Cecal Poop or Worms?

[Kiki]

Thanks! I ordered Valbazen yesterday and will start to dose everyone as soon as it arrives. Should I dose 1/day? Also, how many days should I treat my flock?

The dose is .08 ml per each pound the bird weighs.
Dose them on day one and then again on day 7 to 10.
Pick a day in-between seven and ten days after the first dose.

 

[Kiki]

If you give them slightly more it won't hurt...it will hurt if you don't give them enough.

 

[Helicopter Mom]

The dose is .08 ml per each pound the bird weighs.
Dose them on day one and then again on day 7 to 10.
Pick a day in-between seven and ten days after the first dose.

Thanks to you and dawg53 for all the help!!

 

[Helicopter Mom]

If you give them slightly more it won't hurt...it will hurt if you don't give them enough.

Do I just give it only 1 time per day, twice per day...? I suspect 1 time per day but just want to be sure.

 

[Kiki]

Do I just give it only 1 time per day, twice per day...? I suspect 1 time per day but just want to be sure.

Give it ONCE, only one time on the first day and then one time on the 7th or 10th day.

Give it today(or when ever you get it) then in 7 days from now give it once more.

 

[Helicopter Mom]

Give it ONCE, only one time on the first day and then one time on the 7th or 10th day.

Give it today(or when ever you get it) then in 7 days from now give it once more.

Awesome sauce!!!

 

[Helicopter Mom]

@Helicopter Mom I saw your other post regarding ascarids. Ascarids can mean any type of roundworm (nematode) that a chicken can get. Generally, large roundworms (galli) are the most common.
Wazine specifically treats large roundworms and no other type of roundworm in poultry. Wazine acts as a large roundworm flush. As I mentioned, it's impossible to tell if your chickens drank enough of the wazine/water mixture to be effective, especially since you live in cold Wisconsin.
Safeguard or Valbazen will take care of large roundworms and many other types of nematodes in chickens. It would be best to go ahead and worm them now with one or the other products as Wyorp Rock mentioned. It's best to worm them in the early morning before they eat.
Each day after you worm your birds, provide them boiled plain white rice mixed with buttermilk in their feed to eat. Buttermilk is a better probiotic than yogurt and is easily absorbed. Yogurt tends to pass through them. This mixture should also clear up the diarrhea you're seeing.
Keep in mind that there's a good chance of reinfection especially if your birds are on the same soil all the time due to worm eggs contaminating the soil. Wet or damp soil doesnt help neither. A monthly worming schedule would be best as well as adding sand in the pen will help keep it dry.

For the buttermilk/rice mixture - how much rice and buttermilk should be given?

 

[dawg53]

I use white Minute rice. Boil one cup of water and add one cup of rice. Let it boil some then shut off the heat and let it finish cooking covered with lid, dont overcook or burn it.
After it's cooked, put some rice in a bowl and add the buttermilk, stir it up. The chilled buttermilk will cool the rice down so that it can be eaten by your rooster. Stick you finger in the mixture to make sure it's not too hot just in case. Make the mixture kind of liquidy with the buttermilk because the cooked rice will eventually absorb the buttermilk, then go ahead and give it to your rooster.
You should have plenty of the mixture left over. You can give it to the rest of your chickens if you wish. They usually scoff it up because the rice looks like maggots.
You can always cut back on the rice and water to make less rice, make sure it's equal amounts to be cooked. Always add more buttermilk making the mixture a bit liquidy.

 

[Jolene127]

Hi! This is actually my first post, not sure if it's in the right place. I gave my chickens Safeguard paste this morning. Should I do a second dose in 7-10 days or does this need to be given every day for 5 days? Little confused on the schedule. I really wanted to do something in the water but my local stores don't have it.

 

[Eggcessive]

Hi! This is actually my first post, not sure if it's in the right place. I gave my chickens Safeguard paste this morning. Should I do a second dose in 7-10 days or does this need to be given every day for 5 days? Little confused on the schedule. I really wanted to do something in the water but my local stores don't have it.

SafeGuard can be given once and again in 10 days to treat round worms and cecal worms. Treating for 5 consequtive days will treat more dangerous and rare worms, such as capillary and gapeworms. If you want to start a new thread of your own, click here and look for the blue box “post new thread,” and click on that:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures.10/