- Jan 23, 2015
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Is there such a thing as catching mites from your chickens? Since I’ve gotten chickens, each summer I’ve been finding mites on me and I can’t find the source, the only thing I can think of is it coincided with the summer we got chickens. I don’t know what to do, no one else in the family has mites and I’m the only one who looks after the chickens. I feel too disgusted to talk to anyone about this. It most definitely is not a type of mite that normally bothers humans (like scabies), from what I can tell they look like mites common to chickens. My husband says “we live in the country” like as if this is normal, but this is not normal, even for country living. I’m about to give the chickens away if I can’t find a solution. Any advice?