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Chicken Raising Tip:

Chicken Mites LOVE this hot and humid weather, and just a few appearing will likely within days turn into an infestation.
They can really irritate your chickens, and even worse, they jump on you when you go into your chicken coop! Yuck!

If you suddenly find mites in your chickencoop, here is what I do.

Keep your chicken coop clean. Clean it and replace wood chips as often as possible, to keep it dry & clean.

Every year, I make sure to have diatomaceous earth on hand (food grade is sold at your local feed stores), and I also save ASH out of our fireplace and pellet stoves in a galvanized steel trash can.

I "powder" the chicken coop in this redneck fashion...I take my leaf blower, and blow it into the chicken coop (do this with your chickens outdoors not in the coop) and I slowly shake a small scoop of diatomaceous earth in front of the leaf blower nozzle to "fog" the entire chicken coop, let the powder settle.