[desertmum]

We have chicken mites  - have sprayed the coop, treated the chickens, burnt all the old sawdust etc.and they are back again.  Am seriously considering burning the coop and getting a new one.  If I do that do I need to treat the soil/outside runs?  The bloody things are driving me - and the chooks - mad. 

[twizzel]

2nd the burning option- my house had terrible red mite and despite regular spraying with poultry guard and diatomaceous earth sprinkled it never really helped. We burnt it along with all the other smaller coops and started again- the new house we made from scratch and liberally painted with creosote inside and out before the hens moved in.