Deworming a small amount of birds

[RoyalChick]

The lady at the store said the dose of horse wormer paste was about the size of a pea. If that helps.
They won't like it, but the good news is when they shake their head and fling it all over you face at least you won't have worms.

No. That is not enough.
@casportpony has a post on this.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-sized-blob-of-horse-paste-de-wormer.1141545/

 

[Granny23]

You can use horse paste fenbendazole but you can't add it to water.
You need to direct dose each bird straight to the mouth according to how much they weigh.
.23ml per pound.

Get the Safe-Guard horse paste.
Not the ivermectin one.

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So the 1.87% Ivermectin/ 14.03% praziquantel paste for horses won't work, isnt recommended, to worm chickens?? Im not seeing any worms,tape segments, in my girls but it's been a while since I wormed them.

 

[Kiki]

So the 1.87% Ivermectin/ 14.03% praziquantel paste for horses won't work, isnt recommended, to worm chickens?? Im not seeing any worms,tape segments, in my girls but it's been a while since I wormed them.

Yeah that horse paste would work too...for tapeworms.

 

[Granny23]

Yeah that horse paste would work too...for tapeworms.

Thanks. I thought so but saw a bunch of posts saying no ivermectin. Now to figure out the dose.

 

[Kiki]

Thanks. I thought so but saw a bunch of posts saying no ivermectin. Now to figure out the dose.

I wouldn't use ivermectin either.
I would use that particular product to treat tapeworms only.

For roundworms, the most common worm, I'd use the Safe-Guard.