Bad news with dewormer

[casportpony]

I dont see a good way to give a worm medicine that cant be put in water though. Horse you inject into their mouth and dog you put in a good snack... how do you feed it to a chicken?

This will explain how:
Safely Administering Oral Medications to All Poultry and Waterfowl

 

[casportpony]

Is there a reason people tend to use goat safeguard over horse or dog?

Yes, cost per mg of medication.

• Safeguard for Goats = 12,500 mg fenbendazole and costs ~$30 = 0.0024 cents per mg
• Safeguard paste for Horse = 2500 mg fenbendazole and costs ~$12 = 0.0048 cents per mg
• Safeguard Large Dog - 666 mg fenbendazole and costs ~11 = 0.0165 cents per mg

 

[ackie]

Yes, cost per mg of medication.
Safeguard for Goats = 12,500 mg fenbendazole and costs ~$30
Safeguard paste for Horse = 2500 mg fenbendazole and costs ~$12
Safeguard Large Dog - 666 mg fenbendazole and costs ~11

Sounds like I'm never buying dog safeguard again hahaha

thanks for all the info

 

[DobieLover]

She under-dosed.

Not according to this post.

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

I just did a weight check on my flock. Weights for 3 EEs, 1 WLH, a WLH mix, a PBR, RIR... these birds weights averaged 5 pounds.

 

[Painted Calls]

Not according to this post.

I just did a weight check on my flock. Weights for 3 EEs, 1 WLH, a WLH mix, a PBR, RIR... these birds weights averaged 5 pounds.

OP gave .5 per bird though.

 

[casportpony]

Not according to this post.

If the bird weighed 2 pounds she did not under-dose.

I just did a weight check on my flock. Weights for 3 EEs, 1 WLH, a WLH mix, a PBR, RIR... these birds weights averaged 5 pounds.

Five pounds gets:
5 /2.2 x 50 /100 = 1.14 ml once for roundworms repeat in 10 days. For Capillary and gapes, give 1.14 ml for 5 days.

 

[DobieLover]

OP gave .5 per bird though.

Yes. The minimum dose recommended was 20 mg/Kg. That equates to 0.45 mls per bird at a 5 pound average weight.
Roundworms will drop at 1 mg/Kg dose given 5 consecutive days.

 

[casportpony]

The minimum dose recommended was 20 mg/Kg

My books and my vets say 50 mg/kg.

 

[DobieLover]

My books and my vets say 50 mg/kg.
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I've effectively dewormed at a lower dose.
http://www.poultrydvm.com/drugs/fenbendazole

 

[casportpony]

I've effectively dewormed at a lower dose.
http://www.poultrydvm.com/drugs/fenbendazole

That page is full of misinformation!