need clarification on treatment and prevention of spread of scaly leg mites

[eastman5]

I have 29 chickens on my property, plus 4 turkeys in 4 separate coops. All the laying hens are let out to free range several times a week. Yesterday, I noticed one of my laying hens has what appears to be scaly leg mites. I have researched this site and a few others and decided to treat all the chickens and turkeys as follows: rub canola oil on all their legs (I had just gotten a gallon from BJ's, so I had plenty), plus remove all bedding and dust down the coops, roosts, and chickens with Sevin dust. I am concerned that we will be unable to continue treating their legs for the recommended week as I am due to have a baby on Wednesday. Will it be enough that they had some oil treatments, plus the dust? Do we have to re-strip the coops and re-powder everything in a week to ten days? Is their something else I should try since we will be unable to continue the oil rub throughout the recommended time period? Thank you in advance for any advice.

 

[froggiesheins]

I have 29 chickens on my property, plus 4 turkeys in 4 separate coops.  All the laying hens are let out to free range several times a week.  Yesterday, I noticed one of my laying hens has what appears to be scaly leg mites.  I have researched this site and a few others and decided to treat all the chickens and turkeys as follows:  rub canola oil on all their legs (I had just gotten a gallon from BJ's, so I had plenty), plus remove all bedding and dust down the coops, roosts, and chickens with Sevin dust.  I am concerned that we will be unable to continue treating their legs for the recommended week as I am due to have a baby on Wednesday.  Will it be enough that they had some oil treatments, plus the dust?  Do we have to re-strip the coops and re-powder everything in a week to ten days?  Is their something else I should try since we will be unable to continue the oil rub throughout the recommended time period?  Thank you in advance for any advice. 

Switch to Vaseline, it stays on the legs longer. IF you can do this it will help speed things up: get affected bird, hold in your lap on its back...and use a cuticle pusher or the end of the file that comes with a pair of nail clippers and scrape all the goobers out from under the scales...Then slobber and rub in the vaseline really good.....been there/done this and it WORKS!
Congratulations on your new addition! [to come that is}......:

P.S. everything else you have done is great!