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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: welsh_cob on April 08, 2015, 09:14:35 pm

Title: Treating scaly leg
Post by: welsh_cob on April 08, 2015, 09:14:35 pm

One of my hens has got a mild case of scaly leg, I tried the antibacterial 'purple spray' and that has put it at bay a little. I was going to start treating her by lathering petroleum jelly on the affected areas. I have heard of bathing in diluted white vinegar or oil. I wondered what natural remedies you have used and found successful?

Title: Re: Treating scaly leg
Post by: in the hills on April 09, 2015, 08:47:14 am

Vaseline worked well for ours. Repeated a couple of times each week for 2-3 weeks.

Title: Re: Treating scaly leg
Post by: lord flynn on April 09, 2015, 09:22:15 am

benzyl benzoate-you must do it regularly for a fair while as the mite can persist in the run etc for up to a month.

Title: Re: Treating scaly leg
Post by: lord flynn on April 12, 2015, 06:47:11 pm

they won't actually sell it for animal use anymore-get it from hyper drug. the other thing used for scabies in humans in Africa is ivermectin..

Title: Re: Treating scaly leg
Post by: kelly58 on April 12, 2015, 08:06:29 pm

You can get scaly leg mite spray, pets at home sell it. Then daub legs with vaseline or paraffin  based cream.
Worked on one of mine  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Treating scaly leg
Post by: darkbrowneggs on April 12, 2015, 09:20:59 pm

In the old days we used to dip their legs in paraffin which seemed to work well after just one treatment.

Title: Re: Treating scaly leg
Post by: kelly58 on April 12, 2015, 09:42:55 pm

Not allowed to now! So our vet advised us.

Title: Re: Treating scaly leg
Post by: lord flynn on April 12, 2015, 09:48:10 pm

Quote from: kelly58 on April 12, 2015, 08:06:29 pm

You can get scaly leg mite spray, pets at home sell it.

its watered down benzyl benzoate.

Title: Re: Treating scaly leg
Post by: Castle Farm on April 14, 2015, 08:05:12 am

Sudocreme works well.

Title: Re: Treating scaly leg
Post by: Marches Farmer on April 14, 2015, 09:06:04 am

We bought in a cockerel with scaly leg some years ago and used white spirit - worked after one treatment.

Title: Re: Treating scaly leg
Post by: mojocafa on April 14, 2015, 02:50:22 pm

Excuse my ignorance... :thinking:


Would you pour white spirit into something and dip the legs in for a few seconds or put the spirit into a scooshy bottle and spray it on?

Title: Re: Treating scaly leg
Post by: Marches Farmer on April 14, 2015, 03:00:17 pm

I think we did the first one, and dipped.