What is the best treatment for mites?

[HappyClucker7]

I think my chickens might have mites. What would be the best treatment to get rid of them?

 

[cmom]

Permethrin. Thoroughly spray inside their coop and the birds weekly for 3 or 4 weeks as it does not kill mite eggs. There are several threads on mites. You can buy the premixed spray. I also use poultry dust in the nest boxes. I use the concentrate and mix it with water at 0.50% but I have several coops. There is no egg withdrawal period. Good luck...

 

[HappyClucker7]

Permethrin. Thoroughly spray inside their coop and the birds weekly for 3 or 4 weeks as it does not kill mite eggs. There are several threads on mites. You can buy the premixed spray. I also use poultry dust in the nest boxes. I use the concentrate and mix it with water at 0.50% but I have several coops. There is no egg withdrawal period. Good luck...
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Okay, I'll go get some tomorrow. Thank you very much!

 

[MommaHen1996]

First I’d make sure they are really mites or lice...My first ever chicken I saved (Red star that was going to Haiti for battery laying) had lice BAD. IT WAS SOOO CREEPY. But don’t worry humans can’t get it...though they look VERY similar... I used Diatamatious earth and coated her and her whole run and enclosure like every day, twice a day....it also keeps out ants... Dawn Dishsoap worked well for me to. She’s lice free now

 

[cmom]

First I’d make sure they are really mites or lice...My first ever chicken I saved (Red star that was going to Haiti for battery laying) had lice BAD. IT WAS SOOO CREEPY. But don’t worry humans can’t get it...though they look VERY similar... I used Diatamatious earth and coated her and her whole run and enclosure like every day, twice a day....it also keeps out ants... Dawn Dishsoap worked well for me to. She’s lice free now

I had no issues for many years then noticed my birds weren't looking too well. I thought they were molting but upon further inspection they had lice and mites. First I found them in one coop and then another. I immediately treated the birds with DE. After a couple of weeks of treating them with the DE they weren't improving and still had the pests on them. I had a little bit of sevin and it helped but sevin is no longer approved for use on animals. Then I bought some permethrin. After a couple weekly treatments with the permethrin the birds starting improving and no bugs. I continued treatment for a couple of more weeks and the birds continued to improve. I cleaned out their coops and bought the permethrin concentrate and then treated all of the coops thoroughly inside. I think if I hadn't treated them with the permethrin I might have lost some of the birds. I wish I had taken pictures but was so concentrating on them and getting rid of the bugs, I didn't. I used the poultry dust in the nest boxes. I know some people swear by DE but it didn't work for me.

 

[MommaHen1996]

I had no issues for many years then noticed my birds weren't looking too well. I thought they were molting but upon further inspection they had lice and mites. First I found them in one coop and then another. I immediately treated the birds with DE. After a couple of weeks of treating them with the DE they weren't improving and still had the pests on them. I had a little bit of sevin and it helped but sevin is no longer approved for use on animals. Then I bought some permethrin. After a couple weekly treatments with the permethrin the birds starting improving and no bugs. I continued treatment for a couple of more weeks and the birds continued to improve. I cleaned out their coops and bought the permethrin concentrate and then treated all of the coops thoroughly inside. I think if I hadn't treated them with the permethrin I might have lost some of the birds. I wish I had taken pictures but was so concentrating on them and getting rid of the bugs, I didn't. I used the poultry dust in the nest boxes. I know some people swear by DE but it didn't work for me.

Maybe it was a combo of the dawn dish soap that helped me out, I also mixed the DE in the sand in their run (one perk of Florida, endless dust sand baths)

 

[Fosterfarms70]

I had no issues for many years then noticed my birds weren't looking too well. I thought they were molting but upon further inspection they had lice and mites. First I found them in one coop and then another. I immediately treated the birds with DE. After a couple of weeks of treating them with the DE they weren't improving and still had the pests on them. I had a little bit of sevin and it helped but sevin is no longer approved for use on animals. Then I bought some permethrin. After a couple weekly treatments with the permethrin the birds starting improving and no bugs. I continued treatment for a couple of more weeks and the birds continued to improve. I cleaned out their coops and bought the permethrin concentrate and then treated all of the coops thoroughly inside. I think if I hadn't treated them with the permethrin I might have lost some of the birds. I wish I had taken pictures but was so concentrating on them and getting rid of the bugs, I didn't. I used the poultry dust in the nest boxes. I know some people swear by DE but it didn't work for me.

My chickens have mites or lice, I cannot tell but they are not looking well. I treated them with DE 4 weeks ago and they look worse. I am in Canada and have no access to any Electoral psp or permethrin. Help!

 

[HappyClucker7]

I'm having a lot of trouble finding permethrin. Neither my two local feed stores, nor TSC have it in stock.
I'm going to have to try amazon.

 

[cmom]

TSC carries permethrin. I get these at my TSC.

 

[HappyClucker7]

TSC carries permethrin. I get these at my TSC.

Yes, they do carry it. But the TSC near me doesn't have it in stock at the moment.