Scaly leg mites and vaseline not working??

[unix_micki]

I have been using vaseline for 3 weeks, three times a week for those dang leg mites, legs look better but not completely healed

what is my next step, i need something that works real good....i am going to seven dust and vaseline tonight again.

I have ivermectin horse paste, would that work mixed with vaseline??

Please help!!!

 

[Erica]

Takes ages for leg scales to regrow! You've probably killed the mites by now, just hang in there... You'll start seeing new scales at some point.

Only other thing I'd do is dust the roost area so they don't get reinfested.
regards
Erica

 

[cravenchx]

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Dust with Sevin?

 

[ChickenCrazy4ever]

HOw do you know your chickens has the mites?

 

[unix_micki]

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ok, will do that now

dang things

 

[unix_micki]

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scales on their legs are raised up.

 

[KandiandJerry]

Are you mixing the Sevin in with the Vasoline....this is what we do.......it works better....

 

[welasharon]

THe scales don't necessarily go down even after the mites are killed. Somewhere, when I was dealing with that, I read that they eventually shed them but then others said that they do not. I don't know but am pretty sure you've killed the mites.
sharon

 

[unix_micki]

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not mixing it, will give it a try

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

I like to dip the leg and foot in a cup of mineral oil. So easy and fast. I do it every day for two weeks, but near the end I go to every other day. Yes- dust them also as I have read the scaly leg mite can attack the face (don't get the dust in their eyes, nose, or mouth),
http://ohioline.osu.edu/vme-fact/0018.html
talks about sevin dust