How to treat a chicken for worms

[casportpony]

I found this one and it’s a pretty good price! Can I use it for chickens? View attachment 2050809

No, get the Valbazen or Safeguard that @Eggcessive suggested.

 

[chickenmama109]

Ok thanks everyone

 

[hollilynn]

No, get the Valbazen or Safeguard that @Eggcessive suggested.

I just wormed my chickens yesterday with safeguard for horses. I placed a pea sized amount on piece of bread and all three received their own dose. They quickly ate it NO problem. Bought the tube on amazon, but your local farm supply store will carry it.

 

[RoosterML]

I just used Valbazen. Here is an easy way for me to do it. Remove the feed when you put the chickens to bed. Do not let them out in the morning. I grab about 3 slices of bread for 18 chickens. I cut a piece of bread about 1/2”x2” long. Take up .5ml of Valbazen into a syringe. Over the piece of bread slowly dispense the med onto the bread as you let it soak in. Once done give the dosed piece of bread to the nice hungry chicken. Grab that dosed chicken and give it a boot to the butt outside and grab the next one. Repeat and repeat. See easy peasy. Now you know every one got what they needed.
Note: .5ml for roughly 5 lbs bird.

 

[casportpony]

I just wormed my chickens yesterday with safeguard for horses. I placed a pea sized amount on piece of bread and all three received their own dose. They quickly ate it NO problem. Bought the tube on amazon, but your local farm supply store will carry it.

I hate to say this, but you under-dosed them. The pea size amount is equal to 0.25 to 0.3 ml of the liquid, which means you only gave 25-30 mg. This amount *might* be enough to treat large roundworms, but it will not treat cecal worms, capillary worms, or gizzard worms.