept the chickens mite free for 3 months in humid hot conditions.
Hill Billy Hen. You might try just a squirt and see if you get the same result. We have had chickens for 11 years and 7 of those in a tropical climate and we have never had a problem with mites.
And we have never soaked our birds or our coop in pyrethrins. Like I said, a couple squirts on the birds (no where near the face) and a light spray of the wooden perches and nest boxes. So I am guessing that you can save time and money and not dip the hens and still be just fine.
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