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Our chickens have never had lice or mites; the DE is just a precaution against them. The container of food grade DE was my mother's idea; she had read about it. I definitely did not expect them to dustbathe in pure DE, and when I asked Mom about that, she said it would help with scaly leg mites...

Interesting thread. I will be watching it! As for me, we use food grade DE in a container in the coop. They do not dust bathe in it, but they dip their feet in. It hasn't helped or harmed in any visible way. But, then again, this is my first year keeping chickens, and I don't have much...