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Texas Kiki said:
I'd spray the coop tomorrow.
Get a head start on knocking the mite population down asap.
Mites are very common this time of year for some reason I don't think they care too much about the cold weather.
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All this cold and freezing rain and there is NO upside!?!
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FlyingNunFarm said:
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FlyingNunFarm said:
If I’m going to use liguid I’ll use the Elector PSP. I’m more worried about the temperature. Current forecast is a high of 39* on Monday but we then go to a high of -2* on Wednesday. Low of -12*. Supposed to be warmer temperatures a few days in a row next weekend. Not sure I should wait that long.

How the Pat crow did they get mites in winter!?!
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I don’t know if this would be temporarily more appealing for you because I’m a big fan of spray for bug too, but in light of your current weather forecast, there is garden an poultry dust with sort of a nozzle tip.
It’s not terribly effective as a means of application but it beats the kind that comes in the Parmesan cheese container!
As an option you could stop at the dollar store and pick up some ketchup squeeze bottles to use.
Use a funnel to transfer from the Parmesan cheese shaker container into this squeeze bottle and go to town squirting around.
Please do this in your garage or on the porch.
Tie a rag around your mouth and nose.
Shower ASAP afterwards.
The dust is very fine like baby powder and using it creates a cloud. It settles fast, but the object it for it NOT to settle IN YOUR LUNGS or ON YOUR SKIN.

Birds are easy. Pour a bunch of the powder in an old thin sock rubberband it closed and use it like a powder puff.
Pits, vents and neck, and middle of back.

Bag and dispose of whatever material you have in the nesting boxes in particular. The SPRINKLE LIBERALLY in the bottom of the nesting boxes plus a squirt on top for good measure.

Get the spray kind too and with an old rag, spray and rub down each plane of the roosts. Shirt the powder around where the roost connect to the walls or wherever.
Cracks and crevices are key in my opinion.
As soon as the weather breaks, clean up all bedding, (bag and dispose of), and re-treat everywhere with the spray.
 
staceyj said:
I don’t know if this would be temporarily more appealing for you because I’m a big fan of spray for bug too, but in light of your current weather forecast, there is garden an poultry dust with sort of a nozzle tip.
It’s not terribly effective as a means of application but it beats the kind that comes in the Parmesan cheese container!
As an option you could stop at the dollar store and pick up some ketchup squeeze bottles to use.
Use a funnel to transfer from the Parmesan cheese shaker container into this squeeze bottle and go to town squirting around.
Please do this in your garage or on the porch.
Tie a rag around your mouth and nose.
Shower ASAP afterwards.
The dust is very fine like baby powder and using it creates a cloud. It settles fast, but the object it for it NOT to settle IN YOUR LUNGS or ON YOUR SKIN.

Birds are easy. Pour a bunch of the powder in an old thin sock rubberband it closed and use it like a powder puff.
Pits, vents and neck, and middle of back.

Bag and dispose of whatever material you have in the nesting boxes in particular. The SPRINKLE LIBERALLY in the bottom of the nesting boxes plus a squirt on top for good measure.

Get the spray kind too and with an old rag, spray and rub down each plane of the roosts. Shirt the powder around where the roost connect to the walls or wherever.
Cracks and crevices are key in my opinion.
As soon as the weather breaks, clean up all bedding, (bag and dispose of), and re-treat everywhere with the spray.
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good tips for poultry dust!

Elector psp is the current gold standard for getting rid of mites. It works topically on the poultry and can be diluted a lot and made into a spray for the coop. A fellow BYC member could not get rid of mites with poultry dust, sprays and other methods. Elector got rid of them immediately.

It is expensive though!
 

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