Horse wormer for chickens? PLZ Help!!

[mysweetgypsy]

I knew I could count on BYC'ers to know this stuff

I bought the wormer and some vit E, (suggested in another post). My poor hen was completely on her haunches when I dosed her this afternoon, hopefully this does the trick. Worming a chicken is surprisingly difficult, there must be a trick to it? I gave everyone a pea sized amount, of both. I was going to give the sick hen another dose of Vit E when I get home, any danger in that? If she returns to normal I'll post what all I gave her. And as for withdrawl, no problem, my chickens aren't laying

Thanks again

 

[jlbfarm]

Is there any other treatments that are efficient that don't have such long withdrawal times and when you say, "start to finish" do you mean the first dose and then another 10 days later start counting 24 days at the first? Sorry, new to this and I used Piperazine and don't think it did a thing. Was there a withdrawal for that, I didn't see anything on the bottle?

 

[TexasToucan]

After the first dose, repeat in 10 days. After the second dose, you need to wait another 14 days until you should eat the eggs. That would be 10 days + 14 days = 24 days total to withhold the eggs.

 

[dawg53]

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Ditto!

 

[dawg53]

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Piperazine aka wazine...has a 14 day withdrawal for slaughter. If the chicken is good to eat after the 14th day, so are the eggs. Piperazine only gets rid of large roundworms. I dont use it anymore because it's mixed in water and you're depending on your chickens to drink it. If you have a sick chicken, the chicken wont drink it. There's no way of telling if they drank enough of it to be effective as well.
Also even if after worming, most likely you wont see worms excreted... they are paralyzed by the wormer and absorbed as protein in their digestive system.