Equixmax for Tapeworm Dosage

[Cindy610]

Appreciate this thread, especially nice to have brand and dose.

Wondering, do y'all manage to hold their heads & squirt into beak, or put it on food or in water? What works best for this? Any tips appreciated.

Oh! Also wondering if Equimax handles other types of common worms besides tapeworms?

Thanks!

Withhold food the night before, wrap chicken in a towel. I make a little snug scarf around the neck and open the beak and squirt it in. Put food back down an hour or so later. Scoop all poop as it will have dead worm segments and eggs in it. Good luck!

 

[Cindy610]

Appreciate this thread, especially nice to have brand and dose.

Wondering, do y'all manage to hold their heads & squirt into beak, or put it on food or in water? What works best for this? Any tips appreciated.

Oh! Also wondering if Equimax handles other types of common worms besides tapeworms?

Thanks!

It would be interesting to know where the areas are that have this tapeworm problem. Sounds like it is quite widespread. I am in the mountain area of Colorado and someone 60 miles north of us also had this problem.

 

[BirdGuy2018]

Withhold food the night before, wrap chicken in a towel. I make a little snug scarf around the neck and open the beak and squirt it in. Put food back down an hour or so later. Scoop all poop as it will have dead worm segments and eggs in it. Good luck!

Thank you! On it.

 

[BirdGuy2018]

It would be interesting to know where the areas are that have this tapeworm problem. Sounds like it is quite widespread. I am in the mountain area of Colorado and someone 60 miles north of us also had this problem.

Can say I've gotten lax taking their food bowls in at night, and mice getting in it. Their poop carries tapeworms.

 

[BirdGuy2018]

Can say I've gotten lax taking their food bowls in at night, and mice getting in it. Their poop carries tapeworms.

I'm in Larimer County.

 

[Cindy610]

Can say I've gotten lax taking their food bowls in at night, and mice getting in it. Their poop carries tapeworms.

Those darn mice! My bird was running around with one dangling from her beak By the time I caught up with her she ate the head off... could certainly be a source.
I leave my food in an enclosed run at night and have not seen mice there but it makes sense that would attract them! They do throw the food all over the dirt also.

 

[a_harrison9]

Appreciate this thread, especially nice to have brand and dose.

Wondering, do y'all manage to hold their heads & squirt into beak, or put it on food or in water? What works best for this? Any tips appreciated.

Oh! Also wondering if Equimax handles other types of common worms besides tapeworms?

Thanks!

If you pull down on their wattle, that helped me get their mouth open. If you can just get it on their tongue by doing that, they usually swallow it. The brand I had was also apple flavored, so I think they liked it lol. Ivermectin is a really great dewormer along with the other ingredients of this product, so I would think it would be good for most worms. However, if it is coccidosis, I would definitely recommend Corid.

 

[a_harrison9]

It would be interesting to know where the areas are that have this tapeworm problem. Sounds like it is quite widespread. I am in the mountain area of Colorado and someone 60 miles north of us also had this problem.

I am from Mississippi. I read that chickens can get tapeworm from pecking on the ground and from bugs etc. So I am thinking everyone deals with it every now and then unfortunately. Sometimes I think people don’t realize they are dealing with it because the white specks in the poop are really hard to see moving. You have to look really close. I only knew what it was because I had seen someone post about it and then realized that was what I was dealing with! It’s so hard to see the specks moving until you look very closely!

 

[Eggcessive]

Eating fleas and mice or moles are a big reason cats and dogs get tapeworms. Chickens can get them that way as well, since chickens usually get them from an intermediate host. Eating the tapeworm eggs from a dropping, or an insect, earthworm can continue the lifecycle of tapeworms. A tapeworm segment or proglottid contains many tapeworm eggs inside. So, keeping droppings of a shedding chicken cleaned up, and removing any of the numerous possible intermediate hosts from the environment can help to stop reinfestation.

@BirdGuy2018 Ivermectin is another ingredient in Equimax. It has been thought to have lost some of its effectiveness of treating other common worms, due to its past use as at mite treatment. So, it may treat some other worms, but many here usually recommend Equimax for the praziquantel ingredient. If tapes are not a problem, then using Valbazen or SafeGuard paste or liquid is the best worm treatment.

 

[Cindy610]

I am from Mississippi. I read that chickens can get tapeworm from pecking on the ground and from bugs etc. So I am thinking everyone deals with it every now and then unfortunately. Sometimes I think people don’t realize they are dealing with it because the white specks in the poop are really hard to see moving. You have to look really close. I only knew what it was because I had seen someone post about it and then realized that was what I was dealing with! It’s so hard to see the specks moving until you look very closely!

Agree!