So I just read this entire thread.
I have a broody who I'm trying to beak and noticed today that she has some scales lifting on her legs. Odd thing is, I just cleaned out the coop and dusted permethrin in the bedding and nest boxes two weeks ago. I check my girls fairly regularly and hadn;t noticed anything until today. I suppose since the leg mites burrow and live in their legs, they could have been there for awhile and I'm just now seeing signs of it.
It's about time for my girls to get their twice a year worming anyway, so I guess I will worm and then follow the epsom salt soaking followed by regularly slathering of bagbalm or oil and tea tree protocol.
I do have one question if anyone reading this knows....I've been using Valbazen for my wormer. Does it kill external blood sucking parasites? I know Ivermectin does, but I'd prefer not to have to buy the huge (expensive!) sizes that are available locally.
It seems to me that using a wormer that kills external parasites followed by the leg slathering treatment is probably the best bet....although I know lots of folks here don't agree with worming.
Andrea
I have a broody who I'm trying to beak and noticed today that she has some scales lifting on her legs. Odd thing is, I just cleaned out the coop and dusted permethrin in the bedding and nest boxes two weeks ago. I check my girls fairly regularly and hadn;t noticed anything until today. I suppose since the leg mites burrow and live in their legs, they could have been there for awhile and I'm just now seeing signs of it.
It's about time for my girls to get their twice a year worming anyway, so I guess I will worm and then follow the epsom salt soaking followed by regularly slathering of bagbalm or oil and tea tree protocol.
I do have one question if anyone reading this knows....I've been using Valbazen for my wormer. Does it kill external blood sucking parasites? I know Ivermectin does, but I'd prefer not to have to buy the huge (expensive!) sizes that are available locally.
It seems to me that using a wormer that kills external parasites followed by the leg slathering treatment is probably the best bet....although I know lots of folks here don't agree with worming.
Andrea