Potential infestation. Please help me with identification and treatment options.

[The Grobfather]

Hello everyone,

Last night, I performed an inspection of the nesting boxes in the coop, and I saw these small insects crawling around on the eggs. I placed the eggs inside of an egg carton, and it looks like some hitched a ride, so I took pictures of them.

Based on these pictures, could anyone help me identify what exactly they are? I plan on going out to tractor supply later to buy something that could help.

I moved the chickens to a new coop I bought, and they only have access to the chicken run, which is covered in pine flake. I tried to examine around the chicken vent, but I could not find anyone.

If anyone could please help, I would greatly appreciate.

 

[nuthatched]

Get some permethrine based spray or dust, it will be with the farmacy or fly control. Completely clean out your coop and treat, burn or toss the old litter, then get all new bedding and litter.

 

[Debbie292d]

Yep, they have mites. Most use Permethrin dust/garden dust. You could leave everything in the coop to dust it all good, and each of the chickens. Others haul everything out, put in garbage bags and burn it, but that process perhaps releases some of them, and I'd want every last one dead.

Repeat that in 10 days as eggs will manage to hatch and you'll need to get those too.

You'll have to do the new coop too as chickens will have carried them there.

 

[The Grobfather]

Thank you both for the replies.

So for the permethrin based sprays and dusts, are those safe for chickens to be around? And do either of you potentially know what kind of mite it is from the picture?

Would you also recommend giving them a bath of some sort? Or would a dust bath of sand, dirt, small amounts of wood ash and Diatomaceous Earth work?