This past weekend my Dad who is 87 years old and in the middle stages of vascular dementia comes in and announces, your chickens have mites... Yikes!!! I tell myself ok stay calm you were president of the 4-H club, you fetched your own eggs as a child for breakfast, damn you can run a code and save a human life...surely you can save six little hens from mites.
Umm what is a mite? where did my chickens pick up these little bugs, they haven't been out of their yard...it isn't like your children is exposed to day care issues.
Off to Google I go - wow there are a million links to read on chicken mites. But I settled on one,
The Chicken Chick - "
Poultry Lice and Mites Identification and Treatment by Kathy Shea Mormino "
I quickly felt more in control - I made a note card and added the link to Evernote. Off to Tractor Supply I went. It is amazing what I can find at Tractor Supply.
Picked up Garden & Poultry Dust with Permethrin and some Sevin Dust 5%. I also picked up some scratch - because I have been feeding them wild bird feed when I wanted them to have something extra. I also picked up a bag of mealworms. I can't wait to see what they do with these. The doggies also got treats and fly spray.
I am not sure what we did on Sunday afternoons before Tractor Supply came to town.
So, I am feeling pretty good about being able to handle the mites - I can't wait to see what other adventure occurs in my little urban farm.
Happy Thursday
~ Connie ~
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