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[keyhole kate]

Help Guys ?

 

I have returned from Holiday to find a couple of the girls have raised

scales on there legs Scaly Leg I presume?

 

Advice Solutions medication all gratefully received

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I sprayed with Johnson's Antimite Spray (remember that it is not licenced for poultry in UK and you should withdraw eggs for 3 days too) .

 

Before bedtime I dunked the leg in a cutoff milk carton filled with surgical spirit then slathered vaseline all over the leg & foot. Then popped her into the eglu. (I reckoned the vaseline wouldn't end up covered with stuff that way!)

 

A week later, the same treatment again. It seemed to work .

[keyhole kate]

Thanks ANH

 

Probably me being dumb do I spray the all the chook with

Johnson's Antimite Spray or just there leg and foot

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Just the affected leg .

[keyhole kate]

I might have overdone it a bit all nine chooks sprayed

on bums armpits legs and feet with J anti mite I will buy surgical spirit and vaseline tomorroow at lunchtime

 

has been stripped scrubbed with barrier V1

Roosting bars,poo trays and back panel have all been in the bath for a hot soak and scrub

 

I am shattered but Chooks come first

 

Thanks for your help ANH

[The Dogmother]

You will need to treat all the chooks as it's easily picked up. The scales will have an exude or crust under them if they have the mites.

 

After the mites have been killed, the scales will remian raised and manky looking until the hen moults them off; please don't be tempted to pick them off. Unfortunately, their legs never look pristine again.

[keyhole kate]

Thanks Claret

 

Two definately have scales as you describe the very idea of

picking I might try some Bio Oil once cleared to give them lovely

legs again unless anyone thinks this is not a good idea

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Must admit I didn't do my other girls . Looks like I was lucky they didn't get it too .

[The Dogmother]

The oil might work, although the manky scales need to moult off under their own steam.

 

Old chicken farmers used to use old diesel oil (totally toxic) to get rid of scaley leg mites, it works by smothering the mites and killing them, much as Vaseline would. The only thing with using oil is that all the garden muck sticks to it

 

One of my girls is more prone to them than the others; I make sure that they are all dosed regularly with Ivermectin* as a preventative, then spray her legs with the Johnson's spray*

 

*not licenced for use on poultry in the UK.