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  1. casportpony

    too thin?

    Here is an avian body score picture that I found: Gonna guess that between 2-3 is ideal, but can't say for sure... 1 is definitely way too thin and 4 is too fat. -Kathy Picture source: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.michvma.org/resource/resmgr/MVC_Proceedings_2015/heatley_03.pdf
  2. casportpony

    too thin?

    The problem I have seen with that is that many people on BYC have had negative fecals and they think that a negative fecal means that their birds *don't* have worms or coccidia, when all it means is nothing was found in that sample. -Kathy
  3. casportpony

    too thin?

    A peafowl buddy of mine does routine fecals, and the way he does it makes sense to me... He gets lots of fresh poop samples from as many birds as possible, places the poops in a baggie, stirs it really well, then takes it to the vet. His vet does in house fecal, so he gets the results while he...
  4. casportpony

    too thin?

    Always an option, but what should one do if one has skinny ducks are the fecals are negative? Situations like this a vet may decide to worm them, but I doubt they will advise doing that without first seeing the duck. - Kathy
  5. casportpony

    too thin?

    It would be best to consult with a vet, but if that's not an option you could use Safeguard. The most effective Safeguard dose is 0.23ml per pound orally for five consecutive days. That dose will treat roundworms, cecal worms, capillary worms and gapeworms. -Kathy
  6. casportpony

    too thin?

    They can get worms from eating slugs, so I would get a fecal test done or worm all of them. -Kathy
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