Quick guide about chicken mites and some home remedies

Welcome to our Quick guide about chicken mites and some home remedies. We are Wim Jellema and Enkarna Ibañez, creators and administrators of a portal about chickens and many other farm animals called GranjaOnline (please note that it is in Spanish).

During many years administrating this forum we noticed that one of the most recurrent problem for chicken lovers were mites. And many times the very same questions arose to different people when faced a mite infestation. Then we decided that writing a quick guide could help many people identifying the problem, mites, thus helping them to take action and saving their chickens from pain, and sometimes even death. We thought it would be also good including some home remedies that could, for sure, help our readers fighting against these parasites.

What will you learn in this Quick guide? Keep reading to learn things as:
What are mites? And a brief explanation of two of the most common mites: red mites and Northern fowl mites.
What does it cause?
How do I know if my chickens have mites?
Where do I have to look to see if my chickens have mites?
So they have mites. And now what to do?
What to do after the treatment?
Prevention
Home remedies