How soon to worm peachicks

[old biddy]

Luckily Safeguard is just that, safe. 1/4 should be both safe and effective at that age. Remember that one day will get most all worms except capillary and tapeworms. To get the caps it will take five days and always another round ten days later to get the hatching eggs. If you use Valbazen it will also get the tapeworms.

I am now in my 3rd day of treatment for the peachicks with Safeguard. When I treat them I also take that opportunity to weigh them as well. All the chicks seem to be gaining a tiny amount of weight each day except for one peachick - it is actually losing a tiny bit of weight each day and does not seem as lively as the others. I am worried about it. What can I do to help it to feel better or at least to gain some weight? Any ideas?

 

[KsKingBee]

I am now in my 3rd day of treatment for the peachicks with Safeguard. When I treat them I also take that opportunity to weigh them as well. All the chicks seem to be gaining a tiny amount of weight each day except for one peachick - it is actually losing a tiny bit of weight each day and does not seem as lively as the others. I am worried about it. What can I do to help it to feel better or at least to gain some weight? Any ideas?

Go to the pet store and get Kaytee Exact baby bird food and start tube feeding it. Ask if they have the equipment there for tube feeding or look at Casportpony tagline for a link to 'team tube feeding' or something similar for instructions on how to tube feed.

 

[old biddy]

Thanks, KS King Bee. I went to the pet store and got Kaytee Exact baby bird food and hand fed it for three days. I also made sure he got plenty of water so he would not dehydrate. He rallied the first day and actually put on a little bit of weight. But after that he declined. He had always been the smallest of the males and the least active. He simply failed to thrive. I lost him this afternoon. My granddaughter and I put flowers on his grave in the garden.

The other three chicks seem healthy and happy. I can only hope they thrive from here on. I believe they are one IB male, one IB female and one BS/IB male. They are 7 weeks old. Their surrogate chicken hen still sleeps with them at night, though I let her out during the day to be with the other chickens. The peachicks will soon be on their own. Thank you for your help and advice.

 

[KsKingBee]

Thanks, KS King Bee. I went to the pet store and got Kaytee Exact baby bird food and hand fed it for three days. I also made sure he got plenty of water so he would not dehydrate. He rallied the first day and actually put on a little bit of weight. But after that he declined. He had always been the smallest of the males and the least active. He simply failed to thrive. I lost him this afternoon. My granddaughter and I put flowers on his grave in the garden.

The other three chicks seem healthy and happy. I can only hope they thrive from here on. I believe they are one IB male, one IB female and one BS/IB male. They are 7 weeks old. Their surrogate chicken hen still sleeps with them at night, though I let her out during the day to be with the other chickens. The peachicks will soon be on their own. Thank you for your help and advice.

We can't always know what type of internal problems our birds have, it could be anything, cancer, tumors, deformities, etc. You did the best you could, that is all any of us can do.

 

[old biddy]

We can't always know what type of internal problems our birds have, it could be anything, cancer, tumors, deformities, etc. You did the best you could, that is all any of us can do.

Hi KSKingBee - as an update my 3 peachicks are 13 weeks old - I just completed a 5 day treatment of Safeguard for them (6 weeks since the last treatment.) If I read you correctly earlier you said to follow up with another treatment in 10 days to eliminate any hatching eggs. I failed to do that after their first 5 day treatment when they were six weeks old, but now that I have given them their 12 week old treatment, that is my plan. Correct? Seems like a lot of worming for such little guys but if that is the way it should go then so be it. Weather is still in the 90's here - very hot and humid.

 

[KsKingBee]

They are more likely to develop cocci than worms but getting them cleared up will help tremendously and will make the need for follow up treatments further apart.