Red mites in my hair!

[cmom]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/CritterKil...J5H70TMGDF3&psc=1&refRID=26W4SXP38J5H70TMGDF3

 

[Tavs]

It doesn't say anything on the label for use with livestock or poultry, but it would probably work for spraying inside your coop thoroughly all cracks and crevices where mites can hide as well as on and under the roosts, ceiling, walls, floor around the nest boxes.

Most of the stuff available over there seem to be DE which isn't very effective.

Thank you I have found a permethrin spray and a 13% permethrin flea bomb which I'll use when the new shed is ready. There are still plenty out there, not in the coop now but hiding under brushes and items around the coop. I sprayed the second hatchout yesterday and they all look dead today. The numbers have reduced dramatically but I'm not on top of it yet. I can't believe how speedy they are and how quickly they crawl up your arms. I guess they're hungry now I've moved the chickens. If the smoke bomb doesn't work I'm going to torch it. x

 

[Folly's place]

I try to examine a few of my birds while they are roosting about once a week, and then treat them all if any mites or lice are found on even one bird. They are miserable little things!
Mary

 

[cmom]

I saw those smoke bombs. Haven't seen those here in the US. We do have foggers.

 

[Tavs]

Thanks, I won't let this happen again. First time I've had red mite. I've had chickens for 3 years. Was using DM and thought this was staving them off but perhaps I just never had any till now. I now think they came in with some ex battery 'free range' birds which may explain their resilience as they could have come from a commercial setting. I'm moving the birds to a new shed and I'll give them ivomectin the day I move them and the mite predator bio control. Then I'll keep checking. To think I was recently mouthing off about how on top of my parasites I was! I suspect they will be part of life for us going forward as I read you can't eliminate them 100%

 

[Folly's place]

You can eliminate an infestation, but because of free ranging and open coops and runs, with wild birds visiting, reinfestations will happen, sometimes often.
Mary

 

[Tavs]

No mites seen since I put the predator mite in. I still had some after all the pesticide but the bio control seems to have finished off the last of them so recommend it. Will keep checking.

 

[Tavs]

Just want to say thanks for all the support with this situation. i found it really stressful but I seem to be on top of it now and have learned a LOT! Thank you wonderful community members. I love this site. xx

 

[aart]

No mites seen since I put the predator mite in. I still had some after all the pesticide but the bio control seems to have finished off the last of them so recommend it. Will keep checking.

Do you see the predator mites around?

 

[Samsg1971]

Waste of time and money.....use permethrin.

Permethrin is also a waste of time. Nothing kills these things. Been battling for a year now. Even spent 4k on heat treating our house, still have mites. So sorry