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The vaseline worked like a miracle, most of the crusts disappeared overnight! We could actually see the dark color that her silkie feet are supposed to be! So we have been doing that for a couple of weeks, but there are some clumps left, and it looks like the mites have cut off circulation to...

Thanks for all the detailed steps and descriptions of how the mites work. We should probably breed the one hen that seems immune to them ;)

Hi froggiesheins, Maybe you can help with our silkie's feet too. We started with one silkie with scaly legs and one without. We tried coconut oil on the scaly legs for a while but it never really got better or worse, and the other never got it despite them being together all the time, so we...