Eprinex Pour-on for Turkeys

[casportpony]

Since you're concerned about cecal worms, I'm assuming you know about histomoniasis. That said, the treatment recommended in the AAAP Avian Disease Manual is metronidazole (Flagyl) 30mg/kg by mouth for five days. It can be purchased without a prescription as Fish-Zole, but it is banned by the FDA for use in food animals.

 

[Michael Apple]

Since you're concerned about cecal worms, I'm assuming you know about histomoniasis. That said, the treatment recommended in the AAAP Avian Disease Manual is metronidazole (Flagyl) 30mg/kg by mouth for five days. It can be purchased without a prescription as Fish-Zole, but it is banned by the FDA for use in food animals.

Well, since Fish-Zole comes in 250mg tabs, how do you expect him to cut 30mg off a tab acurately? Lol. Perhaps he could trouble himself to buy a mg scale off Amazon's website.

 

[casportpony]

Well, since Fish-Zole comes in 250mg tabs, how do you expect him to cut 30mg off a tab acurately? Lol. Perhaps he could trouble himself to buy a mg scale off Amazon's website.

Blue Slate turkey hens weigh 14 pounds, so the dose would be about 190 mg.
Blue Slate turkey toms weigh 23 pounds, so the dose would be about 312 mg.

One can also but metronidazole in 100mg tablet without a prescription.
http://www.jedds.com/-strse-523/MEDITRICH-100-tablets-(Medpet)/Detail.bok

Lol, you laugh, but I did buy a gram scale for weighing powdered medication like Nystatin!

 

[casportpony]

One can also buy liquid metronidazole (50mg/ml), but that's a little harder to get without a prescription. Those interested should PM me.

 

[Michael Apple]

Blue Slate turkey hens weigh 14 pounds, so the dose would be about 190 mg.
Blue Slate turkey toms weigh 23 pounds, so the dose would be about 312 mg.

One can also but metronidazole in 100mg tablet without a prescription.
http://www.jedds.com/-strse-523/MEDITRICH-100-tablets-(Medpet)/Detail.bok

Lol, you laugh, but I did buy a gram scale for weighing powdered medication like Nystatin!

So you'd be sure to cut an accurate dose of 30 mg off a 100 mg tab? Jeez. You sure like to complicate things for no reason. hlk28, make it simple and effective and get the dang Valbazen from the feed store with a syringe. If any of your turks come up with other worms in the future it will knock them out and you'll save money from buying all these different wormers some folks are recommending.

 

[casportpony]

So you'd be sure to cut an accurate dose of 30 mg off a 100 mg tab? Jeez. You sure like to complicate things for no reason. hlk28, make it simple and effective and get the dang Valbazen from the feed store with a syringe. If any of your turks come up with other worms in the future it will knock them out and you'll save money from buying all these different wormers some folks are recommending.

Why would I have to cut a 100mg tablet for either weight? A 14 pound bird would get two and a 23 pound bird would get three, or is my math wrong?

FYI, they can still get histomoniasis while on a worming program with either albendazole or fenbendazole.

 

[casportpony]

FWIW, I only wish I had known how to properly worm and treat turkeys/peafowl for histomoniasis two years ago. Again, just trying to share what I've learned from two years of playing nursemaid, trips to the vets and necropsies.

 

[Michael Apple]

Why would I have to cut a 100mg tablet for either weight? A 14 pound bird would get two and a 23 pound bird would get three, or is my math wrong?

FYI, they can still get histomoniasis while on a worming program with either albendazole or fenbendazole.

Refer to your suggestion in post #21. Didn't sound right to me since I use 125 for canker on a Bantam. Give some recent examples of turkeys getting histomaniasis from worming with the proper dose of Albendazole. It doesn't happen. You remind of this trouble making hen I have that walks around squawking all the time just because she can. Lol. I know you mean well Casport, but all you are doing is making a simple process of worming a complicated matter, when it does not need to be.

 

[casportpony]

Refer to your suggestion in post #21. Didn't sound right to me since I use 125 for canker on a Bantam. Give some recent examples of turkeys getting histomaniasis from worming with the proper dose of Albendazole. It doesn't happen. You remind of this trouble making hen I have that walks around squawking all the time just because she can. Lol. I know you mean well Casport, but all you are doing is making a simple process of worming a complicated matter, when it does not need to be.

Treatment for canker or histomoniasis is 30mg/kg according to the AAAP Avian Disease Manual, but I know some pigeon people give their pigeons 250mg at a time for canker, so go figure...

As for histomoniasis outbreaks occurring after treatment with albendazole, I can't give you any examples, but I can with fenbendazole. Maybe that means that fenbendazole is less effective in treating cecal worms? Is it? All I can tell you is that I have had *many* outbreaks even though my chickens, peas and turkeys have been dewormed way more than most.

All I am trying to do is say that albendazole is not safe for all species of birds and animals, but fenbendazole is.

 

[hlk82]

Wow, thanks for all the suggestions. It seems moot at the moment though, as my husband let my turkeys out the other day, and they got spooked by something and most have taken off into the woods. I have been unable to catch them, and I am worried they are going to go to far for me to even find by tomorrow. So, if you have any tips at getting them back, they would be appreciated.