Actual Correct Dosage for Safeguard Dewormer for Chickens

[Eggcessive]

Any body have any idea why Valbazen is not available any more? Just checked TSC, Amazon and several other places on the web. All are saying not available or backorder from Manufacturer. My chickens need deworming but are molting. What else can I use to worm while they molt?

Here is another link for generic Valbazen (albendazole) in small quantities:
https://toltrazurilshop.com/products/albendazole-11-36-liquid-solution/

 

[chicken-tender]

Thanks Dawg53 and Eggcessive. I just ordered from Toltrazuril Shop.

 

[sherrybrown]

Thank you for all these charts! Do you know the dose per GALLON of drinking water for all different sized and different breeds of chicks/chickens? (I have too many chicks/chickens/roosters to individually weigh and dose every day for five days and then do it all again 10 days later.)

I never did see where anyone answered this question; I too have a flock of all different sizes. I have a bottle of the 10% goat liquid Fen. How much would I add per gallon of water and how many days to use the treated water?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I never did see where anyone answered this question; I too have a flock of all different sizes. I have a bottle of the 10% goat liquid Fen. How much would I add per gallon of water and how many days to use the treated water?

Hi @sherrybrown
Welcome To BYC

Likely the reason why you don't seen that question answered is because Safeguard Liquid Goat Dewormer (10%) is dosed by weight and given orally. The Goat formula/suspension, settles out of water (doesn't mix well).

If you feel you must deworm by water and if you are treating roundworms only and you have a flock with a total weight of 22lbs or greater, you can use Safeguard Aquasol©, dosing directions can be found on their website and/or the labeling on the bottle or box.

Hope this helps!

SafeGuard Liquid Goat Wormer is given orally for 5 consecutive days at a dosage of 0.23 ml per pound, which is about 1.25 ml orally for a 5 pound hen. It has to be shaken well before drawing up each dose, and it settles out in water, so it is not accurate to give it in the water. If a hen is not drinking well, you would not know if she has taken enough of the medication.

Safeguard Liquid Goat Dewormer 10% suspension or Safeguard Equine paste (10%) are dosed orally by weight.

Dosing is 0.23ml per pound of weight given orally once a day for 5 days in row.

This dose and duration will treat most worms that poultry can have except for Tapeworms which will require Praziquantel.

Safeguard 10% suspension will not mix well with water and will settle out.

Once of the easier ways to give medication orally, go out early in the morning, take a bird from the roost, give her the medication, set her down, then go to the next.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/


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[sherrybrown]

Thank you, I am going to order the aquasol. They eat and eat, cracked corn and wheat, kitchen scraps and 3-4 hours daily foraging. When WM marks french bread down to less than a dollar they get a loaf of bread too! Yet their breasts are thin and sharp. I even go out and crack pecans for them for the extra protein - you should see them run when they hear the first nut crack!

 

[nuthatched]

Thank you, I am going to order the aquasol. They eat and eat, cracked corn and wheat, kitchen scraps and 3-4 hours daily foraging. When WM marks french bread down to less than a dollar they get a loaf of bread too! Yet their breasts are thin and sharp.

Do you live where you can purchase real chicken feed? They desperately need protein and what they're currently eating will not benefit them.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Thank you, I am going to order the aquasol. They eat and eat, cracked corn and wheat, kitchen scraps and 3-4 hours daily foraging. When WM marks french bread down to less than a dollar they get a loaf of bread too! Yet their breasts are thin and sharp. I even go out and crack pecans for them for the extra protein - you should see them run when they hear the first nut crack!

Your welcome!

You may want to try to find a nutritionally balanced poultry feed.
An All Flock type feed would be a good choice for a mixed flock (various ages, males and females and in different stages of lay), just provide oyster shell free choice.
Alternatively, if all are at laying age, then a layer feed would be fine.

While corn and wheat are ingredients commonly found in poultry feed, just those 2 are likely not nutritionally dense enough to support good weight and health. It can be hard to make your own feed that is nutritionally complete and can also be more expensive once you try to find all the components, so most find that a purchased complete feed can also be more economical.

An average chicken consumes on average a 1/4lb of feed per day. Since they do forage too, likely your birds with eat a little less, so I'd start by putting out a small amount of feed in the morning, then again in the afternoon. Put out enough that they will consume within 20minutes or so.
If you worry about spillage/waste, then soak a small amount of feed for at least 30 minutes or so, let it absorb the water and feed it as a wet mash in some deeper bowls set on a block, this way feed stays relatively clean and the birds can't bill out a lot of feed from deep bowls.

Take up bowls/feed at night to help deter rodents.

If you wish to provide dry feed (pellets or crumbles) free choice, then use a feeder or two set up on a block, let them eat free will during the day and take it up at night.

I have 2 flocks (confined to different housing) and use feeders like below. I sit them in a feed pan, so even if they do bill at the feed, anything gets billed right into the catch pan. This feed setup I place on stands that I got from amazon, but they can certainly be set up on a block or something else to keep the feeders at about chest high on the bird (keeps birds out of the feed and feed clean).
I take these up at night and put them in a metal trash can, so I don't attract rodents - you don't want those, believe me, once you get one, you've got a problem and it's a nightmare to get rid of them.

Just some thoughts, hope this helps.