red mites- omlet cube a solution?

[newtlover]

we have had a terrible mite problem this year, I have tried every product in existance, but our wooden coop is quite old and full of cracks. Am seriously considering shelling out for an omlet cube, does anyone have any experience? I see in the omlet forums that you can still get mites but dealling with them would be easier surely?
Plus- should I treat the soil in the run somehow?

We moved to a cube and it solved the red mite problem.

really?
tell me more (I have a debit card in my hand!)
how did you make sure none migrated from the old coop?
did you treat the ground?

We have had a terrible time with red mites this year too. If you can move your chickens to another coop for a few days and away from the current one the spray you get from the vets for the house if your animals have fleas works wonders. I sprayed our old one last week prior to getting new chickens, locked it up and left it for 24 hours. Then I put the diotamaceous earth all over it.

Fingers crossed it seems to have done the trick.

Desertmum, I've had the same experience but I think you need to also spray the hens themselves. I don't know what you get in the UK, but I'm in Australia. I give each of my hens a squirt of "Frontline" on their skin (part the back feathers) and scrub the henhouse with Dettol. The Frontline does the trick particularly well.
I don't trust D. Earth because I'm afraid it will get in my lungs and hens have delicate lungs as well.

I don't know if Frontline is avaialble in the UK, but it is a thing dog-owners spray on dogs against fleas. My vet recommended it.

threechildren - yes we do get Frontline here - hadn't thought about using it on the chickens. I use a red mite powder on them, which I'm not sure actually works tbh.

Will check with the vet re frontline and give it a go.

Love my chickens, hate the mites!

I’ve had an Arkus for 4 years no red mite. Might have been luck but I heard rm can move between the layers of Omlet. The Arkus ones are generally bigger and cheaper. (They don’t look as nice as Omlet though.)