Whoa! Hold on! Go look at some pictures of scaly leg mite before you go rushing to a diagnosis. Leg mites make the legs look pretty awful. https://www.google.com/search?q=sca...v&sa=X&ei=6k1LU-OiFaXw8AHb2IDQAg&ved=0CEoQsAQ Compare your rooster's legs to those in these photos. Do they look anything like that?
When I had my first rooster, when spring came around and his hormones turned on for the first time, his legs developed some bright red scales, running in streaks down the backs of his legs. It alarmed me, to say the least. He was a Wyandotte, and it turns out that this breed develops this reddening of the leg scales as they come into sexual maturity.
How old is your banty roo? Is he around five or six months old? Is he becoming sexually active? Could be this reddening of his legs is not scaly leg mite at all. If he acts like he's in pain, it could be he's just sexually excited.
When I had my first rooster, when spring came around and his hormones turned on for the first time, his legs developed some bright red scales, running in streaks down the backs of his legs. It alarmed me, to say the least. He was a Wyandotte, and it turns out that this breed develops this reddening of the leg scales as they come into sexual maturity.
How old is your banty roo? Is he around five or six months old? Is he becoming sexually active? Could be this reddening of his legs is not scaly leg mite at all. If he acts like he's in pain, it could be he's just sexually excited.
