Scaly leg

We used vaseline every other night for 2 weeks or so - on all the chickens so there were no clean legs to escape to.

We slathered it on at night after they'd gone to bed so we could keep track of who'd been done and so they wouldn't instantly start covering it in mud.

Not only did we kill of the mites, the scales were softened enough to fall off so the legs went back to being smooth, not rough with dticking out scales.

And we had lovely soft hands......

My brother in law told me he got given a cockerel which had the worse case of scaly leg he had ever seen.  Its legs were like tree stumps!  When he put it in with his hens, they began to peck at his legs and had all of the dead scales pecked off in about a week!!