How in the heck do you figure out the dosage for wormer?

[CochinFancy]

I bought safeguard pellets. Poultry DVM says chickens should have 50mg for 5 days. Well that works out to be .002 of an ounce for each chicken. I have 20 chickens and did the math. That doesn’t make any sense, how can you have 4% of an ounce for all 20 chickens?

How in the heck does anyone feed this?!

 

[MysteryChicken]

@casportpony

 

[nuthatched]

You use the liquid stuff, the pellets are finicky

 

[CochinFancy]

You use the liquid stuff, the pellets are finicky

I wanted to use the pellets because there is no way I can catch and liquid worm all 20 of them. There’s no way to use these at all?

 

[nuthatched]

I wanted to use the pellets because there is no way I can catch and liquid worm all 20 of them. There’s no way to use these at all?

Can you take them off the roosts at night?
I'm not sure how to use the pellets.

 

[Plaid Dad]

I wanted to use the pellets because there is no way I can catch and liquid worm all 20 of them. There’s no way to use these at all?

I use the liquid safeguard stuff too but I just add it to their water. No way I'm chasing down all of my chickens and shoving something into their mouths.

 

[dawg53]

I wanted to use the pellets because there is no way I can catch and liquid worm all 20 of them. There’s no way to use these at all?

Please read posts #2 & #4 in this link, it'll help you out on how to worm your birds.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/worms-in-chicken-poop.1575508/#post-26765905

 

[CochinFancy]

Thanks everybody. I ended up just using the liquid goat wormer and mixing it in my feed

 

[casportpony]

Thanks everybody. I ended up just using the liquid goat wormer and mixing it in my feed

That's what I would have done. How much did you mix in the feed?

I bought safeguard pellets. Poultry DVM says chickens should have 50mg for 5 days. Well that works out to be .002 of an ounce for each chicken. I have 20 chickens and did the math. That doesn’t make any sense, how can you have 4% of an ounce for all 20 chickens?

How in the heck does anyone feed this?!

How much one uses would depend on what worms they want to treat. The pellets are 0.5% fenbendazole, which means that there are 5 mg of fenbendazole in one gram of the pellets.

One gram of pellets = 0.05ml of the liquid Safeguard.

One pound of this contains 2270 mg of fenbendazole. Using the liquid, that's 22.7 ml.

 

[CochinFancy]

That's what I would have done. How much did you mix in the feed?


How much one uses would depend on what worms they want to treat. The pellets are 0.5% fenbendazole, which means that there are 5 mg of fenbendazole in one gram of the pellets.

One gram of pellets = 0.05ml of the liquid Safeguard.

One pound of this contains 2270 mg of fenbendazole. Using the liquid, that's 22.7 ml.
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I gave about .5 of a ML and split it between all of my birds. I believe I need to do it again a few days later as some of the birds did not allow the others to eat very much