Chicken with disheveled feathers and diarrhea

[casportpony]

Dust her with Fenbendazole?

So sorry, silly me, I should have written dust with poultry dust and deworm with Fenbendazole.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

If you're curious, dust her, put her in a covered box on white paper towels and come back in 30-40 minutes to check for bugs, I bet you'll find feather lice.

 

[Haunted55]

I would also put her and the rest on a good poultry vitamin. If you are going to do the Corid you shouldn't, but I'm not sure if coccidiosis is even a concern with her age. I'm thinking it's more of a mite or worm problem and using Safguard should help with that. Dusting her with a Sevin dust can't hurt either. Sometimes the DE just doesn't cut it. I use it myself in the dusting box and also a fine dusting under the shavings in their nesting boxes. If it gets wet, it's useless. We all want to keep our husbandry as natural as possible, but sometimes you just can't. It's better for the bird to try the wormer and something for external mites or lice, than to not.

 

[maryex]

I used to use DE, didn't work for me, if she were mine, I would dust her and deworm her with Fenbendazole 10%, liquid or paste. It's sold as Safegaurd or Panacur and it's in the horse and cattle section of most feedstores.

How much Safeguard for chickens?

 

[Michael Apple]

I'm assuming it's okay if all the hens have the corid.

Yes.

 

[Michael Apple]

I would also put her and the rest on a good poultry vitamin. If you are going to do the Corid you shouldn't, but I'm not sure if coccidiosis is even a concern with her age. I'm thinking it's more of a mite or worm problem and using Safguard should help with that. Dusting her with a Sevin dust can't hurt either. Sometimes the DE just doesn't cut it. I use it myself in the dusting box and also a fine dusting under the shavings in their nesting boxes. If it gets wet, it's useless. We all want to keep our husbandry as natural as possible, but sometimes you just can't. It's better for the bird to try the wormer and something for external mites or lice, than to not.

Coccidiosis is more often seen in younger birds but older ones are just as susceptible if they consume enough protozoa. I'd certainly worm after the coccidiosis treatment. Proper sprays such as Permectrin II / Ravap are more efficient and have a residual unlike dusts. Dusts need to be re-applied 10 days after the first dusting to kill any mite/lice eggs that may have hatched. I never use DE since I gave it a trial years ago, and never have mite/lice problems. Never compromised the health of my birds either. Safeguard is a decent wormer.

 

[Michael Apple]

How much Safeguard for chickens?

I'd do the Corid treatment first. Give a couple days with vitamins-electrolytes-probiotics in the water. Then you can worm. All this depends on how the bird responds to treatment.

Safeguard 10% liquid is .7 cc for a standard breed chicken. Use a 1 cc syringe without the needle and dose the bird orally. I prefer Valbazen (albendazole) since it kills tapes also. Dosage for Valbazen liquid is .5 cc for standards.

 

[casportpony]

How much Safeguard for chickens?

I dose all of mine by mouth based on their weight at 50mg per kilogram which is 0.5ml per 2.2 pounds of body weight. Repeat in ten days.

Liquid or paste, the amount you give is the same.

 

[casportpony]

I'd do the Corid treatment first. Give a couple days with vitamins-electrolytes-probiotics in the water. Then you can worm. All this depends on how the bird responds to treatment.

Safeguard 10% liquid is .7 cc for a standard breed chicken. Use a 1 cc syringe without the needle and dose the bird orally. I prefer Valbazen (albendazole) since it kills tapes also. Dosage for Valbazen liquid is .5 cc for standards.

I just read an abstract that claimed 100% removal of tapes in chickens when given 20mg/kg for 3 days. Will try to find it for all to read.

 

[casportpony]

Here it is:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6750887

Maybe I read it wrong or didn't understand it, which is very possible, lol.