Pests on the chickens

[casportpony]

Update - I just checked on them and they seem find, all on perches going to sleep. But I took the opertunity to closely look at the coop and the entire wooden frame is covered in the tiny bugs, tens of thousands of them!

any home remedy that can kill them? diluted bleach solution sprayed on and lock chickens out? i powdered the coop but would have thought it would have started to hurt them by now.. given 24 hours...

Sounds like mites:
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/08/poultry-lice-and-mites-identification.html



-Kathy

 

[trev1lov3]

Dang, where is your location. I read in bee keeping theyll do really strong pepermint extracts and make this like energy bar kind thing with the pepermint and fondant. The bees eat fondat and dont partocularly like the pepermint but fpr the suger they tolerate ot and the mites that bother the bees cant stand the peppermint fumes. I would be dead set pn the naturaly way like you. I havmt had any experience with this yet but i would try maybe letting them out one day and smoke out the coop sumhow start a small fire in a metal bin and try to suffocate or drive those ******** out. Then as a precaution make a peppermint n diluted vinegar like spray sution to spray them with while the coop airs out. I bet they probably qouldnt like peppermont and vingar fumes

 

[casportpony]

Dang, where is your location. I read in bee keeping theyll do really strong pepermint extracts and make this like energy bar kind thing with the pepermint and fondant. The bees eat fondat and dont partocularly like the pepermint but fpr the suger they tolerate ot and the mites that bother the bees cant stand the peppermint fumes. I would be dead set pn the naturaly way like you. I havmt had any experience with this yet but i would try maybe letting them out one day and smoke out the coop sumhow start a small fire in a metal bin and try to suffocate or drive those ******** out. Then as a precaution make a peppermint n diluted vinegar like spray sution to spray them with while the coop airs out. I bet they probably qouldnt like peppermont and vingar fumes

@trev1lov3 , welcome to BYC!

-Kathy

 

[trev1lov3]

Thx glad to join