How Long After Ivermectin Can You Eat Eggs Again??

[hiddenflock]

Hi,

We have a pullet we think might be wormy, so to we're going to get some injectable Ivermectin today to bust her new little vermiculture hobby. The others will be getting it, too. (No vermiculture for anybody!!!) How long after quitting Ivermectin can you use eggs again?

 

[roostersandhens]

This is complicated. I treat my girls (and boys) with ivermectin. So I gave them all the injection, then I looked n the package. It said "Don't give to layers" Why it does not say. It does say if you give it to cows or any large livestock you can eat them or use their milk after about 2 - 3 weeks. I am geussing they haven't tested the eggs with ivermectin, so they just don't know. I am planning to start eating my eggs after 3 weeks, maybe 4. I think it's fine to eat them, just wait a little while. I wouldn't eat them again if your alergic to ivermectin, just in case. I sell may eggs I will probably keep selling them in 3 weeks, my costomers say they don't care so.. So in conclusion you could wait 3 or 4 weeks, that's what I'm doing. I hope your hens lose the worms!
Good Luck!

 

[dawg53]

Ivermectin injectable is useless as a wormer in chickens. I recommend safeguard or valbazen.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0450.1989.tb00635.x/abstract

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

You'd be better off with a pour-on dewormer like Eprinex or Ivermec. They will take care of external as well as internal parasites.

Eprinex is very expensive, the there is no withholding time. Ivermec is much cheaper, but has a two week withholding.

 

[hiddenflock]

Yikes!!!! Thanks for the warning, Dawg53....we got some Wazine at the feed store for them yesterday, the kind you pour in the water, but we'll just be using it as a preventive measure, because when we let them outside yesterday she wasn't acting funky at all...we're pretty sure it was only the heat or "first egg" behavior because yesterday we found a teeny tiny little candleflame-shaped egg in the basket along with the browns (she's an easter egger!!) But for future reference, how well does Wazine water-pour version work.....Thanks for the help!

 

[dawg53]

You'd be better off with a pour-on dewormer like Eprinex or Ivermec. They will take care of external as well as internal parasites.

Eprinex is very expensive, the there is no withholding time. Ivermec is much cheaper, but has a two week withholding.

Unfortunately ivermectin pour on and eprinex have lost their effectiveness as wormers in chickens due to their overuse as miteacides in chickens. Both these products will not kill capillary worms, cecal worms, and resistance is showing in large roundworms. Neither will kill tapeworms. They will kill mites though.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Unfortunately ivermectin pour on and eprinex have lost their effectiveness as wormers in chickens due to their overuse as miteacides in chickens. Both these products will not kill capillary worms, cecal worms, and resistance is showing in large roundworms. Neither will kill tapeworms. They will kill mites though.

Wouldn't that depend on the area where you are living and your endemic population of parasites? We have a very well-respected avian vet near us, and these are the products he recommends, rotating them to prevent resistance.

Since neither Ivomec or Eprinex are labeled to kill capillary worms, cecal worms, or tapeworms, I don't think it's a fault of the product that it doesn't control them.

 

[DHutchins]

I have an update on this old post. I brought my hen into the vet for treatment of mites and lice and she gave her a shot of Ivermectin and said to withhold eggs for 4 weeks. I hope this helps someone in the future for use of this drug and egg withhold period.

 

[Christine04]

I have an update on this old post. I brought my hen into the vet for treatment of mites and lice and she gave her a shot of Ivermectin and said to withhold eggs for 4 weeks. I hope this helps someone in the future for use of this drug and egg withhold period.

Thank you, this is the information I was looking for, would you k ow what % Ivermectin to use? I'm in the UK and it's proving abit difficult finding ivermectin and Amazon isn't very helpful in information of it. Thank you

 

[Christine04]

Thank you, this is the information I was looking for, would you k ow what % Ivermectin to use? I'm in the UK and it's proving abit difficult finding ivermectin and Amazon isn't very helpful in information of it. Thank you

Thought it might be useful to add I'm using it for mite treatment.