Mites 😫 help!

[Chey1214]

I can’t get rid of these it’s stressing me out what should I do? I been spraying with Pyrethrin. Ever see these guys before? I just cleaned out my coop will do it again in a week…..my run is my problem

 

[Kiki]

Can you post a picture of the bottle of spray you are using?

 

[Chey1214]

 

[kcan2]

Looks like they could be grain mites!
If that's what they are - you will find them congregated around the food source. We once had them hatch out of a bag of old scratch grains. What we did to get rid of them was throw out of all of the infested food, cleaned all of containers out well and left them in the sun to dry, and then sprayed everything else down with permethrin. When we bought new food, we kept it stored somewhere else for a while. I think the key to getting rid of them was eradicating their food source(s).

 

[Chey1214]

Looks like grain mites!
We once had them hatch out of a bag of old scratch grains. What we did to get rid of them was throw out of all of the infested food, cleaned all of containers out well and left them in the sun to dry, and then sprayed everything else down with permethrin. When we bought new food, we kept it stored somewhere else for a while. I think the key to getting rid of them was eradicating their food source(s).

I get my feed from a farmer he has a mill! Should I assume all his feed is bad at this point and not get his grain again? I hate to do that but your right I gotta do that

 

[Chey1214]

If it’s not coccidiosis it’s grain mites! I’m over this summer!

 

[Kiki]

If it’s not coccidiosis it’s grain mites! I’m over this summer!

I bought a bag of feed that had grain mites in it once and I was so disgusted.
You can separated the big bag of feed into gallon sized zip lock bags and freeze it for a few days to kill them.
You can also sprinkle DE in the bag of feed and it should kill the grain mites.

 

[kcan2]

I get my feed from a farmer he has a mill! Should I assume all his feed is bad at this point and not get his grain again? I hate to do that but your right I gotta do that

If they are grain mites, they will be concentrated around your feed, not necessarily on your chickens. They look like little specks of sugar or dust that move.
I think if grain is old or isn't kept in controlled storage temps, they hatch off the corn in the feed (kind of like fruit fly eggs on bananas). When it happened to us, it was actually because we had old, unsealed feed and when it got really humid, here they came a-hatching all over the place like a nightmare plague. It was pretty traumatizing, sorry you're dealing with this!

 

[Nayday]

I can’t get rid of these it’s stressing me out what should I do? I been spraying with Pyrethrin. Ever see these guys before? I just cleaned out my coop will do it again in a week…..my run is my problem

I treat my flock with liquid ivermectin. 1 ml per bird, on the back of the neck. 1x a week for a couple weeks. (Per utube SelfSufficientMe) that guy Mark saved my flock!!!
Clean out a coop completly and spay ur permythrn especially in crevices and where roost poles attatch. Added pic of chkn tractor for fun!

 

[Nayday]

I treat my flock with liquid ivermectin. 1 ml per bird, on the back of the neck. 1x a week for a couple weeks. (Per utube SelfSufficientMe) that guy Mark saved my flock!!!
Clean out a coop completly and spay ur permythrn especially in crevices and where roost poles attatch. Added pic of chkn tractor for fun!

Also food grade DE in my coop