Wormer for Peafowl

Safeguard (Fenbendazole..Suspension 10%)
One-day Treatment

Safeguard is the very best wormer for your birds. It will control all of the worms that your Peacock will acquire. Safeguard will kill the adult stage worms, the larval stage and it will suppress the eggs from hatching.

1oz Safeguard to 15-20 lb feed
a. Dissolve one ounce of Safeguard product in one cup of water.
b. Mix this solution well into the feed and give to the livestock as their only feed source for one day. They do not have to eat the whole 15 to 20lbs but all the feed your birds will consume in a day should be provided. The formula can be adjusted as needed. If some of the medicated feed remains and is consumed the next morning, that is OK. Repeat in 10 to 14 days. The recipe can be adjusted to larger or smaller amounts of feed.

The good thing about worming by mixing Safeguard with food is that the Peacock is sure to eat good when they may not drink as much medicated water when it is cooler.

Many find it convenient to pour the cup of worm water into a spray bottle to spray the mixture into the feed as it is mixed. If needed, the medicated feed can be further mixed by pouring it from one bucket to another. Others are mixing the worm water into cat food because Peacocks are so often crazy about cat food and will readily eat more than usual.

Fenbendazole in Safegaurd controls:
cecal worms, capillary worms, roundworms, hookworms, whipworms, the taenia species of tapeworms, pinworms, gape worms, lung worms, flukes, nematode worms and nematode larva.
Safeguard will control worms in all stages from larval to adult and will suppress the hatching of worm eggs present at the time of worming.

This one day worm treatment is published by:
Mississippi State University.


SAFEGURAD GOAT WORMER IS AVAILABLE AT:
EBAY, AMAZON & TRACTOR SUPPLY.

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@PeacockMan , this method is very unlikely to treat anything other than large roundworms.

-Kathy

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-Kathy

casportpony said:

@PeacockMan

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Not likely to do any good Kathy, he propagates a lot of misinformation on his FB page Peacocks Only and every now and again he will do a drive by here to keep the old myths alive.

Now after saying that and overlooking his 'safeguard will suppress worm eggs from hatching' comment, which it won't, I have mixed safeguard in pretty much the same manner. The difference is that I count the birds, I know how much they will eat in a day, and put the correct amount of Safeguard in the feed. That will work but it does take a bit of preparation knowing how much they will eat in a day.

If your birds are used to eating dry crumbles you also need to make the mix dry by not using too much water in the safeguard suspension. (Worm water, )

I have also put Valbazen in the water in much the same way. I first have to know how much the pen of birds will drink in a day. Count the number of birds and figure how much Valbazen to put in the water. In my case I will use 1/4 ml for small birds and 1/2 ml for large birds. Fecals I have run show this will work if enough of the medication is used and all the water drank in a 24 hour period.

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So I just did a quick test... 15 2016 birds @ ~2.2 kg each will eat 5 pounds of food in about six hours.

Safeguard needed would be:
15 x 2.5 = 37.5 kg
37.5 x 50 / 100 = 18. 75 ml of Safeguard per in five pounds of feed

If I were going to do the wormer in the feed this is about how much I would use, and I would do it for 5 days if I wanted to treat for more than large roundworms and/or cecal worms.

-Kathy

casportpony said:

So I just did a quick test... 15 2016 birds @ ~2.2 kg each will eat 5 pounds of food in about six hours.

Safeguard needed would be:
15 x 2.5 = 37.5 kg
37.5 x 50 / 100 = 18. 75 ml of Safeguard per in five pounds of feed

If I were going to do the wormer in the feed this is about how much I would use, and I would do it for 5 days if I wanted to treat for more than large roundworms and/or cecal worms.

-Kathy

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This is exactly how one should go about figuring how to dose birds. Know the amount of medication and know how to get it into the bird whether you orally dose, or put it in the feed.