dosing for deworming chickens

[chickgma]

Hi! Anyone ever use fenbendazole pellets for chickens? I have a sick girl whose vent is swollen and very smelly. She has feathers missing too. I have given her a warm bath in that area and noticed worms. I bought these pellets as that's what tsc had. Dosing is for huge amounts of feed. I have 6 hens. I imagine they all have worms if one does. Also the sick one isn't eating or drinking but did poop. I have her in the house now. Any help with dosing or opinions about what else may be wrong would be appreciated!!!

 

[cherrynberry]

Pictures? I suspect the worms you are talking about are maggots.

 

[chickgma]

Pictures? I suspect the worms you are talking about are maggots.

I think they may be cecal worms. I need to know how to dose fenbendazole pellets for 6 chickens

Pictures? I suspect the worms you are talking about are maggots.

I think they may be cecal worms. I need to know how to dose fenbendazole pellets for 6 chickens . Here’s a picture of my poor girls backside

 

[cherrynberry]

I think they may be cecal worms. I need to know how to dose fenbendazole pellets for 6 chickens

I think they may be cecal worms. I need to know how to dose fenbendazole pellets for 6 chickens . Here’s a picture of my poor girls backside

Can you get a clearer picture? Maggots require a different treatment.

 

[chickgma]

Can you get a clearer picture? Maggots require a different treatment.

I don’t have any pictures of the worms. They’re white and about 1/2” long.

 

[chickgma]

I don’t have any pictures of the worms. They’re white and about 1/2” long.

If they are maggots what would I do?

 

[cherrynberry]

If they are maggots what would I do?

Soak the bird in water with some dish soap in it. Drown the maggots and remove as many as possible with tweezers. ALL have to go or else they will cause a lot of damage.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would agree that it is likely maggot infestation or flystrike. It happens when a vent is poopy or there is a wound in hot weather, and flies lay eggs. It can be deadly if the maggots enter the body, so soaking her in soapy warm water, Epsom salts, or a disinfectant such as chlorhexidene or Betadine would be needed. Repeat soaks several times a day, remove any maggots with tweezers if they don’t float on the water, until all stop hatching out. Here is a good article about flystrike:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/flystrike-in-backyard-chickens-causes/

 

[cherrynberry]

If they are maggots what would I do?

Example of maggots (babies), they like to infest on a wound and near the vent.

 

[cherrynberry]

Flystrike is deadly. I have had 2 hens that have gotten it. Here is a thread on one of the hens and her journey that happened recently: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/flystrike.1484274/