A five pound bird should get 45 mg albendazole for it to be effective when treating more than roundworms. Given as shown on the bottle is not enough.
-Kathy
-Kathy
OK Kathy we have already been through this. LOL
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A five pound bird should get 45 mg albendazole for it to be effective when treating more than roundworms. Given as shown on the bottle is not enough.
-Kathy
-Kathy
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Just trying to teach people that different sized birds need different amounts of medication and that many sites have dosing errors on the sites and/or on their products. Twin City Poultry and Durvet are two others with major dosing errors.
-Kathy
and I get that but I guess what your not understanding, the instructions I gave I specifically said this was for My Chicken, that you would need to know the weight of the animal.Just trying to teach people that different sized birds need different amounts of medication and that many sites have dosing errors on the sites and/or on their products. Twin City Poultry and Durvet are two others with major dosing errors.
-Kathy
Quote: This is a perfect example of why people need to get used to telling other people how to calculate doses based on weight. No where in you post did you say how much to give per pound or kilogram.
Another thing, this comment confuses me - "Need the weight of the bird but it's 3/10 of valbezen."
Call or email your vet and ask what the mg/kg dose is.
I still think that the dose as written on the bottle at First State is wrong for *any* bird that weighs *more* than 2.75 pounds, and its probably too much for anything smaller.
Here is a picture of some goose weights:
-Kathy
This is a perfect example of why people need to get used to telling other people how to calculate doses based on weight. No where in you post did you say how much to give per pound or kilogram.
Another thing, this comment confuses me - "Need the weight of the bird but it's 3/10 of valbezen."
Call or email your vet and ask what the mg/kg dose is.
I still think that the dose as written on the bottle at First State is wrong for *any* bird that weighs *more* than 2.75 pounds, and its probably too much for anything smaller.
Here is a picture of some goose weights:
-Kathy
Quote: Of course I agree that people should consult with a vet, but when they can't, they really need to do some research and learn how to give the proper amount of medications, and that means understanding how how many mg per kg to give and how to calculate that based on the weight of the bird.
In this thread, the OP has a bird that's been sick for a month and is under the care of a vet. I don't think it's gapeworms, but it could be, and it would be best for the OP to get a treatment plan from the vet.
First State Vet has taken a bottle of 500 ml Valbazen that costs $45 and has made 5 $32 100 ml bottles and slapped a homemade label on them with dosing directions that are unlikely to treat anything other than roundworms if it's given as directed to anything over 2.75 pounds.
All I'm trying to do here is teach people how to research, do a little math and how they shouldn't trust the dosing on something when it's been repackaged. All the info is out there, one just has to look a little. FWIW, the dosing instructions on the bottle of Valbazen and fenbendazole sold at First State Vet cannot be found in any of the literature I have. Maybe I'll call them and ask where they got them from, 'cause they contradict *every* book or article I have read.
-Kathy
Of course I agree that people should consult with a vet, but when they can't, they really need to do some research and learn how to give the proper amount of medications, and that means understanding how how many mg per kg to give and how to calculate that based on the weight of the bird.
In this thread, the OP has a bird that's been sick for a month and is under the care of a vet. I don't think it's gapeworms, but it could be, and it would be best for the OP to get a treatment plan from the vet.
First State Vet has taken a bottle of 500 ml Valbazen that costs $45 and has made 5 $32 100 ml bottles and slapped a homemade label on them with dosing directions that are unlikely to treat anything other than roundworms if it's given as directed to anything over 2.75 pounds.
All I'm trying to do here is teach people how to research, do a little math and how they shouldn't trust the dosing on something when it's been repackaged. All the info is out there, one just has to look a little. FWIW, the dosing instructions on the bottle of Valbazen and fenbendazole sold at First State Vet cannot be found in any of the literature I have. Maybe I'll call them and ask where they got them from, 'cause they contradict *every* book or article I have read.
-Kathy