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Sorry for your loss Michelle, perhaps you can switch from from pellets to layer crumbles. They are easier to swallow, easier to digest for your chickens and then you can mix yogurt with the crumbles with no problems. Since you stated that that flubenvet takes too long to kill gapeworm and you cant get any ivermectin...try to get liquid fenbendazole or albendazole. These are the only treatments I know of that will immediately kill gapeworm besides ivermectin. You'll need to treat all your chickens sooner or later for it, once gapeworm gets established it's tough to get rid of and its lifecycle has to be broken or you're going to continue to have problems with it. Do you know a sheep farmer that you can swap eggs with to get some ivermectin? You'll need enough for 2 dosings for all your chickens...preferably ivermectin pour on....fenbendazole liquid and albendazole liquid will work too. Good luck. I forgot to mention that the liquid fenbendazole is normally used as a goat wormer and the albenzadole is a cattle/sheep wormer. If you are able to find them, let us know and we'll give you dosing instructions for your chickens. Same for the ivermectin pour on.
Sorry for your loss Michelle, perhaps you can switch from from pellets to layer crumbles. They are easier to swallow, easier to digest for your chickens and then you can mix yogurt with the crumbles with no problems. Since you stated that that flubenvet takes too long to kill gapeworm and you cant get any ivermectin...try to get liquid fenbendazole or albendazole. These are the only treatments I know of that will immediately kill gapeworm besides ivermectin. You'll need to treat all your chickens sooner or later for it, once gapeworm gets established it's tough to get rid of and its lifecycle has to be broken or you're going to continue to have problems with it. Do you know a sheep farmer that you can swap eggs with to get some ivermectin? You'll need enough for 2 dosings for all your chickens...preferably ivermectin pour on....fenbendazole liquid and albendazole liquid will work too. Good luck. I forgot to mention that the liquid fenbendazole is normally used as a goat wormer and the albenzadole is a cattle/sheep wormer. If you are able to find them, let us know and we'll give you dosing instructions for your chickens. Same for the ivermectin pour on.
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