Chicken MITES and LICE! 😭😱 The BEST Natural Treatments ❤️🐔
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- Henlo! I am The President of Chickenlandia and I want to welcome you to Chickenlandia, a magical place where my pet chickens (and a few ducks) live an awesome life. In this video, I talk about natural ways of treating and preventing mites and lice in your backyard chickens. Hope you love it! #chickenlandia #welcometochickenlandia #urbanchickens
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Henlo all! I'd like to clarify something: I mention in this video that ivermectin may carry a greater risk for chickens than diatomaceous earth. Ivermectin is a relatively benign medication that has been around for a long time. With birds, the risk comes with injecting it. There is also the risk of over-medicating them if you don't have the correct oral or topical dose. I recommend working with a veterinarian (if possible) if you wish to use ivermectin for your flock.
Literally my head itches now. 🤣😂
RIGHT?? lol
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Oh you should have seen me!! 😂😱😂
Me to
Dude, everytime I watch these treatment videos my face is constantly itching all over. Brrrrrrrrr
Hello! I’m a 13 year old with a obsession with chickens. My family and I went on a vacation and when we came back, my chickens had mites! My whole family avoided my for several days out of fear of catching mites! This video really helped me. Thanks!
Love it!!
I had chickens at 13 also, now 58 and still have chickens
This is so sweet 🥰
I love that you have chickens
Chickens are awesome! I had one for 8 years when I was younger until stupid animal control took her away.
I’m pretty sure there are thousands of ladies across the USA that have adopted you as our “ chicken sister “ 😂❤️🙏
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I cant believe you have haters, your the most real down to earth straight to the point super funny informative TH-camr
Aww thank you so much! Haters just gotta hate LOL
You should have no haters. Whomever is hating on this lovely chicken lover needs to stop. Girl, you're awesome! I've had chickens for 3 years now, and you've given so much helpful information. Thank you!
Thank you so much!
So glad to have you as a reliable resource! I had already seen a previous video of yours about dust baths, so I ordered DE and herbs. I just got my orders delivered the other day and its time to clean the coop!
Yay!! I'm so glad I can help.
I know this video is 2 years old BUT I just wanted to say that DE has been such a blessing and a Godsend for us. I couldn’t agree with you more! The misinformation out there to steer people away from truly good products is (or should be) so obvious now with everything going on in the past few years. I’m not new to chicken keeping but I haven’t had them for years and I am starting again with my little flock of 8. Loved a few of your videos so far and look forward to watching many more. Thankyou!
I love how conversational you are and how non judgmental. Thank you for being specific and thorough.
Yay!!
I really appreciate your compassion, upbeat vibe and wealth of knowledge. You rock!
We had to start using DE for our pet rats for the same reasons. So interesting to learn more about bird wellness.
I'm so thankful for all the wonderfull, easy to digest content you provide at no cost. You really are saving the world. Thank you President
Aww thank you so much!
WONDERFUL information! Way to have the backbone to stand for what WORKS for you contrary to popular opinion; I love DE and it has saved my girls (who I also LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!) more than once. I now mix a small amount in their feed! SUBSCRIBED!!
I grow marigolds in mass each year. Dried flowers of marigolds has the permethrin. Goes in the nest box and dust bath. If the chooks eat the flowers their yolks get very orange. Love using FGDE BTW.
Love all your videos! You are so REAL! My first chicks should arrive this coming week. I am so excited!
I’m glad you mentioned that chickens can definitely gets mites in winter! My poor rooster suffered an infestation in January, and we’re in eastern Canada. Diatomaceous earth saved the day (with some help from garlic)!
I'm so glad you were able to handle it!
How did you use the DE and the garlic? Did you put the garlic in their water?
@@Lilybellarose505 I would like to know the answer like you . Thank you ..
Diatomaceous earth of any type is harmful to the respiratory system of chickens. Their respiratory systems are delicate and easily damaged by breathing it in which is unavoidable if used in their dust baths or on their bodies. Use 100% sulfur, instead.@@Lilybellarose505
I freaking LOVE your personality and your videos!!!! Perfect President of Chickenlandia!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Aww thank you!
I bought a flowering chrysanthemum plant... and put it next to the poultry wire for my chickens... they nibbled all the little buds off the areas where it hadn't flowered out yet. they loved it. I figure that's helpful, since chrysanthemums are the source of pyrethrum.
