Am I prepared for this....

[tastyacres]

Do you know about this thread?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ice-mites-scale-mites-worms-anemia-gl.709707/

Thank you!

 

[tastyacres]

I don't know how long you can wait but if you have the means they make this stuff called harkers spot on it's a wormer/mite killer made for racing pigeons. You put two drops between the birds shoulders and you're done. They only sell it in the UK so you'd have to get it though the post it's a little pricey but it's easy and it works.

I only have a week till I am out there... So I will look into it.... Maybe something to just have on hand anyway.

 

[tastyacres]

On my way to go and take care of them now.

 

[Sutremaine]

Thank you!

No prob. Your birds don't look too bad in comparison, except for the turkey.

Edit: Quite a way into the thread I linked are details about one chicken whose feet stayed swollen when everyone else's healed up. Turned out there was a gland between the toes, packed with an entire cotton bud head's worth of dirt and yuck.

 

[tastyacres]

So yesterday I got all 56 of them tagged and recorded!

Sunday we are going back again to take care of the mites.... Most the chickens legs are pale and the scales stick straight out from their legs.

So my question is there a way just to relieve the pain some till I can get out there everyday?

@Sutremaine yeah, my birds and hers are about the same!

I decided to put down the turkey with bubble foot... She has that and it has caused her feet to be deformed.

 

[tastyacres]

I sprayed there legs with oil and can already see a difference.... Going to spray them again in 3days.

Will have a better update in a couple days with pictures.

 

[tastyacres]

I am not sure what we are going to do with the birds at this point.... It turns out almost of them are over three years old. Not worth the feed or Time I am putting onto them.

 

[tastyacres]

Well, I butchered All but 14... Most just couldn't recover.

They are doing absulutly amazing and have started laying again.