How can mites, fleas and ticks be killed quickly?
The quickest way to “thinout” the pests (unfortunately it probably won’t kill them all) is to take the chooks out for the day (possibly a good day to dip them in a Malathion solution), get some old feed sacks or tarpaulins and cover the shed opening with them. You really only need to cover the open wire sections. Get yourself a couple of those flea bombs (bigger sheds need more bombs) available in most supermarkets and simply set ’em going and get out of there quick. Then go around to the back of the shed armed with a trusty spray bottle filled with kerosene. You will likely see lots of nasties crawling out from between the cracks of the shed walls. Give the areas they are coming from a thorough soaking with the spray, making sure to get the kerosene right up inside the cracks themselves. You will probably kill most of the bugs in this way. Once the bombs are finished and the sheds are safe to enter, go around the inside walls and spray everything down with the kerosene, making sure to
