Oral syringe(s) - Get them FREE

[kendra1178]

How do you know when you need to worm your chickens? Is this something I should be doing at regular intervals?

 

[kathyinmo]

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Kathy, Jim said the same thing about shooting the Valbazen on to a piece of bread. How do you give it to the chickens to be sure each one only gets one piece. If it's pushing it down each one's throat, I think that it'd be just as easy or easier to use an oral syringe.

I go inside the coop and close the bottom part of my door. I feed them one at a time. When one gets his/her piece of bread, I then put it outside. Just need 2 areas .... one area for the feeding of the bread, and one area for the ones that are done. It works for me, anyway. Also, as I pick up each one to put him out, I go ahead and powder him with lice/mite dust. I put it into a pantyhose leg (or a knee-high), and use it like a powder puff. Worming and dusting all done at the same time.

 

[KimberlyJ]

My husband asks me how I can read BYC for hours at a time. But how could I not when I learn amazing stuff like this! It's great that several people post their methods so I can try which ever one sounds "best" to me. BYcers are fabulous!!! THANK YOU!! One question that some one else already asked...how do I know if I need to worm my chickens? Mine just hatched the end of June, are from a hatchery and are my first chickens.

 

[sonew123]

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aspirating the syringe?

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Excellent job on getting those syringes. I am taking notes from your post and on my way out of the door this morning to see how many I can get. I have 150 chickens that I have to worm and your idea will help me tremendously. If it took you about half hour to do 26 chickens, then I guess I'm looking at about 3 hours to worm 150 chickens.

 

[Judy]

It's more convvenient to have one syringe per chicken, I grant you, but if you have a helper, you can do it with only a few. I wouldn't depend on just one; after several uses, they will come apart; they are designed only for one use, of course.

To get the air out, hold the syringe with the needle end up, pull the plunger back a little then flick the syringe, tap it with a fingernail, til the air floats to the top, then push it out carefully. If you are drawing out of an injectable bottle, push into the bottle about the same amount of air that you will be removing in medicine.

I bought one syringe and two needles from my feed store for 25 cents. However, they didn't carry 1 cc size. If I wanted 20 or 30 of the 1 cc size, I'd go to my vet and tell him what they were for, and insist on paying cost, which would probably be a very few bucks. (I was using ivermectin injectable so 3cc worked OK for me.)

 

[joebryant]

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Kathy, Jim said the same thing about shooting the Valbazen on to a piece of bread. How do you give it to the chickens to be sure each one only gets one piece. If it's pushing it down each one's throat, I think that it'd be just as easy or easier to use an oral syringe.

I go inside the coop and close the bottom part of my door. I feed them one at a time. When one gets his/her piece of bread, I then put it outside. Just need 2 areas .... one area for the feeding of the bread, and one area for the ones that are done. It works for me, anyway. Also, as I pick up each one to put him out, I go ahead and powder him with lice/mite dust. I put it into a pantyhose leg (or a knee-high), and use it like a powder puff. Worming and dusting all done at the same time.

Sounds like a good plan, but I could never do that because so many of my chickens look alike. They'd grab a piece of bread and take off running.

 

[joebryant]

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Excellent job on getting those syringes. I am taking notes from your post and on my way out of the door this morning to see how many I can get. I have 150 chickens that I have to worm and your idea will help me tremendously. If it took you about half hour to do 26 chickens, then I guess I'm looking at about 3 hours to worm 150 chickens.

OMG, glad it's you and not me.

 

[kathyinmo]

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I go inside the coop and close the bottom part of my door. I feed them one at a time. When one gets his/her piece of bread, I then put it outside. Just need 2 areas .... one area for the feeding of the bread, and one area for the ones that are done. It works for me, anyway. Also, as I pick up each one to put him out, I go ahead and powder him with lice/mite dust. I put it into a pantyhose leg (or a knee-high), and use it like a powder puff. Worming and dusting all done at the same time.

Sounds like a good plan, but I could never do that because so many of my chickens look alike. They'd grab a piece of bread and take off running.

You picked up each one of your chickens and used the syringe, correct? Do it the same way, pick up each chicken, but instead of the syringe you would give it a piece of bread.

Same thing, ya see? Does that make sense?

 

[joebryant]

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ddawn, the ORAL syringes do not have a needle, just a plastic piece like a 1/2-inch tube on the front.