You can use Vaseline mixed with sulphur powder, which is basically what Major scale away is, with the exclusion of rotenone. I stopped using pestene because it contains rotenone which has been linked to Parkinson's disease. Just remember that eggs are very porous and anything you lather their legs with will ultimately make it into your food chain. I've used and recommended Vicks for 15 years. It is soothing and generally only needs to be applied a few times. Spinosad is the new generation pesticide and is completely organic. Marketed here as comfortis for dogs it is also in the garden section Yates Success.
Friend showed me hers, the "plant" looked like snot in a jar 
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But what there is of it, she raises in pleasure..... eats like a horse, and can walk - even run when there is special tucker being given. But she still prefers to sit a lot. Not that I blame her - she knows where she is best off in the dreadful wet / cold we've been having. Freezing to the bone stuff. She prefers her bed or dryness of the coop. Perfectly happy and healthy. Mindy is laying 5 eggs a week. Molly and Mandy - zilch. Molly looks superb, but is quite a bit lighter in weight and doesn't eat anywhere near as much as Mandy or Mindy do. Yet she seems healthy. Both big girls have shrunken combs, but with good colour and no nasties on them. They are all 5 yrs old in September.
