Please check my dose of Ivermectin for scale mites.

[WilliamC]

Buff Orpington, 8.5 years old. Weight 5.5lbs
Ivermectin topical 5mg/ml
My calculations came out to .5ml. So half my 1ml syringe behind the neck.
Repeat every week or 2 weeks for a total of 3 doses?
Does this sound correct? I have read so much i am glazed over.

She is in pretty good health but as she is so old i want to make certain i am correct.

I am applying Vaseline to her legs as well and will be stripping her coop of everything and spraying it and her yard with Permethrin 10

Thanks!

 

[Debbie292d]

We did our silkies with that and I took it from this site:
https://bitchinchickens.com/2019/04/29/ivermectin-for-parasite-control/

I used one eye dropper drop on the back of my silkies. I spread the feathers to get it on their skin. We did it at night in the coop, one at a time. We repeated it in 10 days. You'd need more than a drop. See the link. Good luck!

Ours are looking way better now. It's been about 3 weeks since their last treatment.

 

[WilliamC]

We did our silkies with that and I took it from this site:
https://bitchinchickens.com/2019/04/29/ivermectin-for-parasite-control/

I used one eye dropper drop on the back of my silkies. I spread the feathers to get it on their skin. We did it at night in the coop, one at a time. We repeated it in 10 days. You'd need more than a drop. See the link. Good luck!

Ours are looking way better now. It's been about 3 weeks since their last treatment.

Thank you!! So she comes to rounding up 2.5 kilos at a dose of .04ml/kilo equals .1ml. So if that is correct than i would be dosing way too much.

 

[Debbie292d]

Thank you!! So she comes to rounding up 2.5 kilos at a dose of .04ml/kilo equals .1ml. So if that is correct than i would be dosing way too much.

Without doing the math as I sux at that, I just took this statement: So if your bird weighs 2 kilos the dosage would be just less than 2 drops!

My silkies weigh about 2-3 lbs, so about 1 kg, so they'd get 1 drop which is 0.05ml.

Your birds weigh twice what mine do, so wouldn't they get 2 drops? I mean, it's hard to use a dropper to do this if we had to break it down further. Then we'd need to get a little syringe that has ml lines on it.

 

[WilliamC]

Without doing the math as I sux at that, I just took this statement: So if your bird weighs 2 kilos the dosage would be just less than 2 drops!

My silkies weigh about 2-3 lbs, so about 1 kg, so they'd get 1 drop which is 0.05ml.

Your birds weigh twice what mine do, so wouldn't they get 2 drops? I mean, it's hard to use a dropper to do this if we had to break it down further. Then we'd need to get a little syringe that has ml lines on it.

I use a dosing syringe i got from my vet but any one without the needle would work.
The math throws me....always has so i read and read and read than by the end i am confused.

This is what i was using as directions
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/mites-lice-now-hen-growling.1242981/page-2#post-19965544

She is 5.5 lbs so i was going with .5 ml as a max dose.

 

[Debbie292d]

I use a dosing syringe i got from my vet but any one without the needle would work.
The math throws me....always has so i read and read and read than by the end i am confused.

I think you have it though. .10 ml for your 5.5 lb bird. That's two drops using an eye dropper. Mine are half yours, so I was right to go with one drop, ie. .05 ml

 

[Debbie292d]

I use a dosing syringe i got from my vet but any one without the needle would work.
The math throws me....always has so i read and read and read than by the end i am confused.

This is what i was using as directions
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/mites-lice-now-hen-growling.1242981/page-2#post-19965544

She is 5.5 lbs so i was going with .5 ml as a max dose.

Where you read that, she's talking about the 1% stuff.

For the 5% stuff, it's still higher than the site I gave you. Maybe split the difference.

"The minimum effective dose for Pour On Ivermectin is 0.5 mg/kg, which is 0.045 ml per pound. This is given topically only.
A five-pound hen would get 0.23 ml."