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and thats sqaushing red mites :lol: :lol: i have killed so many today that i felt that if i had a fiver for everyone killed then i would of got more then last nights euromillions :lol: i have been at war scrubbing and cleaning since 8.30 this morning tell 5 pm { in between doing dogs an horses } everything had a major spring clean and the new house after finding 3 in there this morning got blitzed and i also put loads of vaseline down each seam of the sides inside the house etc so if they go on it they will be stuck :( oh poor little buggers what a shame nottttttttttttttttttttttttttt will be doing out side of the house tomorrow once its all painted and dried .i feel bad for my girls that its got this bad but now war has been declared and they wont survive .
 
They 'pop' if you use a hot air gun or blowtorch. If you suddenly light up the inside of the coop the red mite are caught in the open and the hens eat them.
 
i was using my thumb nail :lol: and this morning my coops were clear not to say i still didnt have sme during the night though i went out before the sun came up with my miners torch on my head and had a good look around and there wasnt even any stuck to the vaseline which i thought there might have been .
i cant be trusted with a blow torch :lol: :lol:
 
I've been giving thought to a mite trap. They are attracted to body heat at night so I thought something at body temperature would work. A brewers heating mat with a hot water cylinder thermostat fitted on the surface then a piece of paper over it with sticky fly paper on that might work. Hang it inside the coop out of reach of the chickens -because they will try to eat the mite and get their beaks covered in fly paper glue! Project for Winter perhaps -I have the cylinder stat.
 
sounds good but you wont know tell you try it :) , i saw friends of mine today who have chickens on another site down the road from me and they got hit by red mite this year and treating the housing with crecote and said it works brillant the mites were dropping dead in front of thier eyes but i have read its not all that brillant for me personally i like the idea of vaseline down the seams as its very esay to do and very very cheap even if i have to do it every week or two weeks its only 10 mins out of my time but this woman looked at me as if to say well that wont work .
 
Do not be complacent. You may have killed the lice you can see but there will be eggs that have a 7 day hatching cycle. I first saw them 3 weeks ago and sprayed the coop with Poultry Shield at 20% dilution. 6 days later and they were back so sprayed again and Dusted mite powder into all the crevices. 6 days later and still there so Sprayed getting into all the crevices-left to dry and sprayed again. And then Mite powder every where. 4 days later and an Insecticide Smoke bomb. Then yesterday I sprayed again giving a thorough soaking into all the crevices- Allowed to nearly dry and ran Mite powder everywhere.

In the meantime the birds were dusted at the same time as the coop treatment. I know there will still be some lurking somewhere so another insecticide bomb in 4 days time might get rid of them temporarily.

This morning I saw bo signs on the vaseline traps I had set but they will be lurking.
 
not all methods work for all people you have to try your own thing and thats what i am doing , i know they will be hiding and in time no doubt i will get hit again but each time it happens you learn to deal with it . i only need to seal up the 4 corners to the house on the out side then thats my whole house complete and sealed the best way i can do which is less hiding places for them if i wasnt so scared of spiders i would love to go out there in the dark with a torch but i cant :lol: going out in the mornings in the dark is kiling me enough let alone during the night time , only killed 2 today .
 
killed loads today , have gutted out the bantams plastic house as thats seems to be getting hit the hardest at the mo so i took out all straw bedding and for now replaced with newspaper as the shavings wont be in tell friday afternoon gave it more then a good spraying with poultry sheild mixed with total mite kill and then swapped nest boxes as the mites seem to love the royal mail post boxes even they are plastic but theres lots of nooks an crannies on it for them to get into the corners as i cleaned one side then turned it around there seemed to be even more of them , i then watercaned loads of p/s etc all over the bantams side of the run and soaked the whole place so i am hoping that has done some good but so far my big new house as been clear of them and i check in the mornings before its light as i have to be at work by 7 am .
but i was thinking about getting hold of a large weed burner thingy and burning the floor of the whole run maybe that might help ?? probably be expensive :-)05 unless my friend has one .
 
I no there a pest but it's no acheivement to boast about, afterall they are a living thing,
 
People on another forum have been going on about how effective and long-lasting Ficam-W is. You dilute a sachet and spray it on, using an ordinary household spray bottle such as for bathroom cleaner etc. It is apparently highly effective at killing both mites and their eggs, so fewer re-emergence problems, and the effects last for a season. It does need to be used with care, you need a mask and gloves, as you would if spraying weedkiller, but a careful adult on a calm day could do the job safely. You have to buy a packet of 10 sachets, which cost about £6.50 each, plus it has to be sent via courier delivery and be signed for, so the cost per sachet is around £8.00. I suspect my friends on the other forum may have been making unofficial private arrangements to share the sachets, though you are not supposed to do this. They say they have obtained supplies from
AFS Animal Care Ltd 01842 765634 [email protected]
also Bowden and Knight
 
Ficam -W is really nasty stuff. Shouldn't be used in any quantity where humans can be exposed to it so dread to think what effect it has on the chickens or anyone going into the coop to clean it out.