DE - wonderful stuff!! My son infected the guest room with bed bugs from his luggage after he came back from Dubai. I dusted the mattress, the pillows, the plinths and rugs etc etc and no more bedbugs! Ants in the kitchen? Easy peasy - DE along their walking paths. I rub DE in the cracks of the chicken coop and like you, add it to their dust bath and nesting boxes. Happy chickens! Kids arguing over the TV remote? I dust them with DE and the little pests just melt away! Just kidding.
So glad I found your channel. Learning a lot, thanks!
LOL you had me there for a second!
Made me laugh hardddd😂😂😭😂😅
I honestly eradicated my home of bed bugs with DE. It took about two years; however, if I would have been more persistent, I probably could have done it within a year. Of course it took more than DE, but the DE was what eventually broke the bed bug cycle. The DE done at least 75-80% of the work. So, I'm a firm believer in DE, and was downright proud of myself. It took so much research on those little bastards as well. It almost 99% of the time takes professional Pest Control to eradicate bedbugs
Glad you are bed bug free! I never ever ever want to see another one again! Talkin' about psychological warfare! My ex wife could snooze like a baby every night with those damn things crawling all over her! I was like a kid on Nightmare on Elm Street- do not fall asleep!
I bought DE from a farm and feed store (it has a picture of horses and farm animals on the bag) but it's grey, not white. Did I buy the bad kind?
We also have bees (on the opposite side of the yard from the chicken run) so I don't want to use the other insecticides.
This has been so educational and helpful! Thank you for thoroughly going through the top FAQs as well as remedies.
Saw you post in the backyard chickens group on Facebook. You are such a joy to watch and I’m learning so much already. I just watched a few of your videos and if it wasn’t way past my bedtime I would watch many more! I’m so inspired to really do so much more for my girls. I love the little xylophone you have in the coop! I also think your birds are beautiful. Looks like you have some serma bantams which I want so badly. We are first time chicken owners and have 18. We recently lost one because she was a runt and another because of a hawk. We are working on trying to secure our yard, but it’s large and they beg us daily to get out of the run. They love free ranging. I work from home so sometimes I go outside to babysit them with my laptop! Ha anyway, thank you for putting out such great quality content for us crazy chicken people! 💕
Awww! You are so welcome. Seramas are awesome! I love them.
Madame President dropping knowledge bombs about DE
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Your video was very well done. I enjoyed watching. Thank you for sharing! I subscribed and put notifications on, so keep them coming.
I had a nasty infestation a few weeks ago when my broody hen sat for 3 weeks and didn't bathe. When she finally vacated the nest I went to clean it all out and I was covered in mites. 3 days later, I was covered in extremely itchy mite bites! Imagine how it is for our girls?
My solution when cleaning out the nesting box was to spray eucalyptus and let it evaporate (very strong not good in large doses) I then put lots of wormwood, tansy and lavender in the boxes and there hutch. The coup has lemon balm, wormwood and tansy growing so they are walking through that all the time. mites don't like strong smells. I also add apple cider vinegar and garlic to their water. She's all better now and my bites have gone.
I'm so glad it worked well for you!
i know, those bites are terrible and very painful.
Tansy is deadly toxic to animals if they eat it. It’s illegal to even have it growing on your property in WA state.
Great job on the videos. I found them recently and subscribed. We got chickens and ducks for the first time t his year. So far no problems but I'm trying to learn so I can avoid the unexpected and have happy birds. Thanks for the info!
great stuff and very informative! I like your friendly smile as well - it just makes the watching experience so much better
Thank you!
excellent explanation of terrain theory, nice job! thank you so much for everything!
Man I just found your site. You really had alot of details I didn't know or think of. I really like your narrations style. I was itching I must admit!
This is really my first year with chicken lice and having to treat. I LOVe and appreciate your videos! I'm mixing up wood ash and DE today!
It's such a pain!! I hope you can resolve it quickly and I'm glad it was helpful. 🥰
Great vid!. Had a new girl come into my flock from unknown farm . Adopted her because the rooster almost fully pecked her eye out 😥 she was starting to do much better with us and her eye was healing nice . Then came out one morning and she wouldn't come out . Checked on her and she wasnt hardly moving. Looked closer and she was covered in red mites!! Got her out of the coop and they were all over "her" nesting box. Unfortunately she did not recover from the infestation.
That day built new coop for the rest of the flock and burned the other one haha now i use ash for there baths and sprinkle around the cracks of the coop when cleaning . Mites cant breath in fire place ash 😊
Whoa! That'll take care of the problem! I'm glad you were able to handle it so swiftly. Mites are so awful!
