Help identify my beautiful lady?

[ChickenExtreme]

Maybe she is mixed with a Dongtao lol http://www.kampfhuehner.de/e/vietnam.html

The chicken in the second picture looks like godzillachick.

Wow, those are some nasty looking critters, ewe weee, lol

 

[Brownshaver]

Here's my chook's legs - and another of my hens as well. Mites, or just funny legs?

 

[donrae]

Mites. Your whole flock needs to be treated. Their legs should be smooth and the scales should lay flat with each other, no raised lumps or bumps.

 

[ChickenExtreme]

Here's my chook's legs - and another of my hens as well. Mites, or just funny legs?

Wow , that's a bad case

 

[hunter109]

cochin mix

 

[ccshambhala]

I think she is carrying herself lower in this pic/or maybe due to mites -which makes her look poofier than she is. Her build looks orpington to me but her color looks RIR. I would try another pic - maybe after mites are gone? She's not a cochin mix because she has NO feathering on her feet.

 

[Brownshaver]

Thanks all for their helpful advice - have put research into breeds on hold while I attend to getting rid of scaly leg worm in the flock!

 

[Sally8]

Not sure if you are coming back to this post at all, but I have 2 chickens with leg mites. Others have mites also. I've been using the sevin on the hens and mixed sevin into vaseline and rubbed into the legs every couple of days. There is so much advice on here that I finally took what I would do from it and that's what I'm working on. It's only been a week or so, so no update.

 

[Sally8]

Not sure if you are coming back to this post at all, but I have 2 chickens with leg mites. Others have mites also. I've been using the sevin on the hens and mixed sevin into vaseline and rubbed into the legs every couple of days. There is so much advice on here that I finally took what I would do from it and that's what I'm working on. It's only been a week or so, so no update.

 

[Brownshaver]

I'm in New Zealand, so not sure what the equivalent to Sevin here - these things tend to be branded differently in each country. What I've been doing is also based on advice found in these forums. I try to keep my backyard organic, so avoid chemicals where I can. Once a week we've been cleaning their feet in a mild detergent (warm soapy water), drying them, then applying cheap vegetable oil with just a few drops of tea tree oil added. We've been doing this at bedtime (chicken bedtime, that is!) so their feet/legs keep soaking overnight; the first time we did it in the morning, and within minutes their feet were muddy and wet (it's winter here in NZ). Already (after a few weeks) their legs are looking more normal, but we'll keep treating them for a few more weeks. We also made sure there were no mites in their henhouse - we clean it every day, and once a week, add some natural cleaning agents.