Hen limping, legs covered in something white; what's going on?

[xapikleia]

I should have taken a picture today, but it didn't dawn on me until right now. My Japanese Banty has been limping for a couple of weeks. My husband told me about it when he first noticed, but my pregnant brain forgot within seconds...anyway, I noticed the limp today. She seems perfectly happy, and was even running quickly (it was more like hopping).

I picked her up, and I saw that her legs are covered with some kind of white crust. What in the world could it be? If anyone has an idea what it i, could it be causing the limp?

 

[kathyinmo]

Here are some threads about scaly leg mites... hope this helps....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2596525

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=217049

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=33903

https://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-mites.html

 

[xapikleia]

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Thank you! I was searching for threads, but wasn't finding anything.

 

[xapikleia]

I'm going to take a good look at her legs tomorrow, and hopefully get some pictures. I don't know if it's the mites or not...in all of the pictures that I've seen, they still look like legs, just with wacky scales. Hers look like she was standing in wet cement.

For future reference though, what can I do to prevent mites? Lots of DE in the litter?

 

[kathyinmo]

Here is a great explanation: hope this helps...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2683521

 

[Mahonri]

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Slather the legs in vaseline.

 

[danischi24]

The following comments are from web chats:
A while back I took my Frizzle Rooster to my Avian vet for a pedicure,
because his spurs were sooooo HUGE, I was afraid to cut them...Filing
would have been futile.
She said he had mites. I said IMPOSSIBLE!
She scraped his scaly feet and under the microscope, showed me the
creepy crawly gross, crab like yucky's. At the time, I didn't think scaly feet
had anything to do with mites. And because they can’t be seen with the
naked eye....who'd have thunk it? Momma Frizzle had scaly feet, too.
Anyway, her prescription:
4 CC/ML Ivermectin (INJECTABLE) in ONE gallon of water, 3 days,
repeat in 14 days. No other source of water should be provided.
Puffy's & Momms's feet, looked like new born baby feet after about a
week. The scale just disappeared.
Vet also said that if they have any mites of their body's they would bite
and die from the Ivermectin.