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Here are the photos the museum sent me from their microscope if anyone is interested.

Thank you and thank you so much for your willingness to help and useful suggestions. I’ve implemented a lot of your practices and I think it’s for the better.

I guess so? I’ve learnt so much about mites throughout this process. I think I’m always going to be much more vigilant and consistent with preventative measures into the future. The threat may still be there in some degree (rat mites will migrate and bite birds/dogs/people if they have no...

Just to close off the mystery of this thread… So the museum was able to confirm the mites in my backyard as Ornithonyssus genus, but didn’t have the skill to identify down to species. Which means my vet misidentified them from my picture and they didn’t come from the infestation that prompted...

To update on this thread, I’ve come to a tentative conclusion that my vet was wrong about the mites in my backyard being Dermanyssus gallinae nymphs. I have a suspicion they are actually a predatory soil mite along the lines of Hypoaspis miles — or if actually a parasitic mite, must be...

I’m glad you saved that puppy but I do feel sorry for the scorpion!

I have another update. I believe I have figured it out (or at least the most probable explanation). A couple of months ago my partner brought home all this old wood from a friend’s place, including stumps, logs, etc. I set up a bunch of pieces around the yard for chicken enrichment. I have...

Oh well all soil is a combination of clay/sand/loam. I just meant the soil here is very heavily clay. Trying to dig it up results in big chunks of clay. I’d probably need gypsum as well as sand. Might be easier just to get the sand.

I wish! The soil here is clay. There is no sand. But I will look into finding some.

It's been such a weird experience. After finding them on the poop but not on birds or coop, and now in various wood bits, I'm not sure if I feel relieved or even more anxious. They are a common mite I suppose and I've thought as well there must be some degree of population free living in the...

You hate to say it and I hate to hear it! But I know it’s true. Thanks for the advice re: Healesville. I actually grew up down that way. I’ve decided to do as suggested here and leave the work to the folks who own the property and offer my advice if they want it. My next news/update: I did...

The coop floor is concrete so it would be fine for the big girls, but good to have at least a thin layer of something as chicks will hatch in a couple of weeks and I don’t want them to slip. What would you recommend? Sand? I’ve been thinking about sand but it would cost a fair bit to get enough...

I know! I feel like one day I will have dealt with every single chicken issue. It’s just been one thing after another ever since I got them. With respect to the mites, I’m lucky that my coop is a converted tin shed with concrete floor and very minimal structural wood. There are only some wooden...

I spoke to my avian vet… So to update: The mites in both pictures I shared on this thread are Dermanyssus gallinae — red poultry mite. The second picture is a younger mite in an earlier life stage. So far I have encountered no mites in my coop or on any of my birds and I am checking...

I have and I’m fairly certain the first one I took a picture of (that came directly from the infestation) was a red poultry mite. These ones that I’m finding outside on the poop look similar but not exactly the same. It’s hard because they have several different stages in their life cycle. I...

Does this still look like a red poultry mite? I can see no evidence of mites on the chicks or in their coop. I looked each of them over very thoroughly last night and saw not a speck. But when I scoop up their poop outside once or twice daily on the grass/dirt, I see mites running away from...

So I spent 9 hours yesterday taking everything out of their chicken & peafowl coops, burning the bedding, pressure washing the frame/boxes/roosts, blow drying with a leaf blower and then first spraying permethrin everywhere I could and then spreading Pestene (rotenone & sulfer) dust. The mites...

I found one of the mites in my car and put it under the microscope.

Okay that’s reassuring. I’m not even going to begin thinking about worms just yet. Thank you so much for all your help. Do you have any tips for the handling of peafowl? They will be in an enclosed coop/run so I should hopefully be able to catch them, check them over and apply the topical...

Oh sorry about that. I’ve fixed it now. I searched up Ivomec pour on for cattle and it’s 5mg/ml. I have a 1mg/ml Ivermectin product so according to 0.4ml at 5mg/ml dosage I would do 2ml of treatment. I can see in the picture you shared about leg and face mites it says Ivermectin 0.2mg/kg. So...