I know how to treat them, what to know what others use and do. Would like to use a flea bomb in their hutch ?

As near as I can tell, mine don’t have scaly leg mites (touch wood) but one of my hens never dust bathes when she’s setting and she gets red mites…just lousy…

When the neighbour’s Rodney came over to beat up Pancho earlier in the year, he had scaly legs, really yuk to look at, but he did not have mites…I picked him up and cuddled him (not that he deserved it) for 10 minutes and nothing was left on my hands and arms.

Since Charlie the randy rooster has been here I have also noticed the gil=rls are now not laying , is that normal Grrrr

Thee’s Estate said:

Since Charlie the randy rooster has been here I have also noticed the gil=rls are now not laying , is that normal Grrrr

Is Charlie the one ID’d as a barn velder?

He might have disrupted the pecking order they had before?

Just how randy is he?

Charlies as in the one on my forum D, yes jumps on top all day long Grrrr My poor girls :(

That doesn’t sound good, TheE… if he doesn’t settle down it sounds like he may have to be recycled…as a soup…

No farmed out to a rescue place :( Cant kill him Waaaa

considering the size of your hutch a flea bomb would be overkill. A spray bottle of pyrethrum would be sufficient.

Your chooks may be unsettled with all the attention they are getting and that is why you are not getting any eggs, unless they have found somewhere new to hide them. Have you had a good look around the yard for possible nesting spots?

As if the stuff you use for garden bugs ?

Thee’s Estate said:

As if the stuff you use for garden bugs ?

yes.

The vet sold me some Fido dog and cat wash for Tink’s red mites, and said to spray the roosting area with it. I’m supposed to sprinkle the area very thoroughly first (as in put a sprinkler in and let it run for at least an hour), get it good and wet, and this helps the Fido work better…but first I have to wait for Lavender to finish her current setting…Fido is a pyreth???? based flea and tickicide…have to use it once a week but it does smell nice…

Dinetta said:

The vet sold me some Fido dog and cat wash for Tink’s red mites, and said to spray the roosting area with it. I’m supposed to sprinkle the area very thoroughly first (as in put a sprinkler in and let it run for at least an hour), get it good and wet, and this helps the Fido work better…but first I have to wait for Lavender to finish her current setting…Fido is a pyreth???? based flea and tickicide…have to use it once a week but it does smell nice…

If the mites get onto the sitting hen and eggs, those chicks will be attacked apon hatching and die and the hens health severely compromised. Mites are blood suckers and if the infestation is bad enough, can waken a chicken and it can die from anemia. If you have to wait, dust her and her surrounding nest materials with pestene, it’s natural and not harmful to the chicks.

I just use ivomectin, decanted into a small 30 ml bottle from stock feed and some pet supply places. It treats lice, mites, scaly leg and comb mite included and the common poultry worms (it doesn’t kill tapeworm) 5 drops to the back of the neck on the skin o a standard large breed, 3 drops for bantam, 2 drops each chick over one week to 6 weeks old, one drop on a day old chick.
3 weeks no eating their eggs, they get recycled back to them, then we can eat them again.

I do this during moulting time when they go off the lay anyway and again 6 months later. So twice a year and finally I’m not having the probs I did in the past.

Happy Potter said:

If the mites get onto the sitting hen and eggs, those chicks will be attacked apon hatching and die

…and I’m beginning to think this is what happened to Tinks’ chickens…what’s the ant-killer name for pestene, I can’t find anybody who sells it in town…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

If the mites get onto the sitting hen and eggs, those chicks will be attacked apon hatching and die

…and I’m beginning to think this is what happened to Tinks’ chickens…what’s the ant-killer name for pestene, I can’t find anybody who sells it in town…

a pyrethrum based dust for your veges will work too. Is the ant killer a pyrethrum based powder too?

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

If the mites get onto the sitting hen and eggs, those chicks will be attacked apon hatching and die

…and I’m beginning to think this is what happened to Tinks’ chickens…what’s the ant-killer name for pestene, I can’t find anybody who sells it in town…

a pyrethrum based dust for your veges will work too. Is the ant killer a pyrethrum based powder too?

I think Happy Potter uses it instead of pestene? It’s cheeper?

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

…and I’m beginning to think this is what happened to Tinks’ chickens…what’s the ant-killer name for pestene, I can’t find anybody who sells it in town…

a pyrethrum based dust for your veges will work too. Is the ant killer a pyrethrum based powder too?

I think Happy Potter uses it instead of pestene? It’s cheeper?

Sorry, yes ant sand pro is the name of it. A chemical though, so I switched to pestene.

All good back laying, was just a day LOL. I have read that Advantage can be also used on chooks, a few drops and then I can use the rest on the dogs LOL

Thee’s Estate said:

All good back laying, was just a day LOL. I have read that Advantage can be also used on chooks, a few drops and then I can use the rest on the dogs LOL

I’ve got Frontline Plus for cats, suitable for kittens 8 weeks and older…going to put on Tink tonight, and use a cotton bud to put just a dab on the chicken. Apparently it will keep in the fridge…

Tink and the chickie got their Fronline last night. That should kill the little fokers…the red mites I mean…bit hard to put Frontline on a chickie’s neck, the down is so thick…

How did you get on, TheE?