help needed leg mites

uno. Well, Uno, don't know where to put my post when I quote so let's see what happens here.  Eprinex works well for leg mites.  And lice.  You must have me mistaken for someone who cares about the environment!  I am all about the chemicals when dealing with parasites.  Hit them and hit them hard I say.  Nothing like a good dose of chemical to kill the critters. wrote: If not, buy a bottle of Eprinex (now brace for Sue who will say it doesn't work. I don't think she was doing it right)

SUE, I see we were posting at the same time! Oil. Ha ha, you kill me!

uno wrote:Finally I quit fooling around and pulled out the big guns. I Eprinexed the flock (was also treating for lice and fowl mites at the same time). Eprinex is not a one time cure. Eprinex is a commitment to re-apply at timed intervals. But it was the only thing that worked. Once I got the crawlers and their descendants of laid eggs under control, I hung a no pest strip in the hen house.

I used the big guns to beat back the enemy, then  hung a No PEst barrier that keeps them away. This takes time and effort. But it worked. My bird's legs are clean as a whistle.

uno wrote:Rowdy, I would dose the flock every 2 weeks, 3 times, so 3 doses over 6 weeks. I don't know why I would do this, I just would.

Since there is no dose size on the bottle, people have calculated the best guess, which I about 5 mm. A tiny squirt from a tiny syringe WITHOUT THE NEEDLE! But I found fiddling with the syringe a pain in the butt. I got an eye dropper instead. Squeezed the dropper bulb flat, sucked up some Eprinex, and squirted that on the back of the chicken's neck, on the skin, part the feathers. This is not an exact measurement. This is a 'close enough' measurement. No one died. I think under dosing may be ineffective and  might help build resistant bugs.

As someone else already said, it can take a long time for the legs to look better, even after the leg mites are gone. If the legs and toes are really gross and lumpy, you can soak the bird in warm, mildly soapy water and then try and work off some of those gnarly crusts by rubbing with a wet cloth. That would be good to do now in warmer weather. Might help the legs look better, faster.

Once you have the mites and lice and other cooties under control, back up your good work with a NoPest strip.

pops coops wrote:Ivomec injectable in the only source of water and they are gone as well as most internal parasites

bigrock wrote:but....why the pest strip??

lanaire-ranching wrote:

pops coops wrote:Ivomec injectable in the only source of water and they are gone as well as most internal parasites

How much?  (the Ivomec to water ratio to bird ratio is what I meant )