We used corrugated cardboard to insulate the coop windows in Winter (converted shed) and the red mite loved it. They crawled into the corrugations and lived very happily. Preferrred that to anywhere else.
 
i am back computer blew up yesterdya thanks to a windows update :evil: :evil: . i have only killed about 10 today the vaseline around everything seems to be working and the girls are back on shavings so hopfully i might be getting on top of them . paddy i know they are a living thing but so are my birds i dont want them being killed along with wild birds { even if they are the ones to blame for spreading it } killing them is the only cure .

think i will give the ficam -w a miss for now .
 
Well Karminski. The red mite device was unveiled in this months PP. Have to say I was rather disappointed that it was just a perch and not something ingenious and hi-tech. I have tried the same approach using large side screens at the ends of the perches soaked in creosote and the ends of the perches also dipped in creosote. Nothing can get around them, just like the PP perch, but hungry empty mite jump off the walls. They feed and can't get jump back so drop onto the floor or stay on the hens. Presume they climb the walls and repeat the process -they keep coming anyway. I've noticed the signs of mite on the coop walls have risen above the height of the screens as well. I'm going to build my heated fly paper device; next week perhaps?
 
Hi I was reading other forum and somone sugested Bros(not sure where from this company is) plate bug killers.They work for few weeks and then you need to replace them,and they not smell.They for sale in Poland I could not see them in England.They suposed to be very effective on flies,moskitos ,fleas and red mite too .I do not know if i can put a link to the shop here but if anyone is interested i can send PM,just let me kno.I hope this is OK.
 
i am killing about 3 - 8 mites per day at the mo and they have been tucked into the corners of the plastic mail boxes that i am using as nest boxes but 3 of them are covered in vaseline and its works well as they get stuck to it . i think today i found what might be a very very small batch of eggs with 3 mites around them they didnt last long :lol: and yesterday i removed some stupid little sticks of wood from the new wooden coop { used to slot the partions of } and found 3 full of blood hiding behind them they soon died .
but yet i have never found any crawling in any of the houses like up the walls of anything kinda missing the popping noise :lol: :lol: .

i put vaseline all around the perch ends and the 2'2s that keep the house up and there as never been a mite in those areas :D
 
tygrysek75 said:
Hi I was reading other forum and somone sugested Bros(not sure where from this company is) plate bug killers.They work for few weeks and then you need to replace them,and they not smell.They for sale in Poland I could not see them in England.They suposed to be very effective on flies,moskitos ,fleas and red mite too .I do not know if i can put a link to the shop here but if anyone is interested i can send PM,just let me kno.I hope this is OK.
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Stick up a link if you like..I sure members would be interested :-)17
 
We have an article on here:

http://poultrykeeper.com/chickens/health/predator-mites-for-red-mite-control.html
 
foxy said:
tygrysek75 said:
Hi I was reading other forum and somone sugested Bros(not sure where from this company is) plate bug killers.They work for few weeks and then you need to replace them,and they not smell.They for sale in Poland I could not see them in England.They suposed to be very effective on flies,moskitos ,fleas and red mite too .I do not know if i can put a link to the shop here but if anyone is interested i can send PM,just let me kno.I hope this is OK.
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Stick up a link if you like..I sure members would be interested :-)17
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Hi this product looks like theese(the link is to the shop selling it) http://sklepagora.pl/bros-plytka-owady-p-266.html Since then I had lokated the company producing this as from Poland ( http://www.bros.pl/index.php?lang=1&s=firm ) ,but maybe you have seen something like theese in England.As from description its work for 3-4 months and aftrwoods you ned to hung a new one.It cost is about £3 which is a dead cheap for the amount of work you have to do to get rid of the mite.
 
I have always used creosote, the old fashioned stuff with all the nasties in it, but now we have white birds and it's a sod to get out if they happen to get any on their feathers, i have been looking for a replacement, found some new stuff on the market made just for redmite, it contains permethrin, the stuff also found in ant powder,(most) but again, it's a dust and can cause havoc in the winter months with birds being in alot more. It's a product called Protector-P from the poultry keeper range, sold through a company called Agropharm Ltd.
So, bought some of the liquid which you squirt in the sheds, and Bingo! It works, it has a residue killer which means it lasts for up to three months, there are also fumers, and a powder to use on the actual bird. The three pronged attack seems to be working, so i would recommend it! :-)17

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