Panacur Help

[BigECarter]

I just got back from the vet with my very sick pullet. After two all-clear fecal floats at my local vet, this vet found mites and strongyles. So I have a bottle of Panacur with instructions to give 0.5 ml a day for three days, then repeat in two weeks. It is in a bottle from the vet - looks to be a white liquid. No details on strength.

They never weighed the pullet, and I forgot to ask - the sick bird is 750 grams. The remainder of the flock are probably in that ballpark, no more than 1 kg. Is the weight to medication critical? Obviously not enough won't kill the worms. Will too much harm my birds? Should I dose everyone tonight or wait and call the vet tomorrow and get more info?

Thanks,
Erica

 

[cafarmgirl]

Some people dose very precisely by weight, many people dose by giving standard size birds the .5 ml and .25 for bantams, that is what I've done for years. It won't do any harm to dose tonight at that dose but if you feel uncomfortable doing so it also isn't going to hurt to wait and speak to your vet tomorrow.

Most common dewormers have a very high margin of safety, you'd have to dose at many times the recommended dosage to possibly see a reaction. Under dosing is more of a risk, not only does it not effectively kill off the parasites but it increases the possibility of parasite resistance in the ones that survive a low dose. Personally I would feel comfortable dosing at .5 ml per standard size bird.

 

[BigECarter]

Thanks! Given that everyone is at or under 2 lbs, I may go with the 0.25.

 

[dawg53]

The liquid panacur you have is 10% fenbendazole. It is a very safe wormer, 0.25 will do the job.