Does any one use ivermectin in chickens ?

casportpony said:

Quote: Maybe this is what I was reading about here....injectables and other drenches. Too many drugs out there to keep track of!!

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casportpony said:

TwoCrows said:

Kathy, isn't there something like Ivomec?? that is applied differently? I thought I read a thread here once that these two Pour Ons differ? 

I may just be confusing this with something else. It has been a long time since I read that thread and I am not going to go digging for it. LOL

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So far the only pour on I have found is for cattle, and all are 5mg/ml. There's also the 1% injectable *and* an oral one for sheep. The injectable is 10mg/ml and the sheep drench is 0.8mg/ml. There might be others, but that is what I have found so far.

-Kathy

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Akrnaf2 said:

Quote: Shalom Kathy
Do you use pour on ivermectine as a chicken de wormer?
Can you please tell me the dosage in :mg (drug)/kilo (chicken)?
And against what type of worms it is useful?
Thanks
Benny
Hi Benny, there are many people that have lost their chickens to worms thinking it's an effective wormer. So no, I do not use it alone, though I have been known to experiment with it and Safeguard together.

What worms does it treat? If you ask me, I'll say none just because of the studies I have read and the necropsy pictures I have seen.

As for dose, the dose that's recommended for poultry, depending on what book you look at is:
1% injectable or an oral product - 200-400 micrograms per kg.

For the pour on I cannot find a properly documented source that says what the dose for birds is, so what if I were going to use it, I would go by what it says for cattle, and I think that's 500 micrograms per kg.

I'm not the only one on BYC that won't rely on it's effectiveness as wormer... there are many more like me, lol.

-Kathy

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casportpony said:

Hi there! How have you been? What do you want the ivermectin for?

-Kathy

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JensChickies said:

I don't have a rooster, this is all her

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TwoCrows said:

That doesn't look like mites. This could be molting, aggression from another bird or she is chewing them off her self due to dietary issues or stress. If she continues to chew off feathers all over her body and strips feathers clean leaving just the shaft in various places all over her body, then she could have Quill mites. 

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JensChickies said:

Quote: With Quill mites they strip the feather and just leave the shaft. She doesn't look like she has any mites of any kind. If this is at the base of the neck on the back, it is possible others are aggressive toward her and they are chasing and grabbing at her feathers and pulling them out.

Northern Fowl mites are one of the most common of mites and you will see what looks like black dirt at the bases of the feathers. These are eggs. Her feather shafts look clean.

I think this is aggression from another bird. Take some goodies up for your birds and toss them around the run and watch carefully. If she is losing these feathers to aggression, you will definitely see it at treat time.

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