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Two months ago we discovered them and I proceeded to take apart the coop and pressure wash all the components. Then made a solution of 60/40 Isopropyl and water (It's what I had handy) and sprayed every crack and gasket. Aside: They're called "Blood Mites" (Blutmilben) in German. Kinda Metal.

I had no illusions that they wouldn't come back and indeed they did.

I wonder if there's anything that can realistically be done about those buggers and if it's even worth doing so. Want to avoid chemicals as much as possible.

Any helpful hints from other chiggin wranglers?

Two months ago we discovered them and I proceeded to take apart the coop and pressure wash all the components. Then made a solution of 60/40 Isopropyl and water (It's what I had handy) and sprayed every crack and gasket. Aside: They're called "Blood Mites" (Blutmilben) in German. Kinda Metal. I had no illusions that they wouldn't come back and indeed they did. I wonder if there's anything that can realistically be done about those buggers and if it's even worth doing so. Want to avoid chemicals as much as possible. Any helpful hints from other chiggin wranglers?

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[–] 1 pt

Red mites? Think they are chiggers? If you got any chigger weed get rid of it, spray to kill it don't get near or you'll have to treat yourself too if you have other animals they might have caught them too. You can try diatomaceous earth but get food grade and wear a respirator, and expect your chickens to live only about 80% as long as you expected.

Two ways to treat chiggers in humans is spend a day in a bath tub to deprive the skin burrowing buggers of air or paint over the skin they inhabit with nail polish, I suggest the water unfortunately.

If it's chiggers they came back from eggs laid in the chickens' skin or more came off the chigger weed, do web searches as needed, chigger weed is common.

[–] 2 pts

Think we have some wild carrot here, if that's the same thing. Going to check it out, thanks!

[–] 1 pt (edited )

It is, we have so much in my neck of the woods that chigger weed is the common name here so I often forget the more known names are Queen Anne's Lace or wild carrot.

I hear guinea fowl will eat the chiggers if they infest your coops, but chickens typically wont.

When you get near them wear some OFF and I recommend killing the weeds with the meanest pesticides to hand and even then the weed will probably come back, chiggers like to live in the flowers but could be anywhere on the plant and will often jump at any tall things in the vicinity, they will get everywhere if you bump the flower so aim for the root of the weed. with a pesticide spray, even a small gust will make them scatter and jump from the flowers.

Good luck, my great grandpa always told me chiggers were a nightmare if they got to livestock. I hope there's better options these days cause he just quarantined and slaughtered the infected ones, he told me he caught chiggers on himself about every other week that summer and gave up live stock when they found some natural gas on his land mostly because of his experience with chiggers, the man was no dummy either, he was an engineer during WW2 and actually worked at oak ridge from it's founding until the 60s.