My Valbazen is at least 1.5 years old, and I found a (regular-sized) roundworm in a dropping. Some of my birds are molting.
With a small flock of 6 birds, I'm considering using Nemex-2. Then go back to Valbazen sold in the huge (wasteful for me) bottle, or Safeguard (still expires before being used up, but not as much is wasted) so I can rotate dewormers, next time I might need it. Nemex-2 is available locally and in a small bottle while the only other pyrantel pamoate available is in a paste for horses (also at a nice price, if I can actually use it). Alternatively, I could order a pp suspension (Columbia Laboratories), but I'd have to wait days for it to arrive.
However, I just checked the concentrations of these pp products and all 3 are vastly different (makes sense, given their intended species):
Nemex-2 contains 4.54 mg/ml of pp, the horse paste 171 mg/ml, and the suspension 50 mg/ml. I've only found dosing info for chickens for the suspension.
Does anyone know how to dose with Nemex-2? and whether the horse paste would be workable, and if so, how to dose a chicken?
Lastly, even though the Nemex-2 bottle states that it only needs one application (for canines, the intended species), should it be repeated in 10 days for chickens?
Thank you so much!
With a small flock of 6 birds, I'm considering using Nemex-2. Then go back to Valbazen sold in the huge (wasteful for me) bottle, or Safeguard (still expires before being used up, but not as much is wasted) so I can rotate dewormers, next time I might need it. Nemex-2 is available locally and in a small bottle while the only other pyrantel pamoate available is in a paste for horses (also at a nice price, if I can actually use it). Alternatively, I could order a pp suspension (Columbia Laboratories), but I'd have to wait days for it to arrive.
However, I just checked the concentrations of these pp products and all 3 are vastly different (makes sense, given their intended species):
Nemex-2 contains 4.54 mg/ml of pp, the horse paste 171 mg/ml, and the suspension 50 mg/ml. I've only found dosing info for chickens for the suspension.
Does anyone know how to dose with Nemex-2? and whether the horse paste would be workable, and if so, how to dose a chicken?
Lastly, even though the Nemex-2 bottle states that it only needs one application (for canines, the intended species), should it be repeated in 10 days for chickens?
Thank you so much!
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