Please please help my chickens have worms!!! I don’t know what it is or what I should do!

[TropicalChickies]

Ok thanks I just bought those two. Can I eat there eggs while they’re on it? And how can treat my whole flock because I’m not sure who has it and who doesn’t or if they all have it

How many birds do you have? If you have say, fewer than 10, you can treat them individually. Use the Valbazen (generic Albendazol) because you only have to get one dose in them, then repeat in 10 days.

Just pluck the chicken off the roost in the evening and have the syringe ready filled to .5ml. I'll use my hand on the arm I have curled around the bird to pull down the waddle gently to crack the beak open and squirt the dewormer in the side of the beak with the other hand.

Put the bird back on the roost. Reload the syringe and repeat on the next bird. I'll usually do 5 or 6 before the others start getting squirmy and jumping off the roost.

If you have too many chickens to dose individually, I'm really not sure because dewormer solutions tend to settle in water and taste really bad, so if you try to mix with food or water, the chickens won't get enough to be effective. I have used Fenbendazol powder mixed up with a damp feed mash to treat all my birds at once, but you have to give it for 5 days.

It's up to you if you want to eat the eggs. The general warning is to toss out the eggs for a week post treatment. That's another reason why a one day Valbazen treatment (with follow up in 10 days is better). The five day treatment build up more medicine in their system by days 3 -5. There's probably hundreds of studies on exactly how much of the antiparasitic is found in the egg. There's no definite conclusion on how harmful this is for humans. Resistance to antiparasitic medicines is the main concern.

 

[TropicalChickies]

@Eggcessive the safe guard came but it’s a crumble how much do I give each chicken?

Can you post a picture of the label? Fenbendazol powder can come in different concentrations, like 10% or 22%. It's important to know the concentration to get the dose right.

How many chickens do you have?

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Can you post a picture of the label? Fenbendazol powder can come in different concentrations, like 10% or 22%. It's important to know the concentration to get the dose right.

How many chickens do you have?

I have 12 chickens I’ll post a picture in a few minutes

 

[L Home Farm]

Didn’t read replies after the VermX post but, it’s useless. I used it for ages, faithfully, then wondered why it wasn’t working. Looked at the ingredients. WHAT?? That’s not a wormer!! I use clove, oregano and wild orange essential oils now. (DoTerra) They have worked fantastic. 2 drops each in a 5L drinker. Also crushed garlic and ACV in the water help.

 

[Farmgirl283420]

How many birds do you have? If you have say, fewer than 10, you can treat them individually. Use the Valbazen (generic Albendazol) because you only have to get one dose in them, then repeat in 10 days.

Just pluck the chicken off the roost in the evening and have the syringe ready filled to .5ml. I'll use my hand on the arm I have curled around the bird to pull down the waddle gently to crack the beak open and squirt the dewormer in the side of the beak with the other hand.

Put the bird back on the roost. Reload the syringe and repeat on the next bird. I'll usually do 5 or 6 before the others start getting squirmy and jumping off the roost.

If you have too many chickens to dose individually, I'm really not sure because dewormer solutions tend to settle in water and taste really bad, so if you try to mix with food or water, the chickens won't get enough to be effective. I have used Fenbendazol powder mixed up with a damp feed mash to treat all my birds at once, but you have to give it for 5 days.

It's up to you if you want to eat the eggs. The general warning is to toss out the eggs for a week post treatment. That's another reason why a one day Valbazen treatment (with follow up in 10 days is better). The five day treatment build up more medicine in their system by days 3 -5. There's probably hundreds of studies on exactly how much of the antiparasitic is found in the egg. There's no definite conclusion on how harmful this is for humans. Resistance to antiparasitic medicines is the main concern.

Thanks is there another way to give it to them besides giving it with a syringe? I have two roosters out of my 12 birds and I really would like to not have to do that to them! Also say they didn’t have worms this wouldn’t hurt them or be bad for them would it?

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Didn’t read replies after the VermX post but, it’s useless. I used it for ages, faithfully, then wondered why it wasn’t working. Looked at the ingredients. WHAT?? That’s not a wormer!! I use clove, oregano and wild orange essential oils now. (DoTerra) They have worked fantastic. 2 drops each in a 5L drinker. Also crushed garlic and ACV in the water help.

Thanks! I will send that back

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Can you post a picture of the label? Fenbendazol powder can come in different concentrations, like 10% or 22%. It's important to know the concentration to get the dose right.

How many chickens do you have?

 

[Farmgirl283420]

And it looks like it is pellets

 

[TropicalChickies]

Thanks is there another way to give it to them besides giving it with a syringe? I have two roosters out of my 12 birds and I really would like to not have to do that to them! Also say they didn’t have worms this wouldn’t hurt them or be bad for them would it?

It won't hurt them if they don't have worms. It's fine. They will be fine.

 

[TropicalChickies]

Oh! This is great!!! It's premixed for chickens. Just feed it to them instead of their regular feed once a day for 5 days