[RigsVilleBird]

Gross question coming up.  :blink:

Can red mites or any other chicken based mites be passed on to humans? I so what symptoms are they?

[GrannieAnnie]

They make you itch, that's all!  I think some really sensitive people could come out in a rash, but we never have!

When we've cleaned out a mite infested coop, we come in the back door where the washing machine is, chuck all our clothes inside, then go up and have a shower!

[RigsVilleBird]

that makes sense, the things us chicken keepers put up with eh!!

[GrannieAnnie]

OH YES!  

I was only saying to Brian yesterday, that when I was a child, and even when Brian and I kept chooks in Essex, we never saw a redmite at all!

Then I remembered why!

That was before they banned the general use of creosote! 

[RigsVilleBird]