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Well, I’ve dusted all the chickens 7 days apart now, and yesterday I completely stripped the coop and SOAKED it in Sevin spray, let it dry, and then let the chickens back in for the night after dusting all the roosts, nest boxes, floor (any flat surface) with permethrin mite dust. Today I will...

Omg I’m so sorry! That sounds like an absolute nightmare. In our household I was the only one getting any significant bites (dozens). We have an ozone generator, so we closed off rooms in the house and used the generator to kill off any mites in each room (really REALLY helpful), plus bagged up...

And here is a large one, best pic I could get. They’re tiny and appear silver or gray, unless they’ve just eaten

Is there a difference in size between the mites? Our meat birds (now all butchered this weekend) had mites the worst, when they flapped their wings hard mites would get on me. That’s what makes me wonder if it’s NF mites, because they were on the birds in the middle of the day.

We have a HORRIBLE mite infestation all of a sudden. Had chickens for years and never mites. These mites are absolutely TINY, like, pencil dot sized, and leave miserable bites on me, too. Our birds have an 8’ x 8’ coop built into our barn/shed, which is shared by barn cats. They free range and...