You may be interested to know I am winning the fight against bird mite/red mite in my house. Have discovered that they hate tea tree oil, eucolyptus oil and dettol antibacterial spray! It was terrible to start with - if you walked into our bedroom you immediately felt 'crawly' and had a 'pinprick ' ...

Thanks for that Ryan. Our house is surrounded by trees and are subject to a TPO - this year we have had a terrible problem with wood pigeons and crows in them - along with our 2 faithful squirrells. They do tend to spend a lot of time sittin on our oof sunbathing - we have had a loft conversion but ...

Thanks guys - will give the flea treatment a go (have also been thinking about buying a flea smoke bomb!)- covered my legs (where most of bites have been) in tea tree oil last night before going to bed and didn't get bitten once - although still feel very itchy. Thanks ppenn and kitla - really felt ...

Thanks for the replys guys They are drinately redmite - am going to buy headlice shampoo today and a flea bomb for house.

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Not been a contributor to this site for some time - but do still use it as a point of reference when I need information. Unfortunately on my return from holiday I discovered that the dreaded redmite had returned - and had obviously been breeding like rabbits. I have ensued with chemical warrfare. an...

Hya - whe mine do this it is normally a sign of a softie egg - i.e. one without a shell on its way! They look sad, walk aroudn with head pulled in and seem to just want to sit down all the time. Wendy gave me a fantastic trick - try to feed your girl natural yoghurt or olie oil (or both!) - I find g...

Spicy Aubergine bake Griddle 2-3 sliced aubergines & 1-2 sliced courgettes or use Asdas frozen ready griddled aubergines (Delia cheat which are great!!) Make a tomatoe sauce consisting of chilli garlic mixed herbs 2 x tinned toms/fresh (whatever I have available) Heat chill, garlic in a little o...

I bought a plastic underbed storage box - think it was £3 in Focus.
It has been excellent and really easy to wash out.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/food/i ... ggqual.pdf

This is quite a good document. Worth a look.

Thanks for that Dippy - will give it a try if the b&%^$$ come back!!!

The answer - YES! Try hanging veg just out of their reach they have to work at it to get some! I have large logs with holes in and I stuff their corn in these - again bit of a puzzle for them. Best fun they have is a £2.00 bale of straw - lasts weeks - just stick it in the run and watch them try to ...

Just a bit of an update on our redmite situation. Have re applied the redmite spray and redusted every corner this week and again the chooks seem much happier. They are eating less and egg production has been much better. Thanks again for the advice - and especially the redmite spray advice - great ...

Well - spent all day Saturday - Poultry shieldd the entire coop (inside & Out). Burnt perches and OH made a new one. Bought a can of Redmite spray - used the whole can to spray every nook and cranny! powdered the girls. Gave them a new dust bath - clean sand, ash from the bbq & redmite powde...

Thanks guys - not tried that! Will be giving the girls another full on chemical warefare attack again this weekend!
Seen on another thread that some one ripped off their roofing felt - thinking I will do this in case they are hiding in there - hate the stuff anyway. What can I re roof my house with?

Just reserecting this thread as I am having a nightmare with redmite. The Chooks are now refusing to go into the nest boxes to lay and are laying in the run! It has got to a point where I am thinking a buying a new coop! Have spent a fortune on poultry shield, redmite powder, diatom, garlic (& s...