evergreendors
Chirping
- Jan 29, 2018
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I know there are at least 3 dozen posts here and I have read almost all of them. I have also search the internet for some info. Here's what I've been doing but I need a more aggressive approach. Thanks to someone here they noticed in a picture of one of my new hens that she had scaly leg mites. She came that way and I had no idea. She wasn't lame, low egg producing or anything else. So I bathed her legs, daily for a week and applied a thick coating of coconut oil daily for the week then every other day for a week then every third day for a week. It looked way better. Then I noticed he belly had a bald spot so we started all over again. That was a couple of moths ago. They are still not gone but way better. Like barely there but still there, by the looks of her leg scales. But maybe hey are just now deformed due to the impact?
Bird number 2. I bought a bird from a local breeder, she was immediately lame. I looked and looked and looked on her leg, nothing. No lifted scales no cuts nothing, but lame. Finally last week I saw her upper thigh scales were lifted, she had mites. Not sure if the lameness was part of it or not.
Bird number 3. I was given a roo from a local breeder who looked, acted and was otherwise a fine bird. He is a Silkie. After having a bit of a foot/leg fetish due to the mites I started really inspecting him closely. Yup after the mud washed off from his former home, there they were...by far the worst I've ever seen.
2 days ago I started with the washing and "basting" of the hen and the roo's legs. But there must be a more effective way to handle all of this. Incidentally these birds are all in separate coops so didn't give to each other... My plan is to clean outt eh runs, again and this time along with the DE that I've always used add some Sevin dust to the floor. Add my clean straw and maybe a bit more sevin and DE on top to both floors and nesting boxes. Then I was going to grab both the hen and the roo and give each a tiny pea sized does of Ivermectin 1.8% past wormer AND coat their bodies with sevin and de AND coat the legs in Vaseline/Vicks vapo rub.
Will this be too aggressive?
And the first hen who has had had as long as I remember, has just hatched out some chicks. I am not positive that she still has the mites but is there anything other than DE that I can put on her and her nest without harming the babies?
For years this was not a problem. But alas I guess everyone goes thru it eventually....
Bird number 2. I bought a bird from a local breeder, she was immediately lame. I looked and looked and looked on her leg, nothing. No lifted scales no cuts nothing, but lame. Finally last week I saw her upper thigh scales were lifted, she had mites. Not sure if the lameness was part of it or not.
Bird number 3. I was given a roo from a local breeder who looked, acted and was otherwise a fine bird. He is a Silkie. After having a bit of a foot/leg fetish due to the mites I started really inspecting him closely. Yup after the mud washed off from his former home, there they were...by far the worst I've ever seen.
2 days ago I started with the washing and "basting" of the hen and the roo's legs. But there must be a more effective way to handle all of this. Incidentally these birds are all in separate coops so didn't give to each other... My plan is to clean outt eh runs, again and this time along with the DE that I've always used add some Sevin dust to the floor. Add my clean straw and maybe a bit more sevin and DE on top to both floors and nesting boxes. Then I was going to grab both the hen and the roo and give each a tiny pea sized does of Ivermectin 1.8% past wormer AND coat their bodies with sevin and de AND coat the legs in Vaseline/Vicks vapo rub.
Will this be too aggressive?
And the first hen who has had had as long as I remember, has just hatched out some chicks. I am not positive that she still has the mites but is there anything other than DE that I can put on her and her nest without harming the babies?
For years this was not a problem. But alas I guess everyone goes thru it eventually....
