Administering worm medicine

[Klwright1122]

I know there is so much info out here on worming...almost too much to sift through.
My friend's chickens have round worms. I know she can treat with wazine...but I'd rather her use safe-guard 10% goat suspension or even valbezen. Because her chickens aren't used to being handled, can she soak a small chunk of bread in the medicine and feed each one individually first thing in the morning?
Pls remind me the dosage for a standard size chicken if given orally.
Thanks for any help.

 

[minihorse927]

I use valbazen and I use it at these dosages

Valbazen -one half cc/ml for standard size chickens, one quarter cc/ml for smaller chickens including silkies. You can use an oral syringe to squirt it down their throats individually or you can inject it into a small piece of bread and give each chicken a piece of bread....they gobble it up. - dump the eggs for 14 days.

 

[Klwright1122]

One time or over a period of 5 days?

 

[minihorse927]

I only dose 1 day

 

[MrsBrooke]

Dose once, repeat dose in five days.

MrsB

 

[casportpony]

One time or over a period of 5 days?

Safeguard dose is 0.23 ml per pound for five consecutive days if you want to treat all worms.

-Kathy

 

[Klwright1122]

She is concerned about the coop floor and the droppings. She has a smaller coop/run. I guess there is a tray under the roost that she can empty daily... But the floor in the run is Grass/dirt. Does she have to spray down the run, pick up poop and discard it... I mean, if she doesn't, will this whole thing happen again?
I guess that's why she would redose in a couple weeks?

 

[casportpony]

She is concerned about the coop floor and the droppings. She has a smaller coop/run. I guess there is a tray under the rose that she can empty daily... But the floor in the run is Grass/dirt. Does she have to spray down the run, pick up poop and discard it... I mean, if she doesn't, will this whole thing happen again?
I guess that's why she would redose in a couple weeks?

Not sure what can be done about the run, except keep it as clean and dry as possible. All one day doses are repeated in 10 days.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

One time or over a period of 5 days?

For *just* roundworms and cecal worms you can give 0.23 ml per pound 10% Safeguard liquid or paste orally once and repeat in 10 days.

-Kathy

 

[minihorse927]

Dose once, repeat dose in five days.

MrsB

this is what I meant when I dose one day, must repeat 5 to 10 days later.