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Mites and Scaly Legs |
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By: Travis Rayner Date: February 7, 2018, 7:41 am |
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We have noticed an increase in scaly legs on one of our older |
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girls. This, along with most health conditions we have never |
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had to deal with, personally...so it is my turn to ask for |
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advice! Recommendations for kill and control would be greatly |
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appreciated. Thanks! |
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Re: Mites and Scaly Legs |
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By: Kathy Rayner Date: March 17, 2018, 5:54 pm |
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I spent the morning watching chickens and digging thru chicken |
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poop. Poop is clean! YAY! But, I have determined that some |
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girls have scaly leg mites. I thought at first it could be |
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because we have so much excess water standing here on the river |
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but I am treating it as it is mites. We were gone for 9 days on |
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a trip and the house sitter is not a chicken person.... so, when |
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we got back I scoured the coop and cleaned everything but I |
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think since I had loaded the poop tray with chopped hay (to soak |
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up excess poop and whatever) I may have introduced mites to the |
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coop. Five girls have scaly legs (either one or both) so I |
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soaked them in warm water with VetRX. Then I coated their legs |
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with VetRX and Vaseline. It was spa day at the Steel Magnolia! |
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The girls loved it so tomorrow I'll do it again. Afterward, I |
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wiped down the roost poles with a mixture of neem oil and hot |
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water. We are out of DE so I will get some tomorrow and add that |
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to their dusting spots. I also went next door and broke off a |
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camphor limb and beat the poles and inside of the coop with |
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that. Then, I stuck the branch under the poop tray. Trying to |
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stay all natural, but will re-evaluate if that is not effective. |
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