Battles Red Mite Concentrate 500Ml

Battles Red Mite Concentrate – 500ml

Red mite is a housing problem rather than a bird problem. The mites spend the day hidden in the structure — the joints of the house, the ends of the perches, under the felt — and come out at night to feed on roosting birds. That is why a treatment aimed at the coop achieves far more than anything applied to the hens themselves.

This is a 500ml concentrate, diluted and applied to the housing. Battles' own website has been unreachable throughout this review, so the dilution rate, the active ingredient and any withdrawal advice are not reproduced here. They are printed on the bottle, and the bottle is the authority.

Performance & Benefits

• Concentrate, so one 500ml bottle makes up a useful quantity of working solution.
• Aimed at the housing, which is where red mite actually lives.
• Covers the whole structure: perch ends, joints, nest box corners and the underside of the roof.
• Liquid, so it runs into cracks that a powder only sits on top of.

Suitable For

• Chicken houses, arks, waterfowl housing and game pens.
• Keepers dealing with an established infestation rather than a first sighting.
• Use on the structure and the fittings, not on the birds.
• Deep cleaning between flocks, when the house is empty anyway.
• Not a product to apply to a bird. Where mites or lice are on the birds themselves, a poultry louse powder made for direct application is what that job needs.

How to Use

• Dilute and apply at the rate printed on the bottle. No rate is given here because Battles' published information was not accessible.
• Take the birds out, and remove feeders and drinkers, before you start.
• Strip the bedding out first, then work the solution into perch ends, joints, cracks and the underside of the roof — that is where the mites sit out the day.
• Let the house dry fully before the birds go back in.
• Repeat according to the label. Eggs hatch after the first treatment, so one application rarely finishes an infestation.

Specification

• 500ml concentrate for dilution.
• Battles publish no composition, active ingredient or dilution rate we could access. Their website has been unreachable throughout this review, so none is stated here.
• No egg withdrawal information is available from Battles for this product. Read the label before eating eggs from treated housing.
• Earlier copy on this listing described a shaker powder applied directly to the bird. That describes a different product; this one is a liquid concentrate for the housing.

Care & Caution

• This is a concentrate. Wear gloves, avoid contact with skin and eyes, and keep it away from your face while you are diluting it.
• Remove birds, eggs, feed and water from the house before treating, and keep them out until everything has dried.
• Do not apply it to the birds.
• Store it locked away from children and animals.