deworming for roundworm

[chicks45]

Hi all, found a roundworm in runny poop in our run the other night. Have been researching about deworming and have a quick question about safeguard aquasol. Is the daily does 1.0mg in a gallon of water daily for five days? How much water is 1.0mg diluted in? Anyone know?

 

[Lady of McCamley]

@casportpony

 

[Kiki]

Hi all, found a roundworm in runny poop in our run the other night. Have been researching about deworming and have a quick question about safeguard aquasol. Is the daily does 1.0mg in a gallon of water daily for five days? How much water is 1.0mg diluted in? Anyone know?

Have you already purchased the Aquasol? Are you aware of how much it costs if you have not already purchased it?
Also are you aware you can use the goat liquid Safe-Guard or the horse paste Safe-Guard?

 

[casportpony]

Hi all, found a roundworm in runny poop in our run the other night. Have been researching about deworming and have a quick question about safeguard aquasol. Is the daily does 1.0mg in a gallon of water daily for five days? How much water is 1.0mg diluted in? Anyone know?

Save your money and use Safeguard for goats.

Safeguard Mash - Zero Day Egg Withdrawal​

 

[casportpony]

The approved dose is 1 mg/kg for five days and that works out to ~0.023 ml per five pounds for five days.

If you don't want to hassle treating each bird you could try feeding it to them in a mash. If I were going to do that this is how I would do it.

1. Count number of birds to be treated.
2. Estimate the weight of each bird.
3. Calculate flock weight. For example, if you have 10 leghorns at ~4 pounds each and 10 RIR's at 6 pounds each, that's 100 pounds of birds.
4. Calculate the amount of Safeguard needed. In my example it's 100 (weight of flock) divide by 2.2 (this converts to kg) times 1 (the dose needed) divide by 100 (the amount of medication in one ml) 100 ÷ 2.2 x 1 ÷ 100 = 0.45 ml
5. Set aside the amount of pellets or crumbles they will eat in a day in a big container.
6. Mix the 0.45 ml of Safeguard in some amount of water, two cups maybe? Add the water/Safeguard mixture to the crumbles, stir a little, then add more water until the feed is nice and wet. Mix *very* well.
7. Repeat for five days and this should treat large roundworms and cecal worms, but will not treat capillary worms and this should not be done if your flock has capillary worms.

Note: If one has capillary worms in their flock a higher dose is needed and that higher dose will require egg withdrawal.

Please, always check my math, 'cause I do make lots of mistakes.

http://www.dosagehelp.com/dosage_by_weight.html