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Well, just gave her a treatment - what a mission!! That bird does not like to be handled!!
Below is a pic of her feet post Vaseline smothering - my sister reckons they look better already, but they're still pretty horrendous. A few of the mite excrement/leg scale combos came off during the brushing, but not much - everything is still firmly attached. Here's what we did and please comment if we should change anything for tomorrow:
1) Catch the bugger.
2) Soak feet and legs for over ten minutes in a bath of dog-flea shampoo (didn't bathe the whole bird).
3) In the shampoo mixture we brushed its feet with an old face brush for a horse - similar to a nail brush.
4) After brushing as much as we could we put her feet into clean water to wash the shampoo off.
5) Dryed her feet and leg feathers off a bit.
6) Smothered her feet in Vaseline three times.
7) Put her back in the hen house with clean straw, food and water.
I'll point out here that the house was cleaned a week or so ago when the chickens were moved, and I'm fairly confident that the actual lice/mites/nasties are gone... we'll see!!
Anyway, the photo:
Thank you so much for all the posts already, and keep your opinions/advice coming. Be brutal!
Cheers
Tiiiim
Below is a pic of her feet post Vaseline smothering - my sister reckons they look better already, but they're still pretty horrendous. A few of the mite excrement/leg scale combos came off during the brushing, but not much - everything is still firmly attached. Here's what we did and please comment if we should change anything for tomorrow:
1) Catch the bugger.
2) Soak feet and legs for over ten minutes in a bath of dog-flea shampoo (didn't bathe the whole bird).
3) In the shampoo mixture we brushed its feet with an old face brush for a horse - similar to a nail brush.
4) After brushing as much as we could we put her feet into clean water to wash the shampoo off.
5) Dryed her feet and leg feathers off a bit.
6) Smothered her feet in Vaseline three times.
7) Put her back in the hen house with clean straw, food and water.
I'll point out here that the house was cleaned a week or so ago when the chickens were moved, and I'm fairly confident that the actual lice/mites/nasties are gone... we'll see!!
Anyway, the photo:
Thank you so much for all the posts already, and keep your opinions/advice coming. Be brutal!
Cheers
Tiiiim