Invermectin Oral Paste 1.87% - What is Correct for Gapeworm?

[dawg53]

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I agree with you 100%. I stopped using ivermectin a long time ago. Albendazole (valbazen) will take care of gapeworm as well as the ones you mentioned.

 

[Rutus]

Dawg53, is it your experience that Invermectin is not effective on gapeworm? Or just that the other products are more effective/consistent/whatever? It seemed in your earlier posts as though you were supportive of using it for gapeworm.

I don't know whether it is the Invermectin that has helped our bird, or the Sulmet, but at least she is up, eating and drinking well, laying, and looking a lot better. Last night she got a small piece of salmon leftover from dinner, and went to town on it like nobody's business. The RIR who is the head of the pecking order, and who is in the main coop (the sick bird is isolated next to the main area) could only watch, pace back and forth, and make unhappy chicken noises...

 

[yelim]

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I agree with you 100%. I stopped using ivermectin a long time ago. Albendazole (valbazen) will take care of gapeworm as well as the ones you mentioned.

 

[yelim]

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I agree with you 100%. I stopped using ivermectin a long time ago. Albendazole (valbazen) will take care of gapeworm as well as the ones you mentioned.

In detail for my 2 BB size brain, how do you give Albendazole (valbazen)? Can I spray chickens with it, or water them?
Exactly what package do I buy?
I can only access my birds while on the roost.

 

[Chook-A-Holic]

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I agree with you 100%. I stopped using ivermectin a long time ago. Albendazole (valbazen) will take care of gapeworm as well as the ones you mentioned.

In detail for my 2 BB size brain, how do you give Albendazole (valbazen)? Can I spray chickens with it, or water them?
Exactly what package do I buy?
I can only access my birds while on the roost.

1/2cc for large fowl, 1/4cc for bantams...gently squeezed into the mouth with a syringe. I tuck the bird under my right arm. With my left hand, I use my thumb and middle finger to grasp the bottom beak. With my index finger I push open the top beak to open their mouth. Then the wife inserts the tip of the syringe into their mouth and slowly administers the medication. Works great, and the birds don't get stressed. My roosters on the other hand just open their mouths when I bump the side of their beak with the syringe. I guess they know the routine...lol.

I've also noticed since switching to the Valbazen that I don't have to worm as often, anyone else noticed this?

Marty

 

[Rutus]

That Wikipidea entry is definitely useless at best, misleading at worst.

But our bird is doing great and so I guess that is something to be happy about.

She received her second dose today (orally - eating all treats with enthusiasm now) and so after the rest of her isolation she will go back with the other 3 hens. She has been pecking at the wire trying to get back in...

 

[Folly's place]

I use Ivermectin liquid, sold for cattle. It's labeled at 1 ml. per 100 lbs. body weight for most mammals, and thats how I dose it for chickens. The paste is much more difficult to manage in raelly small quantities, as it's 250 lbs. per 'click' in the tube! Mary

 

[unix_micki]

I have the paste and also 30 something birds....i like the treat idea but how in the world do i know which ones i did?

thx

 

[jennh]

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Are they in a coop, or a run? how about taking them out one at a time, and letting them loose when they have their "treat"? Just an idea

 

[lil bird lady1]

A "pea" size amount is what I recommend, as speckledhen mentioned 2BB's equal about a pea size amount. If you are positive that it's gapeworm, it will take several dosings to get rid of them. Dose 10 days apart. Gapes and tapes are tough to get rid of.

Whst dosage would you recommend for treating silkies with the pour on invermectin?