[nails]

We have lost a couple of our chicks over the last week or so, last night i pulled another dead one out the run, about half hour later i was itching all over, then my body just felt like it was crawling, then i see this little speck on me, and another and another!!!! Found the reason why i had lost my little ones!!! all birds treated now, so hopefully got them in time.
My question is how do they spread?
and also i am still finding them on me, despite 2 showers all the clothes have been washed, but now when i sit down at my kitchen table i start itching so they are obviously in the kitchen as well now, can i spray a light solution on the stuff i have for the houses in my home to kill any that i obviously brought in on me?

[northfifeduckling]

I don't think they will settle on you - the ones that do won't go for our feathered friends (variety  :&>head lice and and the "private" kind). Obviously they spread through contact, by casually walking across 

[jaykay]

Were they lice (tiny but long bodies, pale grey or brown) or red mites (rounder bodies, dark grey or red)

[Womble]

Or even bird fleas perhaps? (a bit like cat fleas, but slower, and easier to squish!).

[shetlandpaul]

you can get the lice on you but they won't live on you. i think you have mite problem and they do bite and will need killing.

[nails]

Hopefully started to get this problem under control, they looked like tiny specks of dust, def not red mite, they look brown.

[northfifeduckling]

mites. I remember that they can be brownish. If you squish one that has fed it will be very red indeed...