Poo help please!

[Heidi-Hi]

I feel so sorry for the 9 girls I collected yesterday, together with a cube (I'm the third owner). When I looked in their cube tonight (about 6:30), there were small mountains of red mite, and they were not red, but MAROON !!! I gave it a ferocious scrub yesterday after I got it, but they obviously hide very well. I DE'd as much as I could, and then treated the girls to a tin of sweetcorn, and while they were bottoms up, they got a good puff too! It's me and red mite this week - I will kill them all Just call me 'Kill Heidi' I will get them sorted, if it is the last thing I do I am picking up some Total Mite Kill Concentrate and will blast them to you know where...

[Tutti Frutti]

I've pm'd you about a local supplier

[batcatz]

oh no, do you think that's why they sold it? Don't let them near your wooden coop.

[Heidi-Hi]

No, they are moving oversees at the end of the month. She was sad to see it all go, but it was all a bit grim Either way, I will try my best to sort them out. Hubby was not impressed, he said he would rather have paid a bit extra and bought me a new one. Now he tells me

[Patricia W]

Red mite can happen to everyone - it's endemic in the wild bird population - so think of it as a learning experience! Strangely, I have it in one cube and one eglu, but not in the others. So it's rather random in its appearance.

 

Tricia