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    Tapeworm blockage?

    Just thought I'd let anyone know who is interested that Sooky is still with us and fully mobile again. She still has an overly firm crop and doesn't eat a huge amount but she does eat, scratches about, gets the best spot on the perch, dust bathes, keeps up with the others and comes up to me...
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    Tapeworm blockage?

    I did give Sooky another dose of the wormer avitrol plus (praziquantel) the night before last which followed the dose I gave all of them the week before. I'll think about giving her a third dose in another week. Will that be too late to redose the others do you think? Anyway, I gave Sooky a dose...
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    Tapeworm blockage?

    Gee when they say "sleep on it" it really brings results when the American backyard chicken community all wake up and get on line. Thankyou for all of your advice. I can see merit in all that's been suggested - even the crop surgery which had gone through my head as I massaged Sooky's...
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    Tapeworm blockage?

    Thanks. Yes, I think that they are environmentally more vulnerable which is why I've accepted tape wrom treatment as a regular thing I do - I thought sucesssfully until now. My chooks happily roam a large area, feeding on all sorts of lush herbs and they favour drinking out of the reservoirs of...
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    Tapeworm blockage?

    Thankyou. I'll be sure to more strictly adhere to the 24 hr fast in future and repeat doasages but I can't currently look past the fact that Sooky is now unable to stand up at all and has a very hard crop. I've kept chooks for years and not felt quite so helpless and responsible as with this...
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    Tapeworm blockage?

    Much as I'd prefer an organic alternative, I started using avitrol plus bird wormer tablets successfully(?) - on recommendation from breeder- to treat my flock of 7 hens for tapeworm. I now do this every 3-4 months unless I see segments of worms in poo then I do it straight away. That happened...
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    The Sussex thread!

    big girls fluffy bums fleshy faces... bit creepy really
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