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She did treat her birds with garlic water once per month and had an herb spray that she sprayed them down with a few times a week. She has used cedar shaving for years with no trouble.
I have used cedar shavings for a brooder. I bought them not knowing that I should use it. I had no problems with the use of the cedar shavings. I think the trick is ventilation. Cedar has a strong odor that I think could overwhelm small chicks. I don't know that I have ever read a first person account that said that their chicks died because of cedar shavings. I have also found that a lot of the "natural" preventions, and cures rarely really work. Things like garlic, cayenne peeper, and DE may help slow down the thing like worms, but they do not cure worms. One still needs to worm their birds with something like Wazzine, and the a follow up with Ivermectin. I would love to do everything natural, but I have lost some of my birds by using the natural methods. So I now use products that actually work. I would use vaccines also, rather than loose my flock.
Lavender really does contain a miticide.
