The skin on my rooster's legs is splitting.

[zebdoone]

I've first noticed "Red" walking strangely a couple of months ago; like a Nazi goose step.
I know he has scaley mites, and I've been treating him for it. But, I see the skin is splitting open down through the fatty tissue, from where the feathers stop before his feet and up the front of both legs. It almost looks as if someone cut it to start then pulled it apart. Are the mites causing this?

 

[Cathryn]

I would get a bottle of ivermectim pour on and get a drop on each foot and a drop on each leg, with a "small dropper", asap. If you have any other chickens I would treat them too. Clean the coop out completely, wash it down, all of it, spray it down top to bottom with pryethrum, and seal the roost with oil or lineseed oil.

 

[zebdoone]

Thank you; I didn't know I could get Ivermectin in a pour on. A couple of years ago, I found out I could treat everyone, including my turkeys, with Advantage for cats for insects. For various reasons, I hadn't done it yet. So, I found the pour on at Tractor Co. I've been standing his legs in the oil now for days. Anyhow, I'm on it with the pour on; so good to know.