This is going to be sort of a long story..I have been dealing with Northern Fowl Mites for who knows how long. I had treated my flock for it last year and believed to have gotten it under control but am suspicious that they never fully went away. The topic keeps me up at night, I want them GONE...
I decided I would share my experience with (very extreme) scaly leg mites.
This year we built a second coop to house only silkies. In April, we got four silkie hens off of a craigslist ad and a few weeks later got Orville, our beautiful white silkie rooster to go with them. After having the...