Using Gasoline to cure scaly leg mites on silkies???

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Idk she used remedies like that for us and our livestock. It seems to work. None of our animals ever went to the vet. Lol. But she was from a different place and era. Even made her own corn meal and stuff like that. Garden, field all that good stuff. I hated it when I was a kid cuz working a farm isn't so fun when you have to. But I moved back to my home town and thinkin about doing it again. Lol.
 
It's more to choke them to death. Garlic is very potent and thick when cooked into an oil. It does come though pores when eaten. Do I don't see why it wouldn't work.
 
The second dipping went just fine. I have found the key to feather legged birds is to squeeze the gas out of the feathers and speed up the drying via paper towels, and then hold them with their feet stretched out and sideways so their head is not above or near their feet. What fumigated my birds the first round was putting them back on the ground with soaking wet feet feathers.
 
BeastyBird said:
The second dipping went just fine. I have found the key to feather legged birds is to squeeze the gas out of the feathers and speed up the drying via paper towels, and then hold them with their feet stretched out and sideways so their head is not above or near their feet. What fumigated my birds the first round was putting them back on the ground with soaking wet feet feathers.
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glad it went better this time!
 
I may have hated the process but it puts my mind at ease that there is very likely no chance there is a mite or nit left alive on these birds, with the feathers on their feet I feel that dipping them in gas was really the only sure fire way to be sure to fry every trace of mites. I am also relived that this method is just 3 days, they are not very tame and the one hen bites!

And so now, after 3 weeks of quarantine and 3 days of mite treatment, they can FINALLY join the birds in the backyard!
 
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BeastyBird said:
I may have hated the process but it puts my mind at ease that there is very likely no chance there is a mite or nit left alive on these birds, with the feathers on their feet I feel that dipping them in gas was really the only sure fire way to be sure to fry every trace of mites. I am also relived that this method is just 3 days, they are not very tame and the one hen bites!

And so now, after 3 weeks of quarantine and 3 days of mite treatment, they can FINALLY join the birds in the backyard!
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Hello, considering doing this to my hens this weekend :/ may I ask more about quarantining and how you cleaned your coop?
 
majortaylor said:
I used this method with a NN Turken who I rescued and had a terrible case of leg mites. She is very flighty and nervous so we decided that the least amount of handling was the best. She had a limp due to the mites and after this treatment the scales started to fall off and her limp was gone! She didn't seem like the gasoline was burning but I do know it worked fast and she felt better very quickly.
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I have one that cant walk. Can I
majortaylor said:
I used this method with a NN Turken who I rescued and had a terrible case of leg mites. She is very flighty and nervous so we decided that the least amount of handling was the best. She had a limp due to the mites and after this treatment the scales started to fall off and her limp was gone! She didn't seem like the gasoline was burning but I do know it worked fast and she felt better very quickly.
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Did you dry the legs off STRAIGHT after dipping? I am needing to do mine. Am worried.
 

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