Show whitewash favored for cleaning chicken coop because mites breed so rapidly tho the hen house becomes uninhabitable by summer it if preventive measures are not taken in the spring altea can live for oc five months without blood so that closing the poultry house during the summer will not completely starve them out this explains why they can live through the winter and be ready to breed the next spring A poultry house can be kept absolutely free from mites clean out nil all the old nests clenn clean up all litter on the floor and burn bum it paint faint tho the boosts roosts and dropping boards with undiluted commercial liquid lice bliler or with crude petroleum apply to the entire length of the roosts boosts top side and under also where the roosts boosts join the wall repeat in june and again in august spray the entire interior of the coop with disinfectant whenever you clean it and cleanliness largely prevent poultry disease and the red mite as well Amerl american can poultry journal |