I don't think grain mites will infest your chickens. Grain mites eat grain.
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Yeah, that's what someone else said, too. That chickens eat bugs anyway so not to worry too much about it. I'm new to this, does it show?I don't think grain mites will infest your chickens. Grain mites eat grain.
I just had this SAME problem! One bag of chick starter from TSC. Purina medicated brand. I'm going back to dumor, I have not had mites in any of those in 3 years of use.
They have infested my basement and turned my feed to dust. On still feeding it because its all I have ATM and isn't mouldy or wet. But I dumped tons of DE in it and powdered my entire basement and the chicks brooder.
I am taking this bag back to TSC and complaining! I want my money back or a new bag without bugs! I'm also calling Purina! Nothing kills these mites and they are all over EVERYTHING! I have an unfinished basement and no AC and its very wet and hot round here. They have exploded and there are piles of them! Literally!
Ewwww! They got on me its so gross!
I thought it was dust for over a week until I saw it moving! By then it was all over heck in my basement! It's creeping near the laundry now, and thats 15' awa from where the bag was. Ahhhg!
Yuck, I could not imagine having this problem indoors. I purchased a bag of Purina unmedicated starter feed from the TSC in Cedar Springs and just had this problem for the first time in 8 years of keeping chickens. I wonder if it is the same store? I have another new bag of medicated feed that seems to be mite-free, but it is also from that TSC but I am nervous it will also break with the nasty things. We dumped out all the feeders and bins and hosed everything down, but they have got to also be inside my five coops. I'm up at 2 am right now because I can't sleep due to the creepy crawly feeling even though I have since showered and am clean. I can't stand infestations of any kind... Tomorrow I will probably be stripping all the coops and coating the insides with permethrin spray.
Be warned! Permethrin spary does nothing to kill these things. Neither does DE, deet spray or anything else. Limited luck with 409. I think next I'm going to just nuke my house but they would probably survive the radiation too. :S
Yes I still have them and they come back out after it rains and infest other good bags and everything else! Ewww! And I just can't kill them! Yikes!