For large roundworms add one ounce (30 ml) per gallon. Provide medicated water for one day. Repeat in 10-14 days.
I use sulmet. Only because my vet gave it to me.
Sulmet in an antibiotic, not a wormer. It's used to treat some bacterial infections and some strains of coccidiosis, but it will not kill worms.
Now that you mentioned it, she gave this to us in conjunction with cydectin for our goats.
Thank you!! So just use it for one day, return to normal water, then use it for one day again? No probiotics or any other medication?
Actually when I was looking at the treating for worms, I read alot on BYC and its recommended to start with Wazine because it gets rid of the roundworms first and then followup with something like Ivermectin to kill all other worms. They said using Ivermectin first could overload your chickens systems with too many dead worms (I'm pretty sure that was how it was stated....or something close to that). Be sure to put Wazine in a glass container or at least not a metal container. Not sure about plastic. But you could use a glazed crock bowl, too. I put the Wazine and water in casserole dishes I bought at Goodwill and then put in pen with chickens and locked them up all day until next morning so they only had that water to drink. Some people talked about adding sugar or other things because their hens didn't like the taste. Someone, expert like, had a great post on dosage and some people just didn't seem to be getting the dosage and were using too much so the water was tasting extremely bitter and their hens weren't drinking. I didn't have that problem. They drank almost all the water. Followed up with Ivermectin (some on here like it and others like other brands). Make sure you do not eat the eggs for, I think, two weeks afterwards, although I went a month afterwards as I sell my eggs and wanted to be doubly sure the hens systems were fine. Also I think someone said not to feed the eggs to your dogs....others will chime in...
