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]

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

[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.