RED MITE

chrismahon said:
Because it has been such a mild Winter I fear next years Red Mite problem will be even worse than this years was. So I think it's really important to stay on top of it, as you are Karminski.

I get a lot of pleasure out of building coops and stuff like you do, but isn't it just soo annoying when they get muddy footprints and poo all over the place !!
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Well Chris its time to invest in dormat then and train them all to wipe their feet! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
i cant get the steam cleaner out today its now raining so its to risky to use power :( dont worry i will be armed and ready for action come the spring i'll be the new action mite killer woman :lol: :lol: i still blame all the parkeets that fly over each night for giving them to me .
yeh why cant the girls learn to wipe their feet when they go into a nice new clean house :-)05 has anyone invented a clean your feet chicken matt they do they for dogs :roll:
 
It's been the mildest December I can remember, the Keria in my garden has started flowering 3-4 months early and strangest of all I had a wasp (hate the buggers) in my house on christmas day !!!. I'm blaming pigeons which nest in the tree above my run for my mite problem theyre always dropping feathers onto the ranging area outside
 
and getting milder going up to 14 tomorrow onwards :? i got flowers bulbing that are not meant to start comnig up tell late april/may .
 
Our house is full of hatched flies -took a piece of pipe boxing off to wallpaper and they came down from the loft. Can't believe they are hatching in December.

Just ordered a Morphy Richards reconditioned steamer to treat the converted shed, which last year consumed about half of the £90 in chemicals. Should be here by end of next week. Can't wait to cook some mites Karminski.
 
yiipeee happy popping time to be had :lol: :lol: better then opening xmas presies :lol: :lol:
 
brought a small can of that ardap today will be trying that tomorrow in my rabbit hutch was recommended it by the guys who run the bird centre i get my stuff from if it works i will be stocking up on it :lol:
 
So after all that I bought spray glue sprayed all roofs inside
stuck down polythene sheeting on top,then finished it off with
plastic batons all round.All chickens out,everything sprayed with
the new spray,especially on the ends of wood.It is nice to go in a
coop and not come out itching.I know they will find a way,but I do
not think it will be major,because I spray every 2 weeks and some
times :roll: fortnightly :lol: :-)08 :-)17
 
Cannot remember posting this,so will apologise first,
Red Stop is now the new rescue for all of us.It is put in
the drinking water,for 10 days on the trot,then once a
week from then on.Of course if you get new birds you
will need to keep separate and start the 10 day regime.
What the Red Stop does is make the chickens blood
unpalatable so they ( red mite ) starve to death.After
the second day,went to coops to close up,under the torch
light I could see thousands of little yellowy grey mite running
around.All of those chickens and nothing to eat.So I torched
as in burnt them.That is all we find now,the yellowy grey mite
stuck in the vaseline and grease we had been using.
 
Hope you don't mind Brahmist ( and also hope I've not broken any forum rules) but I've copied most of your post to another forum - someone's OH stopped using Diatom when they ran out, without telling her, because "he didn't see the point". She's aware of a new product but didn't know what it was so your post will, as she put it, "fill in the blanks".
 
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