Elector PSP?

[Willey98]

Easiest way to apply the Elector PSP for me:
1. Mix it in a spray bottle or sprayer
2. Spray them when they are roosting at night, or I also throw out some corn/bird seed and then sneak up behind them and spray them while they are eating (mine know what the feed scoop means and they get pretty excited for their scratch treats). I think overtime they will probably get used to this. You could even work on training them/desensitizing them to it with water during the summer.
3. Keep track of who you sprayed as best you can, but easy to tell if you're not sure is check and see if their butt is wet or not. (I spray all of one breed/color at a time so I can kind of keep track who I did vs not).

I would be worried about full-body dips as that may be giving a higher than label dose, but it is fairly safe, so you are probably okay. I don't know if it specifically does scaley leg mites, but it is in the same overall drug class as ivermectin (macrocyclic lactone). I think should be fairly similar and likely does them as well. They likely just didn't go for the label approval to put it on there.

P.S. I actually don't recommend frequent switching between drug classes. The new recommendations based on parasite resistance development in sheep is to use one drug until it doesn't work anymore before switching to another class. You don't want to be exposing parasites to multiple drug classes at once (or within fairly recent time frames). And be judicious with treatment, treat when necessary - when you see parasites - instead of routinely treating regardless. In sheep, the hope is that by the time resistance builds up to your second drug, the parasites will have lost the resistance genes for the first one. It gets complicated, but that is the gist.

 

[jetters]

Yes, use the left over solution to spray the coop down.

And you can use the permethrin again before the PSP arrives.

I tried PSP for the first time last week to treat scaly leg mites. Everything I found said it's a once and done treatment for their legs and coop.
5 days later two of my girls feet had small bleeding spots which looked like some of their skin scales were coming off. Would this be normal after the PSP treatment.
It also occurred after extreme single digit winter storm temps we had this last week so wondered if that caused any ill effects?

 

[Three Stents]

I'm being proactive so I ordered this. https://restockyourkit.com/products/elector-psp
Before my chickens arrived, I sprayed the coop and run inside and out with permethrin, and tossed in some DE....zero insects. 2 months later which was yesterday, I sprinkled some DE inside the coop and around the outside, just because. So really, what does "once and done" mean when using Elector PSP? I'm assuming it will kill every insect "today", but what about "tomorrow"?

 

[jetters]

Wish I would've planned ahead like you did! So i assume once and done means multiple legs soaks aren't necessary ad supposedly mites are killed within 48 hours. But yes re-exposure would be a problem. Currently dealing with trying to block sparrows from getting in the coop plus my girls free range daily.
Main problem right now is knowing what happens to the legs after the PSP treatment. I don't know if their bleeding cracks/loss of leg scales is because the original mites weren't killed or if it's an after-effect of having the original mites to begin with.
Guessing I just monitor and see what direction it goes?