Hi, I want to thank you for all your videos. Very informative and learning a lot from you before I start my little flock. I started with Quails and now moving to chickens. Once again thank you from SJ, CA
Awww! Thank you so much!
Got some Chickens in Newark, CA. Want to move to quails or pigeons, but chickens are enough for me... for now
Thank you for always providing helpful information. I need to go check our chickens. I just cleaned the coop and nest boxes and then treated with DE but didn't treat the chickens. Thank you!
You're so welcome!
Here's another affordable natural option which has definitely dealt with the issue for me. Having a contained suburban run mixed with the humid weather in my location, it's a very common problem for most chicken owners around here. Into a spray bottle, mix 1 part vegetable oil (or other edible oil) to 2 parts water. Add a very small squirt of dishwash liquid (just enough to emulsify the mix when shaken) and a few drops of essential oil if you have them (lemongrass, lavender etc). This mixture can be spayed directly on the birds feet and any coop surfaces such as the roosts that you find mites - both as treatment and deterrent. Dust baths are a must and if you can afford it, adding DE / dried herbs from someones garden to the coop bedding has completely eliminated the problems. This spray was a game changer for me. Great channel BTW!
Cool!!
I have tried that as well! Same solution! Not sure if it was that or putting DE and ash directly in their nesting boxes. My chickens aren't very friendly w me, but I know they're putting that chicken butt down in the nesting box. Lol?
What kind of herbs?
@@janzoo1111 Lavender, lemon balm, peppermint and thyme should be ok.
If you're spraying this mixture on the chickens, won't their diry bath stick and make a heck of a mess??
And I think my rooster has mites on his comb, would I be able to spray this there? Worried about his eyes.
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Thank you so much I’m a new chicken mom and I definitely needed this video as my 2 girls ( chickens) are going there this as we speak at first I thought they were molting but no that was not the case
Appreciate the info and your adorable personality!
Aww thank you!
Thank you so much for this educative yet profoundly simple and very interesting video. I just began a small chicken keeping project here in Africa, Kenya - of about 50 one-month-old chicken, and am learning a lot as a brand new chicken farmer, hoping to one day go big commercially in well kept and healthy chicken. You are such an inspiration. Thank you so much..!
Wow, that's amazing! Good luck!
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Thank you so much! Really kind of you to wish me well. I will put in my very best effort and though this a part time personal job, am sure it will do just fine. Again, i sincerely appreciate your reply and great insights on how to reduce cost of chicken feed by soaking the oat meal in clean jars to increase feed volume, and the chickens love it! Appreciated.
Ifollowed some of the advise you shared on preparing chicken feed and am glad it worked out just perfectly. Thank you so much! I have 50 birds now. I sincerely appreciate.
Omg! How is it going? I know it's a year later, but I hope you were successful!
@@brianmboya6590 hope everything is doing fine brother. I too just started commercial chicks. Got 50 1.5months chicks and 150 baby chicks. I realized a day ago that there are some mites/lice, which probably led to loss of 4baby chicks 😳. I'm hoping to try and use the recommendation provided here. However most of the names she used, I have never heard about them and will be looking whether I can find them from agrovet tomorrow. I will really appreciate to hear from you whether you have ever faced the same issue, and how you dealt with it.
OMGOODNESS I just love you! You have helped me so much! I started with one baby chick found in a parking lot. Wasn't set up for chickens so raised this chick in the house. She got 2 sister the next year. And this year I got 5 babies. I have loved your videos! Thanks!
Great video, tons of great info! We have had chickens for 5 years now. We live in a rural area and the chickens are all over our pasture, free to do whatever. The have two large coops that they are secured in at night. We also have a livestock guardian dog Heidi that helps keep the chickens safe. We just added a Black copper Maran hen a year ago. She has the strange habit of molting in the spring. No other hen does this now I think it could be mites. Thanks to your video. I believe in diatomaceous earth 100%. So going to give that a try and see if this stops the feather loss. Thanks.
You're so welcome! 🐔
Very informative! Thank you for this video..
I've always used FGDE with my chickens, never had any issues with it harming them, us nor our dogs. Now that we have a pellet stove, I'll add the wood ash. I also much prefer natural treatments to chemical ones and feed my flock organic feed, it's healthier for them and for us...after all, whatever they eat goes into their eggs, and we eat their eggs. ❤️💛💜
Good wormer too.
