Well we are back! And mite free - yay! Ok, so it took an awful lot of cleaning and treating the coop, ending in us having to bring in an exterminator to do the coop and run! Wasn't as expensive as I thought it would be, but cost enough. Mind you if I had done that from the start rather than buy loads of mite treatments first it would have been cheaper. Lesson learned, the only way forward when it comes to mites is Ficam W. Expensive, but does the job. Also need to stop feeding wild birds as these can transmit red mites.
Other than that, life has slowed down. At least one of the girls (Myrtle) is now going through a moult. Luckily she hasn't stopped laying. We are averaging 4 eggs a day now, which I think is still good given that we are coming up to 2 years now.
Just need to get them to start going into the coop on their own at nights now as its getting cold, yet they still try to sleep on top of the coop! Stupid birds!!
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