I have a Bantam hen who has foot problems. Her nails have had to be cut because they've grown so long, and her foot is covered with a white, crusty fungus. Actually, we have two Bantam hens with this problem. Any suggestions as to what's wrong?
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Re: Chicken foot fungus
Thu, April 27, 2006 - 1:55 PMIs it truly a fungus or a really bad case of leg mites? The use of the word crusty leads me to think that you might have a bad case of mites..... -
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Re: Chicken foot fungus
Wed, March 12, 2008 - 1:24 PMI seem to have this problem too from a rooster I bought from eggbid. He was supposed to be a young healthy Blue Belgian Quail with hen and I got an old one with crusty feet. I have tried the usual remedies for scally leg mite but they don't seem to be working. I have kept him separate with the hen...until she died and there is no sign of it in my other birds. I have had him almost a year now. Has anyone got any ideas where to go with this?
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Wed, March 12, 2008 - 8:13 PMcan you post pictures? I would like to see what your are referring too. -
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Re: Chicken foot fungus
Thu, March 13, 2008 - 6:49 AMwithout checking the chicken book and posting off the top of my head
if you can get a hold of some plantain leaves.....it is a common weed here, some web sites like mountain rose herbs may have some dried or in oil...the oil be better...and/ or some calendula they are both anti-fungals ( on people )
so if it truely is a fungus....i would try it. if you could externally clean it with a tea or oil of the same it could aid more as well. a bitch to hold the chickens and smear though, alone at least .
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Re: Chicken foot fungus
Wed, March 19, 2008 - 3:02 PMIf it is mites you could try spraying chickens with flea/mite spray (from local pet stores, the type for cats/dogs). I spray under wings, behinds around tail, legs and nest boxes. You can also buy a general bug/flea/mite killer for chickens that you mix with water and spray throughout the coop when you clean it (especially perches and cracks/crevices). I mix it in the type of sprayer you use for spraying trees.
There is also a power you can scatter on the coop floor when you clean it to sanitize it and keep other bugs from multiplying.
If it is a fungus you could try mixing tea tree oil with veg oil and painting it on the feet/legs. But mites sound more logical. Fungus usually needs moisture and is usually a moist type of growth, not crusty as you describe.
I know this isn't very organic but it works!
Some chickens I got at auction had leg mite, but I controlled it as above and it didn't pass to the other chickens.
Good luck.
