I have a plan to combat roundworms in my flock of 40!

[Crs1]

2-125ml Safe Guard for Goats
1 ml on a piece of bread for 5 days
disposing of all eggs for 19 days

Heres to hoping

Thanks for all the info that’s on this site.
Took a little from here and a little from there
put them all together and came up with this

Thank you
Connie

 

[sourland]

How will you assure that all birds get dosed?

 

[Crs1]

We are going out early morning 6 am. Will have the bread pieces cut up, put the med on one piece at a time and hopefully the chicken will eat it right up. Then place them outside then on to the next til they are all done

 

[dawg53]

Some birds will eat the treated bread and some wont. Been there, done that. It'll be a long day for you.

 

[Crs1]

I’ll let you know

 

[Crs1]

@dawg53
Our first experience with deworming and we learned some things
We started to de worm by puttting the medicine on a piece of bread for The first chicken and that was the only one because she wouldn’t touch it so I could see disaster coming! So we started with your recommendation of pulling down the wattle and it was a breeze. it took us an hour to do all 40 chickens.
So my next question is can we switch over to Valbazen even tho we have already given this dose of Safe Guard? And if we can do wait 10 days before we give the Valbazen?
It would make life easier to only do it twice instead of 5 days in a row on 40 chickens. But if I must I must.

Thank you
Connie

 

[dawg53]

@dawg53
Our first experience with deworming and we learned some things
We started to de worm by puttting the medicine on a piece of bread for The first chicken and that was the only one because she wouldn’t touch it so I could see disaster coming! So we started with your recommendation of pulling down the wattle and it was a breeze. it took us an hour to do all 40 chickens.
So my next question is can we switch over to Valbazen even tho we have already given this dose of Safe Guard? And if we can do wait 10 days before we give the Valbazen?
It would make life easier to only do it twice instead of 5 days in a row on 40 chickens. But if I must I must.

Thank you
Connie

Now you know why I prefer Valbazen, only 2 dosings. However, I'm not taking anything away from Safeguard liquid goat wormer, it's an excellent wormer.
No problem switching from Safeguard to Valbazen. I've done it before and besides, both are benzimidazoles. Go ahead and use the Valbazen on day 10.

 

[Crs1]

Now you know why I prefer Valbazen, only 2 dosings. However, I'm not taking anything away from Safeguard liquid goat wormer, it's an excellent wormer.
No problem switching from Safeguard to Valbazen. I've done it before and besides, both are benzimidazoles. Go ahead and use the Valbazen on day 10.

yes I do see that now Hopefully I will listen better next time but probably not Live and learn and spend more money than you should
I’ll be taking back the second bottle of safeguard and exchange for valbazen tomorrow.
just a question Tho? If you know
I tried to find it on Amazon and couldn’t. I put in valbazen for goats. Am I missing something or does Amazon not carry it
anyway thank you for the advice
Connie

 

[Crs1]

Ok I put it in Amazon search as goat but red a post of yours that said valbazen cattle/sheep liquid and they still don’t carry it. So I’ll just go to where I bought the safegaurd

 

[dawg53]

Here's a couple places where you can order Valbazen 500ml bottle:
https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=30E07949-7B6A-11D5-A192-00B0D0204AE5
https://www.jefferspet.com/products/valbazen-broad-spectrum-dewormer