Scaly leg mites

[ChickyMudder]

My question about other types of mites is because I *think* I'm done treating for northern fowl mites. Dusting with permethrin and spraying with permethrin was... an adventure. Even at night with a red headlamp, treating the birds on the roost was not the easiest or most efficient.

So if a few drops of liquid Ivermectin on the neck of a bird would work, that would be what I'd use if the problem recurs or if I didn't get them all and they resurge.

I also ordered some elemental sulfur and am going to mix that in with dirt/peat/ashes in a dust bath for them. And I'm going to put up a "bopping sock" above the pop door. I'd read that a sock with sulfur in that location was a good way for them to get some sulfur dust on their back, and that that was an old fashioned mite treatment for chickens.

What ever treatments you do - make sure you repeat it 7 days apart to kill hatching mites before they can breed again.

 

[Sally PB]

What ever treatments you do - make sure you repeat it 7 days apart to kill hatching mites before they can breed again.

Yes, I did. Thanks for mentioning this for others reading the thread in the future.