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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Heather B on May 07, 2014, 02:36:06 pm

Title: Red mite again!
Post by: Heather B on May 07, 2014, 02:36:06 pm

The little b......s are back again!  Has anyone tried the Chicken House smoke fumer thing which Regency Poultry are selling?   ???

Title: Re: Red mite again!
Post by: chrismahon on May 07, 2014, 03:23:56 pm

I haven't Heather B. But have just dismantled an infested chicken coop and creosoted it. The little devils were well inside the wood boarding and all the joints and I can't imagine a fumer getting anywhere near them. I creosoted the inside and then sprayed the outside with Nettex total mite kill, to get the thousands of escapees.


Next day we had a load more on the outside -newly hatched and looking for a meal!