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

[katsmajic]

Def no signs of other nastier diseases thank goodness. ..

 

[Sheila in Mexic]

Debbie, I am going to try to find castor oil here in Mexico - - - - - - - wish me luck........ I am intriged with the idea of using it on my face and body - - - have VERY dry skin but when I use comercial creams i get black heads ( at 65 years old !! ) Can I use it in that way IF I can find it ?

Have two chickens with scally mites - bought one liter of inexpensive cooking oil and a 50ml bottle of injectable 1% ivomec - mixed it into the oil and put it in a large plastic tub ( I cant believe it is not butter tub - just the right size ) washed off the girls legs ( wet and muddy here )and dipped their legs into the tub and held them there for about 1 minute so that all that good stuff could soak all the way in. At first they were not happy campers but I guess the oil felt good on their itchy legs and they seemed happy to sit there and let me love them. Dried them off and let loose - will let you know what the results are. Of my 20 bird flock only these two seem to have the problem.

Love this forum but have had problems being able to post - - - -- hope this one does work. This is the third time I have had chickens - the first time there were 13 here in the house. Then I opened a small farm and had 250 layers and sold the eggs, but then got he big C and had to close the whole farm. Now I am feeling a bit better and had to put in a coop and run where 20 birds fit. Hen keeping is an addiction -along with our 5 cats and 3 dogs. I so enjoy their quirks and diff personalities, same in the dogs and cats.

Have been hanging cabbage heads for them and they go thru a whole head a day and love it ! Today I also gave them a large bundle of kale - see if the like it as much.

May your nest boxes be always full.

Sheila in Mexico

 

[curiositykt]

what about blue-kote?

I was thinking soak them, then spray them with blue-kote, it seems like it would work and eliminate the slippery chicken issue, though maybe it's not enough to soak in and under the scales?

My cases aren't terrible, out of 9 chickens, about half have a few scales on each foot..

Also we are using the deep litter coop method, do I have to take all the litter out of the coop? I've been tossing scoop fulls of DE up in the nest boxes and on the roosts, but this doesn't seem to be enough to prevent this...

 

[149east]

Katsmajic, so sorry about your problems! We had a bad case of the scaly leg mites about 6 months ago, what I learned was that this is a slow issue - the mites were slow to leave, and I think they are slow to come in. We were lucky as we had a separate house and were able to take the single affected chook and isolate/ treat her, for maybe 8 weeks. I think that was probably excessive - maybe just do what you can treating her for 2 weeks or so and see how that goes (we also only used vaseline and a little sulphur at the end... that probably made it all go pretty slowly). On the other hand, she's not going to die from the mites - maybe you want to have her walking well first, then treat?

 

[Sheila in Mexic]

Hi All !!

Up date on my scaly leg problem. Dipped both girls hip deep in canola oil with ivermec mixed in it. ( 1 lit oil x 50 ml ivo ) Talk about poor messy chcickens !! Then a week later washed them with soap and water, reapplied oil and put a drop of ivo under each wing on armpit. Took three applications in all (21 days ) ( mites have a life cycle of 7 to 10 days ) but now the girls have pretty pink feet. In the coop I gave it a good dusting of "cal" I think it is called lime (?) in English as I cannot get any of the other stuff that was recomended. Bought the ivo at a farm store and it was 50ml for about $4 US. Now that the mites are solved have to tackle the bumblefoot - both of these girls have it on both feet - -- - - - - - - - - - - - NOT looking forward to treating that !!!
Saludos de Mexico !

 

[jjthink]

Apologize for not being able to read prior responses but in case it hasn't been said in awhile, Bagbalm has worked brilliantly at times when I've had feathered friends with scaly, even bleeding legs/tootsies. Complete regeneration. I reapplied each day in the beginning and then less and less as things improved. Just gently and thoroughly administered the salve, and it seemed that afterward, the subject of my albeit at times unwanted attention felt so much better

JJ

 

[LavenderCrow]

Hello! I purchased my first chickens, a pair of OEGB Creles, quite a while ago from the flea market. I didn't realize at the time that the rooster had severe leg mites (scales were falling off.) I've since treated him in various ways (warm soapy water, mineral oil, vaseline, and even AC vinegar.) His scales still aren't really growing back. I'm going to treat him again, but use iodine this time. When can I expect scales to grow back, if at all? If they don't, does he need them? This winter is supposed to get incredibly cold and I'd like to not have to heat my coops, but if it'll be a problem for him then I will.

 

[Sheila in Mexic]

I am totally convinced with two drops of ivomec under each wing ( in armpit ) once a week for 4 weeks. AND one totally immersion of legs in coooking oil for 5 minutes with a small vail of invomec mixed in - -which makes a horrible mess but they do feel better afterwards. The ivomec takes care of the post immersion hatching egg mites. Ivomec is safe for egg consumptoion as it is used in human medicine to treat some human skin conditions. You just need a small bottle and I used a needles less insuline syringe to apply it to the skin and then massage it in.

I have included it in my three month maintaince routine - - - Newcastle, pox, triple and one dose of ivomec. Every 6 months will also do a treatment of sulfas. Here in Mexico we have very large problems with our chicken populations. Whole flocks are just wiped out when not vacinated adequately. Been there done that. There is nothing more heart breaking then taking loveling care of a young flock for 6 months and then when they are just starting to lay in three days they all die. That happened because I believed the breeder when he told me they were vacinated and did not require any more ................... since then have been self educated and have lost only one to a resperatory problem that did not respond to treatment. ( Over 600 layers over the years since then ).

 

[roguedesigns]

All five of my girls had it for quite some time before I realized what it was, but no one seemed to get it too badly or to be in pain thank goodness.
We just cleaned out the coop and sprinkled plenty of sevin powder into all the nooks and crannies in the coop, and painted the Vaseline on to their feet. I can't see that being fun to do every day, so I'll probably switch to dunking in oil or spraying with Pam. They were not pleased at all with us capturing them to mess with their feet, and now that it's winter, it'll be dark by the time I get home.
The Vaseline certainly didn't seem to stay on them very long, so I'm worried that it's not going to be very good at smothering the mites. . . definitely intrigued by the Nu-Stock; might pick some of that up.
Vaseline + mud + pine shavings + feathered feet? Ugh.

 

[Beekissed]

Try castor oil(any pharmacy should have it, just ask)...cheaper than NS and only one good application will stay on and work well for many days. Mine only needed the one application but if your mites are pretty bad, you may need to reapply a month or so later if you don't start to see new scale growth going on. If you use it, be patient and just watch...it's amazing how quickly new scales start to form and old are sloughed off. Massage it in well, upward into the scales and all over the leg and foot.

The CO also works well for frost bite...both for prevention and for treatment if you've already had an incident of frosted tips.