piperazine dosage

[veronica2368]

hello all,
i am treating my hens for worms right now and i just wormed them yesterday with piperazine...i oz per gallon of water...for them to drink until it is gone. i have down that and did some looking on the internet....a lot of sources say to repeat teeatment in 7-10 days....is that what you normally do? also how muych water with piperaine in it should i give to a bird that is ill and doesnt want to drink? i am making her drink with a syringe but i am not sure how much i should make her drink to get the proper dosage .
i plan on cleaning out the run and coop this weekend after all the worning is done also.
thanks for the help.
veronica

 

[dlhunicorn]

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/poulsci/tech_manuals/internal_parasites.pdf

"Chemical agents used for roundworms include:
Piperazine
In feed 0.2-0.4%
In water 0.1-0.2% (best if all medicated water consumed within a few
hours)
As a single treatment of 50-100mg/bird (chicken)
As a single treatment of 100 mg/bird in turkeys < 12 weeks of age
As a single treatment of 100-400mg/bird in turkeys >12 weeks of age"

 

[veronica2368]

diana..i have syringes that has ml on them. they are rather small..i do have one bigger......thank you for that info but it confuses me a little...could you let me know what that dosage meant in terms of something i can measure? i put an ounce of the piperazine in a gallon of water so far. that water is pretty much gone. i gave red at least 5 cc....i porobably gave her4 or 5 syringes full yesterday...the syringe contains 3 cc total.
veronica

 

[Pine Grove]

The bottle directions says 1oz per gallon, and to let them drink for 1 day. One hen will average 16 oz of water per day. So she would need to drink at least 16 oz's in a days time for it to be effective, So far she's consuming no where near that.
She needs to consume 3.5 ml of piperazine, I would mix this with 1 oz of water to allow ample gut coverage..But giving wormer to an already sick bird could do more harm than the actual worms.