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Red Mite In Chickens: The Natural Prevention And Cure UK Keepers Rely On
Last Updated 17th August, 2026
1. Red Mite Lives In Your Hen House, Not On Your Birds
This is the part most keepers only learn the hard way. Take a torch to a perch joint after dark and you will find them. Look in daylight and you will find almost nothing.
Red mite feed on your hens for under an hour every few days, then go back into the woodwork to breed. Which is why a spotless coop can still be full of them, and why treating only the birds never holds.
2. Start In Spring And You Never Get The August Bonfire
Red mite numbers build quietly through the warm months. A few in May become an infestation by August, which is when you see keepers stripping bedding out, taking coop walls off and burning the lot.
Keepers who start early rarely get there. A weekly dose of Mitey Stuff! from spring onwards keeps numbers down before they can build. Ten seconds into the drinking water, no catching birds. Our best selling poultry product by a distance. From £19.95.
3. A Natural Alternative That Actually Works
Plenty of flock keepers reach straight for Exzolt and a trip to the vet. It is not the only way to keep red mite off your birds, and for most back garden and smallholding flocks it is not the simplest.
Mitey Stuff! is a natural blend of plant extracts, with no chemicals, poisons or pesticides in it. No prescription, no vet appointment, no waiting. It goes straight in the drinking water and does the job week after week. From £19.95.
4. Your Eggs Stay Safe To Eat, Your Breeding Stays Unaffected
This is the question we get asked most, and it is the reason a lot of keepers switch. Because Mitey Stuff! is a natural supplement rather than a chemical treatment, you carry on collecting and eating your eggs as normal. No withdrawal period to count out, no batch to throw away.
It is equally safe through breeding season, when red mite does the most damage. Warm, enclosed nest boxes full of chicks that cannot move away are exactly what red mite want.
5. The Powder Goes On The Birds And Through The Hen House
Mitey-X Stuff! is a natural mineral powder, and it is what you reach for when mites are already there. Sprinkle it directly onto your birds and work it into the hen house, paying attention to perch ends and joints.
Chemical and pesticide free, fragrance free, and it doubles as a drying agent, pulling moisture out of the housing so mites have a harder time of it. From £13.95.
6. Everyone Who Has Beaten A Bad Outbreak Did Both At Once
Treating the birds or the coop on its own is why outbreaks drag on for months. Whatever survives in the hen house walks back onto your hens, and whatever survives on your hens walks back into the hen house.
The Mitey Bundle is prevention and cure in one: Mitey-X Stuff! 450g to deal with mites you have now, and Mitey Stuff! 100ml to stop them coming back. £33.90 bought separately, £27.95 together.
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Aviform red mite products are natural supplements and husbandry products for poultry. They are not veterinary medicines. If your birds are unwell, speak to your vet.