Scaly Leg Mites - Need Best / Easiest / Quickest Solution - Scaley

[Beekissed]

Maybe wetting them and then sealing in that moisture with the castor oil is causing the scales to remain disfigured or unable to lie down properly? I'm not sure...just spit ballin' on that one. My old boy's gnarly leg is almost all smooth now and I only soaked and washed his scales once before the castor oil treatment....time and the emollient of the oil seems to have wrought miracles. I'm even more impressed with the castor oil for this problem than I am with the Nustock.

 

[RoseMarie1]

yeah I'm with Bee on that. Might be the moisture isn't letting the oil get into where it needs to get into and also making it hold the moisture there as well.

 

[ChickyNamibia]

Good morning Rosemarie and Beekissed, this sounds plausible so I'll wash them on one day to brush off the old scales as they really seem to enjoy that and than for the rest of the month I'll just dipp them once a week. Let's see maybe this will help. As soon as the babies are a little bigger I will start dipping them as well. Has any of you got a bright idea on what to do with normal mites. They seem to bug especially my cock since he decided to start crowing at 4 in the morning. Remember I live in Namibia so I can only go back on house ointments and nothing to be bought, since we will not help it here. Have a lovely day.

 

[Jeniferl29]

I got an Old English roo from someone and he had scaley leg mites so bad I thought his toe was going to fall off. I treated him with Ivomec and I mixed up Vaseline and sevin dust and tried to get it up under his scales to kill the mites. One treatment and the mites are gone!

 

[Fancychooklady]

I had a broody hen with terrible legs, so I lathered her up with Vaseline while she was brooding. Now that she is off the nest her legs are clean. I don't have time to bathe chickens, so I want it to be a "one off" treatment.

 

[Beekissed]

Good morning Rosemarie and Beekissed, this sounds plausible so I'll wash them on one day to brush off the old scales as they really seem to enjoy that and than for the rest of the month I'll just dipp them once a week. Let's see maybe this will help. As soon as the babies are a little bigger I will start dipping them as well. Has any of you got a bright idea on what to do with normal mites. They seem to bug especially my cock since he decided to start crowing at 4 in the morning. Remember I live in Namibia so I can only go back on house ointments and nothing to be bought, since we will not help it here. Have a lovely day.

I'm not sure what you have access to where you live...if you have some kind of fine dust that they can dust in on a regular basis that seems to be a needed maintenance for them. Dusting them with sulfur powder, pyrethrin powder, etc. seem to help keep them gone longer. Wood ashes seem to last awhile but that's something that has be repeated often to help them. Sweet lime, not the caustic lime, can help also. Be careful with all these fine powders at getting them in your own lungs as they can be an irritant.

You can also deposit these fine dust like powders into their regular dusting places and let them treat themselves. If you can get it, the pyrethrin dust is all natural and long acting and will give you the longest and best results for regular mites.

 

[RoseMarie1]

I'm not sure what you have access to where you live...if you have some kind of fine dust that they can dust in on a regular basis that seems to be a needed maintenance for them. Dusting them with sulfur powder, pyrethrin powder, etc. seem to help keep them gone longer. Wood ashes seem to last awhile but that's something that has be repeated often to help them. Sweet lime, not the caustic lime, can help also. Be careful with all these fine powders at getting them in your own lungs as they can be an irritant.

You can also deposit these fine dust like powders into their regular dusting places and let them treat themselves. If you can get it, the pyrethrin dust is all natural and long acting and will give you the longest and best results for regular mites.

I gotta check and see if I can find that pyrethrin powder here. I have some sulfur but it's in pill form. Would probably take the whole bottle and more to be enough. lol bought it to make me some nu-stock with. lol

 

[Beekissed]

Oh, Rose, you are a funny woman! Next time you can get sulfur dust at Lowe's for about $5 and it's a whole can of powder, so you won't have to crush up any pills. It's over in the garden department with the rest of the pesticide powders and dusts.

 

[RoseMarie1]

Oh, Rose, you are a funny woman! Next time you can get sulfur dust at Lowe's for about $5 and it's a whole can of powder, so you won't have to crush up any pills. It's over in the garden department with the rest of the pesticide powders and dusts.

lol oh ok,,,,,, so I didn't need these pills after all. lol it's just called sulfur dust? wow will get me some of that cuz now I don't wanna use what I been using sevin dust.

cuz I don't wanna kill my GOOD BUGS ya know in my DLM........ya don't know what cha don't know Bee. SEE how much I am learning from you? You're such a blessing to me!!! I talk about Bee ALL the time!!!

LOVVVVVE learning from you! So I am off to Lowes next trip to Hattiesburg to get me some sulfur in a can! ALSO where do you find this pyrethrin powder? Do you get that at a farm supply or feed store or Lowes?

I been just using poisons around here until I got the chicks and can't do that now cuz don't wanna kill my chicks. ALSO trying to teach the others that are here, you CAN'T SPRAY that now, you'll kill my chicks if they get that poisoned bug!

 

[Beekissed]

You are the blessing, my dear! Such a funny, sweet spirit...very rare nowadays! The Pyrethrin should be at Lowe's or any garden center. Don't make the mistake I made once and get the Permethrin powder instead...it's the synthetic version of the pyrethrin and does the same job but is just the more chemically form of it... not biodegradable and though I know we've probably eaten a ton of it because they use it on commercial crops, no need to put it straight into our food supply.


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