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Mites infestation! But what type?(youtu.be)

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I cleaned the chicken coop last week, and to my horror the next day I found millions of these little buggers crawling around the edge of the bin lid.

I’ve disenfected the coop and chickens, and will be doing it again on Friday to capture any survivors. The coop is plastic, so they were living in the wood shavings.

Unfortunately I got mites all over me, and I have gotten bitten BAD. I have bites all over me :( Makes me feel bad for the chickens, but I’ll be doing a better job from this point.

My question is what are they? I’m from the UK and they don’t look like “red mites” that are common in Europe. I can’t find any on the chickens themselves but the coop was rampant with them. And they like human flesh, I tell you that now!

The link of this post is a video of one of the only survivors from my onslaught of the bin today.

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To combat these I have Permethrin based sprays to disinfect the coop, and Ivermectin spot-on for the chickens will arrive on Friday. I’ll treat the chickens and disenfect the coop again. I know its not organic but this infestation needs everything I can throw at it.

For long term, I have a big bag of DE which I’ve chucked everywhere and got some organic spray for the chickens.

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