Treated for mites today...any suggestions here?

[6mutts]

So I noticed some major mites the other day, so today while i was off i treated both chickens and coop. I "dipped" the chickens in a bucket filled with a pyrethrin mixture. Then I completely cleaned out the coop and run and fogged the coop and sprayed the run with pyrethrin also. Just went out to give them their new next box and litter, well I still have them crawling on me (mites) when i walked out of the coop. Those little creepy crawlys.....echhhh. Should i do it all over again next week, or sooner? ANyone have ideas?

 

[Judy]

You will for sure have to treat again in about two weeks, when the eggs hatch, as the treatment will only kill live mites/lice, not eggs, and the eggs will hatch, and here we go again.

Hopefully they are running around from the irritation of the pyrethrins, and most of the critters will be dead in the AM. Pyrethrin will do that.

I know that a pyrethrin/permethrin mix kills lites/mice, but I'm not sure about just pyrethrins, as I haven't been able to find plain pyrethrins for several years.

I know exactly what you mean about feeling them on you. That is how I discovered they were there the first time. I used a pyrethrin/permethrin "poultry dust" and DE. Then I put DE in the litter, on the roosts, in the feed, in the dust bathing areas, and on the chickens (make a "powder puff" out of an old knee high.) This has given maybe 90% control. Somewhere on here I read that if you have chickens, you have mites. There are wild birds all around, landing on fence posts of the run, etc., so I can't stop the exposure. I can sometimes see a little sign of mites when I examine them, but nothing serious any more.

 

[6mutts]

haven't been out to check this morning....hope its better now, like you suggested. I cannot use permethrin because my cats have a SERIOUS allergy to it (as do allllll cats), All three were hospitalized with seizures and nerve damage when my husband accidentally put ONE drop of it on them, instead of reading the label and learning that it was NOT FOR CATS! I just don't want to take the risk of even having that stuff anywhere near them. Wish i could though

probably knock those things right out!

How long does it take for eggs to hatch? Mite/lice eggs

 

[Judy]

I've read many times here to retreat in two weeks, so I guess they have all hatched in two weeks.

Of course you could also use 5% Sevin dust, if the pyrethrin doesn't do it and you don't mind the heavy duty insecticide. Here's hoping the pyrethrin will do it.