legs!

[Sunbeam]

My one non-ex bat chicken (the one you can never get within 5 feet of) has rather dodgy looking legs - I'd noticed it before, but thought they were just covered in dried mud - with all the rain we've had etc, but they are getting worse, almost knobberly, and I can now make out tiny orangey red coloured spots on them (blood??) Catching her is going to be fun (any suggestions on how to catch a 'wild' chicken - she sleeps in the trees with one of the other girls)

Anyone know what this might be & if I can catch her, how to treat it

Adi

[kirsty b]

http://www.freewebs.com/professorchi...ScalyLeg01.jpg

If it looks like this it could be scaly leg mite.

My Light Sussex has had it and I was advised by someone on here to dip it in surgical spirit (just the leg, not the whole hen) then smear with vaseline to suffocate the mites.
I started a thread Scaly Leg Mite, here
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ite_19555.html

[Sunbeam]

Thanks, Kirsty - I googled images for Scaly Leg mite after you mentioned it the other day, and I'll treat as such, although Dolly's legs are far worse than those in the pic. NOw I have to catch her - she ain't gonna be happy.....!

[di]

Thanks, Kirsty - I googled images for Scaly Leg mite after you mentioned it the other day, and I'll treat as such, although Dolly's legs are far worse than those in the pic. NOw I have to catch her - she ain't gonna be happy.....!

I'm guessing the catching her is gonna be the relatively easy bit!!
Good Luck!

[Sunbeam]

She is the most unfriendly chicken I have ever met and a total bully at that! All the others are ex bats, and are happy to be picked up & stroked. Dolly won't even let you near her - when we finally catch her I will be concerned for the welfare of my fingers! In 'Danny Champion of the World' (reading to my son at the mo) they said you can put little paper cones on pheasant's heads and this will stop them moving about, I wonder whether it would work with chickens too!

[MaureenHall]

When you do eventually catch her, hold her upside down, apparently the blood rushes to their head and makes them a bit woosy. I use this method when doing a de-louse session on my lot - mind you, they're ex-batts, and as we all know, they don't really mind being picked up (it's the bum powdering they object to )

[kirsty b]

She is the most unfriendly chicken I have ever met and a total bully at that! All the others are ex bats, and are happy to be picked up & stroked. Dolly won't even let you near her - when we finally catch her I will be concerned for the welfare of my fingers! In 'Danny Champion of the World' (reading to my son at the mo) they said you can put little paper cones on pheasant's heads and this will stop them moving about, I wonder whether it would work with chickens too!

If you need a hand catching her, give me a ring and I'll come and help