I use DE on my dog after she was infested with fleas from the neighborhood cats (we have a catch and release spay program for cats where I live). I put it in my chicken's dust bath, just because I heard they can get fleas, too. Thanks for the confirmation that I am doing right by my girls!
Diatomaceous earth of any type is harmful to the respiratory system.
I just love you! Thank you for your great videos!
How often can we give fresh table scraps?
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your channel! Very informative, thank you!🌸🏵️💮🌺🌻🌼🌷🌹🏵️💮🌸
You are so welcome!
I put a layer of wood ash in the coop then I put their bedding- it works great to kill bugs. I also use DE food grade, lime powder in there dust bath.
Thank you for these wonderful tips. 💖
Thank you so much for the help!
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Hi ,love your video and have found it very useful.I must confess my chickens did get mites,what a nightmare ,we had a infestation.The worst thing was I got the mites and at night I could not stop itching ,the mites where so so tiny you could hardly see them .We had to burn the coop down as we tried everything to get rid of them ,lucky the chickens survived .Never again,so I do most of what you say .What herbs do you put in the dust bath?I love your idea of the dust bath in winter and the cider vinigar!thanks you are videos are informational and inspiring!
This vides was very helpful for me & gave me some great ideas for how to make a good indoor dusting area for the chickens
I’m so glad!
I'll have to keep a lookout. My horse had live a few winters ago YUK. New chicken mom here. Thanks for sharing.
Quebec Homestead oh man. I’ve had goats get them and it’s not fun at all!
Love your teaching and your smile. Thank you
You’re so welcome!
I'm so thankful to have found your channel!! I am a new chicken owner:) I'm totally paranoid about mites etc. The girls are friendly but are still not being held yet as they have only been here about 10 days. How could I know if they have mites? Im so itchy just thinking about it!!
You could wait until the go to the roost at night and then look them over. They are usually easy to handle at night. :)
Great information, I love watching your videos! So funny when the ducks got noisy!
Haha they like being loud!!
I screamed YES! when you raved about D.E. That stuff is my best friend and I put it everywhere. 3 days after I brought my chickens home, I got up to see how they were doing and I was HORRIFIED to see billions of tiny ants. They were EVERYWHERE!!!! I have a good friend who raises chickens and I’m crying and sobbing on the phone to her and sniveling so bad, she said “Who IS this?” She told me to run down to Tractor Supply and get the biggest bag of food-grade D.E. they have and sprinkle it lightly in all the places they’re crawling and put a little in their food. Literally, the next morning there were ant carcasses all over the place but, not a single live ant! Overnight! When I clean out the coop, chicken run and especially the beginning of spring, I sprinkle it all over. Plus, I mix a small amount in their food and sprinkle it around the perimeter of their chicken run and even my house, cuz they were coming in my house, too. Eeeuuww!
TS does not carry food grade they carry feed grade...there is a huge difference.
DE food grade is good for humans as well. I take it everyday.
@@pamelasandstrom4401 why do you eat it?
I love your videos!!! Thanks from Texas😃
Aww! Thank you.
Thank so much for the great info. I am new to this and I always come back to you for info. My chickens have become my babies /girls.
Love them.
I have owned dogs for 36 years and in that time we have had a mild outbreak of fleas twice in really bad seasons. I used diatomaceous earth on my dogs after bathing and drying. As well, using and extra fine sieve, I sprinkled diatomaceous earth throughout the house and have had no problems and used no harsh chemicals.
I'm gonna try this THIS year. Last year my poor dogs got infested in fleas for the first time ever and we tried almost everything to get rid of them. We ended up coating them in coconut oil, it worked to get the fleas off and keep them off but my dogs got a little sick from licking the oil off
I did it too. It works!
I use de food grade in my hens nesting box and wood ash on the ground where they due there dust bath at and I have no issue with dust mites I also feed them garlic powder daily
Good info. I have been using Food grade DE for a number of years and have not had any problems.
Watching from Philippines very impormative vlog..wow amazing
I love you frames and the information you give out. thank you presidente
Hi New here!! Treating these nasty mites now!! Thanks for the advice!!
All 80 of my chickens have mites. Its a constant battle. The mites attach to the quill at the skin and eat the chicken till the feather is weak and blood leaks into the feather quill and becomes like a feeding tube for the mites. I think cleaning the coop where they sleep with a torch of some kind. Like sweeping it out with a flame. Of course you dont let the coop catch on fire but just running the flame around so the heat can get into the nooks and crannies.
