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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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 Posted: Tue Mar 20, 18 12:15 pm Post subject: Scaly leg on a Bantam chicken |
 
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Any advice?
My neighbour over the road's banty has scaly leg. |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35907
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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Vaseline all over the legs from toe to feathers once a week for three or four weeks.
You can dip the leg in surgical spirit as well, but I think it stings. The vaseline works just as well. |
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 18 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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is benzyl benzoate the chemical spray? I've just heard that that is used on humans (crabs) and horses ( sweet/sweat itch ?) too and is in sudocrem  |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35907
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 18 9:07 am Post subject: |
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I'm not sure. The vaseline - or anything like that that you smear on, suffocates the mites. Active ingredients help a bit I think, but I do think, from observation, that they sting the bird, because the mites have burrowed in to the flesh under the scales. Sudocrem would work simply because it's thick, like vaseline; any active ingredient to kill the mites that didn't harm the bird would be a bonus.
Traditionally I think you used creosote or turps, which I suppose kills them.
The scales stay raised until the bird next moults and can look pretty grim - you aren't supposed to pick them off or anything, as it is painful for them. |
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frewen
Joined: 08 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 18 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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I used Vaseline when one of mine got it. Seemed to do the trick  |
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 6675
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 18 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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He used to use WD40 on the budgies he breeds 
Apparently it worked as they haven't had it for years.
How do birds get scaly leg? |
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frewen
Joined: 08 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 18 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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I don’t know where the mites come from. |
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