Curing leg mites with Tea Tree Oil?

[speckledhen]

Mineral oil with a few drops of tea tree will do it. Put the oil in a container so the birds leg can be put down inside it or pour it on the legs over the sink.
Most any oil will do it, but the scales will not necessarily go down after the mite are gone.

 

[fullhouse]

I agree with the lanolin, great idea! You can get it as Lanosh in the baby section. It's wool grease, the sheep oil of the carded fiber (just in case you don't know). I would add lemongrass EO and TTO. Only a drop or two per teaspoon of carrier oil of each. Someone, maybe Burt's Bees, has a no-pertoleum jelly. Good luck!

 

[priszilla]

I used tea tree oil on a couple of cochins-and they died during the night after they were treated.I had diliuted it in vegetable oil.I will never use it on my birds again. Ivermectin if vicks or camphophenique mixed with food qrade mineral oil doesn't do it in 3 treatments 1 week apart. I have heard of folks spraying PAM on their birds legs but I don't think they would like the sound

 

[EweSheep]

I used Vicks and had great results after two applications! A Silkie breeder told me about that one!

 

[speckledhen]

Yes, invermectin will work as well. Tea tree oil and other aromatics should be used carefully around chickens -some can kill, that is true. I've never had issues with highly diluted tea tree oil, and it does take care of bugs, but it can kill small birds.

 

[Smoky73]

You have to be sure to dilute the tea tree oil very well. Like a pint or a quart of mineral oil to a few DROPS only of TTO.