Thank you for all this info throwing out more grit and oyster shells just noticed running low 😁
Do you just throw them out in a little pile somewhere in the run? Or sorta everywhere in the run?
@@Fattiapples I. Grit and crushed oyster shells I put in a small feeder 1 part oyster shell to 3 part grit and as my layer feed has oyster shells added also my DE I saved a old baby powder bottle so when cleaning coup out I spray floor down with DE cover with shavings and sprinkle some over hay in nest boxes do same through out run and into their dusting box have never see one mite I have the mid size over ez coup as only have 10 hens so I clean coup once a month would do it by weekly but work has been working me 7 days a week since nov 3 rd i saw I have a day off this coming week so can finally clean coup it’s Sunday and I am heading in to work just glad to be working
@@danielleterry180 thank you Danielle for your detailed response! I was worried how much de to use, didn’t want to upset the chickens respiratory systems. Hmm I have two large feeders suspended from the top beam of the coop (if lasts about a week before I need to refill them) not sure if I could put in another smaller feeder with oyster and grit. I tried putting grit in a small metal bowl but they knocked that right over so I just put it on the floor lol I also have 10 chickens :) so cute. I was trying to do the deep litter method but then just watched a video of a lady saying she doesn’t do it for her chickens because of possible buildup of funky stuff and mites etc. so now I’m at a loss, and especially if I add de to deep litter that might mess up the microbe levels. Oh dear. So good to know maybe I have to clean the litter out every month instead 🤔
Thank you for turning my stressful situation into a relaxing yet motivating cup of coffee. Subscribe button mashed, and to my girls I go. Blessings.
Good video informative always happy and uplifted after watching your videos thank you for sharing!!!
You are so welcome!
Had this moment this morning.. I'm a total noobie & my partner has a few very old birds.. We lost an old girl this morning & I discovered she was absolutely covered in mites!! I freaked the f out & it's really ruined my day! Thanks for this video.. I feel much better now. 😂
Captivating chicken lady with lots of great videos
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Extremely helpful, thanks. We only have four chickens and while they started laying two to three eggs a day from last spring (NZ spring), they’ve laid barely an egg a day for the last few months (it’s at the end of our winter), so do you think some of the issues you’ve mentioned might be contributing to the problem. They look healthy and roam freely where there are lots of places to scratch and dust bathe.
Love the chicken spa !
Thank you for a great channel we just bought chickens 3 months ago and they got mites just bought DE but it has been poring down so haven't been able to put any other than inside the coop
Cant clean the coop either due to the heavy rain will it still work
The DE won't work if it gets wet. It has to be really dry for it to work. :-)
@@WelcometoChickenlandia been using DE for 2 weeks now not one mite or bug in sight 😍😍🥰🥰😃
Love your video's but I am really rocking all your different glasses! :)
Thank you for the video! Have you tried lime? I got some first Saturday lime but I'm not finding many videos on it. I'd love to see a comparison between DE and Lime if you have time. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🐓
I subscribe to you just now for the mere fact that you mentioned chicken alarmists. LOL well and I guess you know a thing or two about chickens too! 🤗
LOL yay! Thank you!
That was great thank you for sharing 👌🏾
You’re so welcome!
“Whatever Haters!!!”😂😂❤️❤️
That's right LOL!
Thanks for the information
Love your videos, such great info! I’m new to chicken keeping. I have made dust baths and tried putting them in multiple locations and my chickens will not use them. 😕 Is there any way to get my chickens interested in using the dust bath? By the way, thank you for explaining DE.
I have the same problem. I set it up where they used to dust bathe and they are just not interested.
Thanks for all the information shared....madam president😊😊
You’re so welcome!
I put together a really nice dust bath in a large plastic tote. My girls would only stand in it. I finally gave up and just dumped it out into their run where I saw them dusting at times. I do keep my coop very clean and well dusted with DE. Hope it’s enough to keep the bloodsuckers at bay.
Sometimes it takes them a while to figure out the dustbath thing!
amazing videos very informative
There's Food grade D. Earth and its amazing!! It was the only thing that got rid of carpet Beatles. They came into my house through hand me down clothes. For 6 years I couldn't completely get rid of these things. Within about two days of Putting the power In Just the corners of cabinets... they were dead and never came back. Amazing! Just don't breathe it in the powder is bad for your lungs
I just got a rooster that I’ve kept in quarantine and right when we got him his legs looked off....raised scales near his feet and his feet and legs were abnormally red. I’ve been treating is as scaly leg mites and as opposed to Vaseline I read some sources say to use castor oil. It’s taken almost a month but I’m finally noticing improvement. Legs aren’t as red and scales don’t look as raised.
