All that happened in Walkertown Ontario was a farner top dressed his field w cattle manure, a heavy rain event and it contaminated one of 5 public utilities wells, without being treated at the plant before it reached homes.
Seriously it can cause kidney failure in the wink of an eye. The very people most at risk “are children” and older adults. Even healthy cattle shed the potentially deadly 0157:H7 e coli to each other daily in their feed throughs and waters. It’s a much more toxic waterborne pathogen than that...
Be on the lookout for e coli in your birds. I just had to be hospitalized again for the second the this year. I went septic in September and had to go on lactated rinfers, Cipro, Metradinazole IVs for 28 hours, almost dialysis.
I only have one turkey that seems to be susceptible to it. But the...
I and my turkey Mary have almost died from e coli. The gut bacteria is aggressive and causes kidney failure. The treatment for me is lactated ringers Cipro, Metradinazole and I came close to dialysis in September. It carried by wild birds, rodents and can be waterborne in groundwater wells like...
This question is for the original poster. We have used “everything else.” All I can find in the US is Prohibit. And some medications on Jedds, because somehow, racing pigeon industry gets around some US laws.
What brand of Levamisole and dosage did you use? It is the only thing that will kill adult gapeworm that is fairly common in adult turkeys. Although other wormers say they will, I have all, and labels say they will, in fact, not always effective.
I’m not using Safeguard right now, or Pyrantel, because she doesn’t have intestinal parasites. Done a lot more research. And you are correct, these are separate wormers. Where you can get some amazing products and they seem to get around regs is Jedds for racing pigeons that a turkey breeder...
Easily look up gapeworm on Wikipedia and any DVM reference. My Safeguard bottle I just pulled from the fridge says “Fenbendazole only” w no levamisole in it. I’ll google it also. This is a intestinal worms, not gape worms, although a few references says it will treat them. I have also run across...
Safeguard has 10 percent Levamisole which is the active ingredient in Flubenvet. Safeguard is for intestinal worms and will not kill adult gape worms, which is why I’m trying to find it. I’ve have Safeguard, have used IM Ivermectin also, but best course of defense is Levamisole for gape worm...