Gammond
Songster
Will spraying chickens' legs with a permethrin spray kill scaly leg mites?
No. Or at least not the way most people would apply it. If you made a foot bath of it, it would probably work but that's an expensive way of killing SLM!Will spraying chickens' legs with a permethrin spray kill scaly leg mites?
No. Or at least not the way most people would apply it. If you made a foot bath of it, it would probably work but that's an expensive way of killing SLM!
The problem then would be the eggs. You would need to bath the legs at least once more after a couple of weeks.
Huh, never heard of this one before.Rubbing alcohol.
Whatever method you choose you're going to have to catch and handle the chickens.
Make a foot bath of Rubbing alcohol and dip the chickens legs in it right up to the feathers.
They need to stand in it for a few seconds to drown the mites. It's the fastest, least messy and cheapest method I know that is chicken friendly.
How did you apply and what formulation of Ivermectin did you use?I had a rooster with scaly leg mites and I gave him Ivermectin. 2 doses, 1 week apart. He was a new rooster and in quarantine so egg withdrawal wasn't an issue.