Me and my mom are so disturbed by mites.
There are lots of tiny farms in the backyard of homes in Seattle and local area. They have tours once a year. (When I was there, 5 years ago).
I have been using Hi- Yield Garden, Pet & Livestock, liquid in a pump spray for the coop and run, and the dust for the chickens. works great no flies, and chickens are healthy and happy.
Is it Permethrin? I'm going to look it up! :-)
@@WelcometoChickenlandia I see it has 10% of Permethrin.
Love your personality
Thank you!
Diatomaceous earth sounds like a better option. Food grade for safety..
I have a young chicken in my "chicken rehab" I have set up in the basement. I brought her in after finding her on the ground in the coup not moving. It appeared she got picked on pretty bad by one of the other guys. My poor little Freya...she's one of my favorites. She was very alert, but couldn't stand. I couldn't find any broken bones. After lots of research, I found a good recipe to get nutrition back into her system, the "Rickets Diet". She's been inside for two weeks now, and doing so much better. However, as I was sitting on the floor with her on my lap giving her light strokes on her neck, I noticed little tan things crawling on my leg. Well....being new to this, you can image how I freaked out. I put her back in her crate, removed all of my clothes, threw them in the washer, ran upstairs buck naked (thank god no one was home!) and jumped in the shower. After much research, I believed it to be lice. Googling how to get rid of.... I found you. You don't know how happy I found you!! I can tell I am going to learn so much. Thankfully I have DE powder. Had the husband pick it up the other day. I always like to have it on hand. Thank you for your very informative video. I'm looking forward to watch more!
You're so welcome!
How is Freya? Was it hard to get rid of the lice?
How often do you apply the poultry dust to the chickens? It doesn’t say on the container.
up here in Toronto, Lice buster spray with Dimethicine on it is the only product that has worked and is its available on Amazon:)
I use covered kitty litter box for dust bathing. You suggested it, and I thought it was great. My hens love them as laying boxes. They prefer to dust bathe in the dirt in their pen. 😂
Dear chickenlandia I owe this information to you and your followers because i like this channel a lot. So i've been raising chickens for ten years now and I can assure you that if you apply olive oil onto the treating areas (under wings, vent, back, neck) the parasites drown in the oil. You can immediately see the dead mites and lice as you apply it.The oil remains on the chickens and spreads evenly on the whole body for about 2 to 3 days ( depending on the quantity you used) and functions as a trap for the mites that climb on the chickens during the night. I highly recommend that you try it and share the results with the community. Note that I have also tried sunflower oil and didn't work. It kinda dried out and ruined the feathers. Good luck, greetings from Greece.
One more thing to explain how this works. The parasites are so small in size that a film of oil is like a swimming pool for them and they drown in it. Finally not that I have done this in mild weather conditions of spring or autumn. I don't know if the oil freezes in cold or is dangerous in hot summer.
We use DE all the time and have never had a problem with it. We have a bunch of kids and a bunch of different animals and this is the safest, easiest, best thing we've found.
What is meant by DE ?
@@NS.GARDENS123 diatomaceous earth.
@@amandaguidry4242 ok thanks for ur instant reply
@@NS.GARDENS123 lol I had just happened to pick up my phone and got the notification. You're welcome
How much do you put in their dust bath ?
Love the videos
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Okay, I'll get to it tomorrow morning. I had it stored thinking they can start having it closer to when they were going to start laying eggs lol
If I have a regular back yard such as grass, how to ensure my chickens get grit?
I bought a mixture of bentonite clay and diatomaceous earth. Is this safe for my new chicks to eat, and then later as chickens. Lots of information on diatomaceous earth, but not too much on bentonite clay or the mixture of the two. Thanks so much! Love your videos!
Hello! I love watching your videos. I have a question about DE. I have bought some food grade DE. I also plan to do the deep litter method in the coop. That being said, can I do a dust bath outside the coop eith the DE and still do deep litter successfully?
I have chickens, and my sister has a faborite. She hugs it everyday, however, one day she got black bugs on her skin and hair. We later found out it was mites. God.. She plucked so many feathers out!
Diatomaceous earth is amazing! We had a massive flea infestation one drought year and it was only thing that got rid of them.