Looking for clarification on leg mites

[Tookie]

If you don't see any but your still worried give them a warm dawn dish soap bath. Kills whatever bugs might be on them and completely safe for chickens. Search up how to give them a bath and you'll do great.

I love giving my chickens a dawn dish soap bath! I'm currently dealing with mites and when I give them a bath with dawn it gets almost all of them off! Of course a bath probably won't get all the mites off but baths do really help!

 

[Prop toe]

Mix some permectrin in there.The soap break down the oils In the feathers and the permectrin will work better.I always mixed a cup of soap and proper amount of permectrin.Permectrin comes in different strengths instructions guide you.They stay wet for a while so I prefer to fo it on a fairest day of weather possible.I have used salt on dogs mixed with soap 3 oz pet gal of water and wipe fleas out.The cup of soap and Permectrin are mixed in 5 gals of water. Also a dose of ivomec is a 2 nd Punch on them pest.Cheers

 

[Prop toe]

Ohh I just dip them in the bucket.cheers

 

[dawg53]

You also have to treat inside coops including nest boxes and roosts. Remove bedding and burn it or discard it far away from pens/coops.
I recommend Permethrin 10% liquid concentrate or Permethrin dust to treat inside coops etc.

For scaly leg mites, only roosts will need to be treated preferably with a light coat of vaseline or Nu-Stock.

 

[JacksonChickies]

You also have to treat inside coops including nest boxes and roosts. Remove bedding and burn it or discard it far away from pens/coops.
I recommend Permethrin 10% liquid concentrate or Permethrin dust to treat inside coops etc.

For scaly leg mites, only roosts will need to be treated preferably with a light coat of vaseline or Nu-Stock.

Why only roosters??

 

[coach723]

Roosts, not roosters. Where they roost at night. For scaly leg mites they can get in nooks and crannies on roosts, but tend not to travel all over the coop like other kinds of poultry mites do. So if you only are treating for scaly leg mites you can treat the roosts but not necessarily have to do the entire coop. Both roosters and hens can get all the kinds of parasites.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Why only roosters??

"Roosts" not roosters.
You will want to treat the roosts if you have SLM.
Personally, I would spray the whole coop down with Permethrin spray if I had SLM, that would include nesting boxes and roosts. While usually SLM are slow to migrate, they can and do.

For scaly leg mites, only roosts will need to be treated preferably with a light coat of vaseline or Nu-Stock.