MITES!

[bucks1chickens]

Good thought. Thanks for the idea.

 

[khind]

For scaly leg mites like you said the scales are lifting up.

I dipped my chickens feet and legs (not feathers!) In cheap gasoline.

I placed it in a small tub and washed the chickens feet first and held them in the tub for like 1 min or less. I repeated this every other day for a while ( a week or two) and the scales came off the chickens feet and they looked healthier.

They look fine now all scaley mites gone!

Gasoline and A&D Ointment Treatment Instructions: 3 day treatment; only 2 days with the gasoline, and the legs are to be only Dipped, not held, in the gas:
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2013/03/scaly-leg-mites-in-chickens.html

 

[khind]

Maybe try to make them a new dusting area? I've heard of people using a small kiddie pool, a big oil pan, or even a shallow hole dug and filled with sand and wood ash. DE appears to be a hot button issue, but I do remember when we had a fire pit my chickens went nuts over it. Came out looking black as sin, but absolutely ecstatic.

Thumbs up to wood ash in the kiddie pool - or other shallow tub large enough to hold at least one at a time. I thought I'd read some people have used an old vehicle tire with the stuff on the ground in the center (the tire just creates a barrier to keep the stuff from getting out all over the place.