Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

Just wondering what treatments people find to be the "easiest" when dealing with scaley leg mites. :barnie We have 38 chickens, so I know it's going to be time consuming to treat all. So far, I've only used castor oil with a drop of tea tree oil on the 3 showing signs. (Slathered it on and gently massaged it in.) I want to get a plan in place before I get to work treating all.
Having silkies, I've dealt with them three times in 7-8 years. We use DE so they don't get any other mites or lice, but they still get these.

The first two times, hubby and I went out at night and slathered their feet and legs with Vaseline that had a bit of A&D Diaper rash ointment and Vicks mixed in it, just for good measure. We did that every other night for three different times. That got rid of them.

Then, about six months ago, they got them again. This time instead of 6-7 chickens, there were 14, so I was not about to go greasing up 28 feet and researched it to find Ivermection 5% Pour On works.

Dosage: (topical only) is 1 mg/kg = 0.09 ml lb.
1 eyedropper drop is 0.05 ml

My silkies average 3 lb. I applied two drops the last time, on their back, behind their neck. Spread the feathers there and apply the drop(s). Repeat in 10 days. 2 weeks suggested egg withdrawal.

It worked!

Hubby did no such withdrawal and ate the eggs anyway. He's still alive. ☺️
 
I've heard that about the pour on, which I happen to have. We are getting about 25 eggs a day, so that's going to be a huge loss. If they are on the treatment, would it harm the chickens if a scrambled up the eggs and fed it to them?
When it's injected or given orally, that's one thing, but I don't think for topical use they even know for certain if any is getting into the egg and the two week withdrawal is just a precaution. It's for the chickens anyway so I sure would. In my case, my husband ate them or we would have.
 
Chilly St. Pattie's to all! Not going to complain with the gentle winter had this year for sure.
Ho-made kraut with venison wieners for supper tonight.
Caught up on prolly 4 pages of reading. I prefer to freeze my kraut in quart bags. It stays as crunchy as fresh and so easy to do. Share the juice among all the bags after filling the bags to have nice juice when thawed in an ice cream pail.
Good luck with any health problems you are having with your flocks. I springle 5% sevin dust in the dusting bath and have no problems. It must be 5% though and not anything else...easy does it and not a lot is needed or that often. I've been raising poultry since 1971 and back than it was a common practice....frowned upon about by most young fanciers today...but they have the problems and of course know more than me. It's what works for me and I won't argue the issue.
Don't overdo it and see nothing but results.
Been making firewood for months. What an easy winter working in the woods this year!

Stay Safe, .... bigz
 

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