Treating YOUNG chicks for mites

[chickychic1984]

I have a hen who is currently hatching eggs with 4 already hatched. They all have mites and so does mom. I have been treating Mom and her space with poultry protector spray before she was due to hatch. Clearly that didn't help. So I am wondering what I can treat them with? I also have the dust (garden and poultry dust).

Some back story: We had a mild winter (Oregon) so the flock came out of winter infested. I treated all with dust several times and nothing seemed to really help until it dried out and they treated themselves with dust baths. I had a hen who hatched 4 eggs, 3 died due to anemia from mites. Even tho I was treating her during her sitting period. I figured since she was sitting and not keeping up on her baths it would help prevent mites before the babes hatched. Fail. We've had a lot of rain and sun mixed so its been humid and wet off and on which hasn't helped. I even tried rinsing the mites off the babes and they still died. I think the only reason one lived was because mom was ready to take it out of the nest and explore/bathe. Bonus of that situation was that I was able to get her to adopt 12 feed store chicks.

So, now I have another hen (as mentioned in first paragraph) that I treated with poultry protector and her nest but am worried about babies.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

(Sorry for the wonky scattered post...trying to bust this out before baby boy wakes up!)

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

If you didn't toss the nesting material and also the bedding that is where your mites are coming back from after dusting. I have dealt a lot with mites and let me tell you, if I just leave the nest boxes alone they come right back. Those mites are awful. They will kill grown chickens too. I am sorry for your losses.

Dust the mama hen everywhere with the permethrin powder (poultry dust) except the face- vent area, under wings, abdomen. Dust coop after tossing materials. Dust all other chickens (I do this in the morning and then pull them out of the coop one by one to do this). Don't dust the itty bitties as they go under mama and will be dusted that way.

Repeat in 7 days (including tossing the bedding). If lice are there too dust another time at 14 days.

This is why I switched to sand in the coop and nest boxes, so I don't toss anything anymore- I just mix dust in. (Wear N95 mask when sifting sand as it is very bad to breathe).

They also sell a permethrin dilutable spray for coop and chickens at the feed store.