Chicken with Worms?

[Haley Clark]

Ok I will look for fish zole in the fish section at Walmart, but my local TSC doesn't carry safeguard for chickens

 

[casportpony]

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[Michael Apple]

Ok I will look for fish zole in the fish section at Walmart, but my local TSC doesn't carry safeguard for chickens

It's best to find a local business that specializes in fish/aquarium supplies and see if they have Fish Zole in stock. It would be better to not waste time ordering it online. You want the 250 mg tabs. If you buy the 500 mg you'll have to split them. Like i said, since the symptoms seem to coincide with Blackhead, give one tab per day for 5 days.

 

[casportpony]

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[casportpony]

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[Haley Clark]

Ok we don't have a fish store where I live but I will get some safeguard and try that I also gave her a electrolyte packet this morning. As if right now the only physical symptoms are weakness and yellow poo

 

[Haley Clark]

Can you get metronidazole anywhere else other than in fish zole also what is the dosage for 1 hen of safegaurd for goats??

 

[dawg53]

Can you get metronidazole anywhere else other than in fish zole also what is the dosage for 1 hen of safegaurd for goats??

You can get metronidazole or flagyl from a vet. You need five 250mg tablets of one or the other to dose your hen once a day for the 5 days of treatment. As far as the safeguard goes, most feed stores carry the Safeguard equine paste. To keep it very simple; give your hen a "pea" sized amount of the paste orally. You can put it on a small piece of bread and give it to her to eat. Keep her away from your other birds or they will try to steal it away from her and eat it. Repeat giving her another "pea" size dose in 10 days.
Actually, I recommend that you worm all your birds. If your infected bird DOES have cecal worms, odds are that your others will have them as well, not to mention other types worms. The safeguard paste will get them.

 

[Michael Apple]

From The AAAP Avian Disease Manual - 6th Edition

"TREATMENT

There is currently no approved medication for treatment of histomoniasis in food animals. Small groups of birds not being raised for consumption can be effectively treated individually with metronidazole at a dose of 30 mg/kg orally SID for 5 days. Antihelmentic treatment may help suppress the population of cecal worms."​

How come an avian vet prescribed 60mg Flagyl for a very small Bantam then a few years ago? A hen 4x larger than that particular 17 oz bantam should accurately receive one 250 mg tab. An old rancher I knew as a kid always had success with that dosage for his LF Rocks if Blackhead were to arise.

 

[casportpony]

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