Bad news with dewormer

[Painted Calls]

per bird

How much do they weigh?

 

[cherrynberry]

Did you give them Safeguard liquid goat dewormer?
Poultry DMV states 20-50 mg/Kg of fenbendazole to deworm a chicken.
The average LF chicken weighs about 5 pounds or 2.27 Kg. Safeguard liquid goat dewormer is 100 mg/ml. The acceptable dosage range is then 0.45 to 1.13 mls per bird.

Yep...thats exactly what I did

 

[cherrynberry]

How much do they weigh?

Not too sure....I have two comets two leghorns and 9 easter eggers...so they should range in on 4.5 and 5 pounds

 

[DobieLover]

Yep...thats exactly what I did

Then you did it right.
Repeat in 10 to 14 days.

 

[Painted Calls]

Not too sure....I have two comets two leghorns and 9 easter eggers...so they should range in on 4.5 and 5 pounds

If anything, you underdosed them. No worries! Repeat in 10 days.

 

[cherrynberry]

If anything, you underdosed them. No worries! Repeat in 10 days.

really!? Wow thanks! so what should I dose?

Then you did it right.
Repeat in 10 to 14 days.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Weigh a couple of birds and get an average weight. My birds at last worming weighed from 2.5 lbs (pullets) all the way to 7 lbs (head hen). A 7 lb bird's dosage is roughly 1.75 ml so if you have any larger birds they're underdosed if you only used 0.5 ml per bird.

 

[DouglasB]

.23ml per pound is what I read. If you gave 1/2 ml, .50, would that not be enough for just over 2 lbs. How much do your birds weigh?

 

[cherrynberry]

Thanks for all who replied and thanks to @black_cat especially for continuing my thread!

 

[cherrynberry]

.23ml per pound is what I read. If you gave 1/2 ml, .50, would that not be enough for just over 2 lbs. How much do your birds weigh?

I do not have a weighter with me