Above: scaly leg mites can be more difficult to spot in feather-legged breeds like Brahmas. Scaly leg mites are parasites that lodge and reproduce underneath the scales on chickens’ legs. This results ...

Mites are tiny, annoying creatures that can really bother chickens and humans. The most common type are like sneaky night-time attackers: they hide in the cracks and small spaces of chicken coops ...

IN a mixed flock of 147 poultry, 101 birds were infested with Cnemidocoptes mutans. Of these, sixteen were very severely affected. A series of preparations containing the gamma isomer of benzene ...