Dewormers - What Do You Use?

[GreyhoundGuy]

Help me out. What do you use for your hens? We have 5 hens, and 1 of them has worms. (I've only seen one in its poop, but I know I have to treat them all.)

What do you use? How often do you give it? How long do you throw the eggs after giving them the treatment? NOTE: I was planning on using Wazine17 until I saw that it wasn't for use in hens that lay eggs for human consumption. So now I'm back on the lookout.

Thanks in advance.

-Joel

 

[Kiki]

Can you get some Safeguard...it's sold as a goat wormer.
Wazine only treats roundworm...Safeguard treats more types of worms.

Dose each bird straight to the mouth on day one.
Then nothing for about two weeks...on day 10 or 14 dose each bird once more, straight to the mouth.
Safeguard dose is .23ml per pound of bird.
Don't under dose them it will do no good.

Trash eggs for about two weeks after the second dose.

 

[Kiki]

btw...I think all wormers are used off label for chickens.

 

[Folly's place]

There's nothing effective that's approved for laying hens. You need to decide if your birds are having problems having roundworms, or whatever, and if it's worth treating them. Ivermectin or fenbendazole are effective, although the Ivermectin is easier to use. Then decide on an egg withdrawal period, realizing that there isn't an approved time. Mary

 

[Callafarm]

I have been using Cayenne Pepper in my chicken feed. Read that it will not harm the chicken but will kill worms within. Have not had any problem.

 

[Kiki]

I have been using Cayenne Pepper in my chicken feed. Read that it will not harm the chicken but will kill worms within. Have not had any problem.

have you have your chickens poop tested for worms loads to see if it really does work?
99% of the time you won't actually see a worm unless they are severely infested with them.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

I use Valbazen. Killed more types of worms then others I found. I don't let other people eat the eggs for 14 days after each dose...a total of 24 days. Dose is 10 days apart.

I personally ate the eggs. Other family who knew the chickens had been wormed also ate eggs. I figured that the small amount they got, even if the entire dose went to a single egg, I'd have to eat a dozen eggs in a sitting to even give myself the amount I would need to be wormed.

Like I said, total personal choice!

 

[GreyhoundGuy]

Thanks to all for the info. Our plan is to get SafeGuard and follow dosage listed by @KikisGirls.

@FlyingNunFarm, I think we'd be fine eating the eggs after dosing, but we have a 2 year old daughter to consider, too. For that reason, we'll discard eggs until 2 weeks after last dose.

Again, thanks to all for the helpful info!!

-Joel

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Thanks to all for the info. Our plan is to get SafeGuard and follow dosage listed by @KikisGirls.

@FlyingNunFarm, I think we'd be fine eating the eggs after dosing, but we have a 2 year old daughter to consider, too. For that reason, we'll discard eggs until 2 weeks after last dose.

Again, thanks to all for the helpful info!!

-Joel

Most definitely. I like to tell people that I have not keeled over eating them. I think there is no withdrawal time listed because no one bothers to test it.

 

[Folly's place]

That's likely not true. Many many products (dare I say chemicals?) are fat soluble and will be deposited in the yolks, which the hen has stored for her lifetime. That's why few things are actually approved for use in laying hens. We will find ourselves using unapproved products at times in our home flocks, and just deal with it.
A commercial facility wouldn't be using these products, but the all-in, all-out commercial model of management will also prevent or greatly decrease the need for wormers. Their birds never get outside and are very unlikely to be affected.
Funding for research for products useful for backyard flocks is very limited too. If we want answers that we want to hear, we need to combine to fund projects. Mary