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post #11 of 13

3/28/12 at 10:21am

amberflea

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KEROSENE IS TOXIC! There are alot of other BETTER ways to get rid of scaley leg mites that have been updated since the old old ways of using kerosene...

Also, I would give them more than a week or two once your problem is cleared up before sacrificing a chicken, it might take them a month to heal and de-stress before they lay as they normally should...

Have you wormed them at all?

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4/5/12 at 7:39am

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Well I am about 2 weeks into my scaly leg mite attack, and seeing definate egg production improvements already! In about a week, we went from 3 eggs/day to 9! I dropped the leg dipping down to every 2 or 3 days rather than every night (every night is incredibly labour intensive). Their legs (particularly the Silkies) look so much better!

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4/5/12 at 6:35pm

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You probably don't need to treat them anymore. It will take a LONG time for their legs to get totally back to normal. One place I saw said up to a year. In the meantime, the mites should be dead...the scales don't go back down..they have to wait until they're shed eventually! Glad to hear you're finally getting some eggs!