gape worm advice

[chickinncoop]

Hi- we are new members and we are proud to be a part of your "family".
We would like your suggestions about one of our pet hens. We just noticed about two days ago that she was opening
her beak and stretching her neck. (seemed like she was having some trouble breathing)
After much research on the internet we believe she has gape worms. Can't buy flubenvet in the US but found a product
called Panacur that has fenbendazole. Everything we have read says that fenbendazole kills gape worms, but we
don't know the proper dosage to give her and for how many days to give it to her.
Any help anyone can give us will be much appreciated!


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[Happy Chooks]

Welcome.

I'm moving your post to the emergencies section, so you will get more responses. You may want to edit your title to "Gapeworm advise" or something of that nature. I haven't personally dealt with it.

 

[constance]

I have not used it, but I ran across a couple of worming threads here last fall and I remember reading about Panacur in them.

Try these BYC threads that I bookmarked:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=213065&p=4

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=288246

I also just ran across this interesting page, the fenbendazole is about 2/3 of the way down the page:
http://msucares.com/poultry/diseases/solutions.html

Good luck!

 

[Carrie Lynn]

Please be sure to try the Q-tip thing before worming her.