my chickens have gape worm - help please

So much misinformation it's scary. For gapeworms you need Valbazen (albendazole) or Safeguard (Fenbendazole) horse wormer paste. A couple pea-sized drops in their mouth for 4-5 lb chickens. I use 3-4 pea-sized drops for large fowl chickens. Then repeat in 10 days to get the new ones that hatched from the worm eggs. It wouldn't hurt to repeat 10 days after that also. The vet diagnosed it and he told you to use DE???? An actual VET told you that? Ivomec won't kill gapeworms (but I'm through debating that). DE certainly will NOT either.
 
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I noticed one of my baby chicks opens her beak and stretches quite a bit each day. Then today noticed two of the chicks doing this. I just read this thread and had no clue what gape worm is but can baby chicks straight from the hatchery to my house in an indoor broader catch gape worm? Theyre now 4 weeks old and have had them since their first day after being hatched.
I had their merricks shots done when they were hatched and theyve been eating pnly medicated chick feed.
 
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Hi- I just found this thread- I am having the same problem. I have an established small flock (1 cock, 5 hens) with no problems. Got picked up 6 hatchery chicks on October 3rd. Noticed about a week later the little rooster was "gaping". I thought they were too young but kept an eye on it all the same. He has "gaped" periodically since. I have not noticed any of the others doing this- not even once.

Last night I noticed he is gaping badly when drinking and some of the water is running back out of his mouth. I am going to the feed store at lunch to see if I can get either Valbazen or Safeguard.

My question is the same as NightsInWhiteSilkies- how could he have gotten this as a chick? The young ones were in a brooder/good biosecurity/medicated feed in my basement and not introduced to the older chickens until 3 weeks ago.

Thanks for any help anyone might have. (BTW I'm an older member but could not log in:) Thanks, Laura
 
I am pretty sure the hen I lost tonight had gape worm so I am going to the vet in the morning. I don't want to loose any more of the flock.
 
We have gapeworms and we give them equine dewormed it really help but the sad part is we relized to late and we lost half our birds including my favorite we give them a pea size drop I'd their mouths and make sure they swallow good luck
 
@Ksane you mention a couple pea sized drops, ive seen people say 1 pea sized drop. Im worried Ive under dosed but im also worried about over dosing on the Fnebendazole 10% paste. Can you verify you are giving a couple drops and they are fine? I have a couple chickens that have gape worm and I dont want to lose them. I dosed 1 pea size drop, 4 days ago.
 
Ok old post but I will try anyway.. does anyone know of any red worms other than gapeworm? One of my hens was "off", isolating being picked on, small odd droppings, etc. so I decided to deworm using wazine (found some round worms) and followed up with 2 rounds of valbazen, one after 10 days and a second after 14 days. Found a dropping under a hens roost that looked like it was full of expelled red worms. Any ideas or should I assume it was gape? Did not take pictures as the cleaning was pre-coffee unfortunately...
 

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