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field-farm-rare-breeds
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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Location: lincs
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 Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject: Red mites!! |
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| Hi ive some hens with red mite i have clean them out every other week, every week when bad weather, but ive heard before that they breed in hot, wooden sheds. Does anyone know of anything to kill them with?? |
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Kitsune
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
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Location: Manchester
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes - you can kill them with sprays like Indorex which you can get from vets/pet stores - most household flea sprays will do as long as they have permethrin in them. |
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field-farm-rare-breeds
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| ohhh wicked thanks alot i have brought some diatom i think its called u dilute it. cheers danielle |
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Kitsune
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Location: Manchester
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:19 am Post subject: |
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| diatom is a powder that you put down on the floor of the coop and in all the cracks and crevasses - it kills the mites by dessication, basically drying them out - it doesn't work when it's wet so needs to be kept dry - what does it say you dilute it with? |
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Elly
Joined: 18 Apr 2008
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Location: Norfolk
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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Give your coop a weekly clean with a dettol solution and allow to dry thoroughly before letting birds back in. I also put a natural mite/louse powder in their bedding and the hemicore we use in the run.
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ashley.crowther
Joined: 10 Sep 2006
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Location: Shropshire, UK
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I used a jeyes fluid solution sprayed on once every two days and that worked. You have to do it thoroughly though. You might want to invest in a hand sprayer thingy or use an old window cleaner container like I did...
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Itsybitsy
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
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Location: Leicestershire
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Elly wrote: | Give your coop a weekly clean with a dettol solution
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Dettol is an antiseptic - it won't kill red mite.
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Elly
Joined: 18 Apr 2008
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Location: Norfolk
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:53 am Post subject: |
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| Itsybitsy wrote: | | Elly wrote: | Give your coop a weekly clean with a dettol solution
Elly |
Dettol is an antiseptic - it won't kill red mite.
Itsybitsy |
Sorry Itsybitsy, but you will find plenty of people who use it and swear by it  Maybe it's a case of those that use do a weekly clean and apply a lot of time to husbandary, I dont know. What I do know is that it works 
If I ever get redmite I'll catch a load and get some of the eggs and let my science mad son do some experiments on what kills them 
Sometimes I think we rely to much on powerful chemicals, spending a fortune at the same time, when basic things can work just as well.
I'm now off to rub my coop with citronella oil to help keep the flies at bay 
Keep smlin
Elly |
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field-farm-rare-breeds
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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Location: lincs
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Ive got some good stuff now and have also used dettol it does infact work!! Tar Much |
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dav
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| im sure i read once in cage and aviary mag, that if you keep a cage full of zebra finches in with your hens you dont get redmite.something to do with the zebras blood,it kills them.might post the question on a cage bird website or even to cage and aviary itself |
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Dirksdonuts
Joined: 16 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Dettol works very well at getting rid of the red mites itsbitsy |
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Elly
Joined: 18 Apr 2008
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Location: Norfolk
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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Good to hear from some fellow dettol users 
Does anyone know a supplier who seels it in larger amounts than the local supermarket? We get through tons of the stuff as we now use it on all our animal pens etc and the bootles run out fast 
What I want to know is where the redmite come from in the first place?
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Autumn
Joined: 27 Jun 2008
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Location: Suffolk
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Aldi's sell a similar antiseptic to dettol for quite a bit less - might be worth a try. I've wondered that too about where red mite come from?! |
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