Scaly Leg Mites

[cgmccary]

That would be great! I would love to have a few tubes. Let me know & PM me with your address & I'll send you a check.

[Vampyra]

Vaseline alone will work fine. Vaseline, Mineral Oil, Vet-Rx, Campho-phenique, etc all work by suffocating the scaly leg mites which is all that is needed.

Maybe so but scale mites can be hard to get rid of. I wouldn't chance it and I'd mix it with Sevin or poultry dust.

Though I've never used VetRX from reading the ingredients it reminds me of Vicks for humans and I've never been a fan.

Vamp

[cgmccary]

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Originally Posted by cgmccary
Vaseline alone will work fine. Vaseline, Mineral Oil, Vet-Rx, Campho-phenique, etc all work by suffocating the scaly leg mites which is all that is needed.

Maybe so but scale mites can be hard to get rid of. I wouldn't chance it and I'd mix it with Sevin or poultry dust.

Though I've never used VetRX from reading the ingredients it reminds me of Vicks for humans and I've never been a fan.

Vamp

This is not even a debatable topic. You are not chancing it at all by using one of those ingredients without sevin dust mixed in as I have it on authority of many long-time poultry keepers that those things work (one lady who has kept poultry for more than 50 years & writes a column monthly in the Poultry Press is the one who told me about Campho- phenique).

Vet-Rx has been around a long, long time and it is labeled expressly in the literature accompanying it for, among other ailments, use against scaley leg mites in poultry. Likewise, mineral oil & vaseline have been used by thousands of poultry keepers for the last century for scaley leg mites.

Frankly, this is the FIRST time I have ever heard of using sevin dust to get rid of scaley leg mites, mixed or unmixed with anything else. I would not encourage the use of sevin dust. It is especially harmful to honeybees and other beneficial insects. I believe it should be used only when urgently needed.

[montgomerypoultry]

Does anyone have a picture of how the leggs look when inffected?

[JamesC]

montgomerypoultry:
There was a picture in one of the posts a while back, but here's a link to pictures:

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/H...Dis/scaly.html

James

[Vampyra]

Vet-Rx has been around a long, long time and it is labeled expressly in the literature accompanying it for, among other ailments, use against scaley leg mites in poultry. Likewise, mineral oil & vaseline have been used by thousands of poultry keepers for the last century for scaley leg mites.

Frankly, this is the FIRST time I have ever heard of using sevin dust to get rid of scaley leg mites, mixed or unmixed with anything else. I would not encourage the use of sevin dust. It is especially harmful to honeybees and other beneficial insects. I believe it should be used only when urgently needed.

Pet RX is also used as Vicks for chickens (if you read directions about rubbing it under the wings) which in my opinion is a waste of money. I'm quite sure it would work on scaly leg mites I never disputed that but with other cheaper things to use why waste your money on this stuff ? The active ingredient is Camphor which is also in Campho-phenique.

As for using a little Sevin dust mixed with petroleum jelly someone just used it in the forum and put it on his bird every 3 days and had great results. If I get scaly leg mites this is going to be what I use. The dust won't be floating around the air it will be contained in the petroleum jelly.

I use so little Sevin (not even in my garden) or poultry dust I'm not going to worry about bees. If we were all so concerned we'd be stopping farmers from spraying their crops full of these horrible pesticides they are using. The farmer near my house hired a crop duster to spray his crops and he put up HUGE signs all around his field, POISON KEEP OUT. He did this right next to my house! Tell me that doesn't kill bees and it must be wonderful for me.

Vamp

PS: For the person asking about scaly leg mites you will know if your birds get them. Your birds will get thick, white, flaky skin on their legs. Look at how their skin looks smooth when they are healthy because it's very noticeable when they are infected.