Ivomec Pour-on For Cattle 5 mg Formula

[For-The-Love-Of-Chickens]

I have read so much info on BYC today, my head is spinning.

OK, so now that I have purchased the product (I wanted Eprinex, but they do not carry it), and have my syringes at the ready, I am suddenly overcome with doubt. In an effort to not kill anybody (my family and friends who eat our eggs included) here are my questions.

I purchased the Ivomec Pour-on for Cattle. I was planning on giving the following doses:

Bantam= 1-2 drops
Small, Scrawny Hens= 3 drops
Nice, Plump Hens= 4 drops
Rooster=5 drops

Is this correct?
Repeat in two weeks?
No eggs for two weeks after application?

Now I read the side of the box and see that the withdrawal period for cattle is 48 days!?!?!? Is this the wrong stuff? I saved my receipt so I can return it if necessary.

Thanks in advance from a grossed out, yet concerned chicken mom.

 

[Lollipop]

That dosage is about right. You don`t have to repeat in 10 days. I don`t eat the eggs for a month. Treat them on the back base of the neck. I do it at night when they are roosting. Eliminates a lot of stress all around.

Are you treating internal or external parasites? If you are counting on the eggs, there are safer ways to do either.

Internal parasites: Use cayenne pepper. Mix it to look like rust in their feed. Chickens don`t have heat resceptors like other animals. Pepper in the front, worms run out the back. Repeat in 10 days to get the hatchlings.

External parasites: Use Adams Flea and Tick Dip for dogs. Mix as directed in a 5 gal. bucket. Dip the chicken in up to it`s neck. Swish it around and set it out to dry on a warm day. Smell lasts about a month, but you should be OK for 6 months or more.

Guess I`m trying to say, take the Ivomec back. I use it, but I`m not concerned about eggs. Good luck.........Pop

 

[For-The-Love-Of-Chickens]

We already do the cayenne pepper, and go through one whole container a week in their food. It is obviously not going to work on the worms we are seeing, or it would have done so already. We are seeing cecal worms, and not anything else.

I thought the ivermectin was the way to go in terms of safety and withdrawal time, but now am not so sure. I have read and read and read but am so confused about what to do with this problem. I don't want to worm them and then never be able to eat the eggs again, that is one of the reasons we are raising them!

 

[For-The-Love-Of-Chickens]

OK, so I have done some more reading and am going to use the drops at the dosage I described above. We will not reapply for at least 6 months. We will not eat any eggs for 6 weeks.

Here's hoping all goes well and no one kicks the bucket.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

FWIW, ivermectin is used on humans in 3rd world countries.

Yes, you need to retreat in about a week--10 days is probably a bit too long between times.

I place the ivermectin in the wingpit where there are no feathers to absorb it. My bottle says 1ml per 22lb; that translates to .05 ml per lb. If your bird weighs 5 lb, it should therefore have .23 ml. Not sure how that translates into drops. I do know that the size of a drop can vary considerably, so I prefer to use a true measure; however I do estimate bird weight.