- Jul 12, 2009
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I have a sick chicken. She's wheezing and looking ruffled. I read through the forum and decided to treat the flock with Worm Away, which states it is Praziquatel (20g/L) and Oxfendazole (20g/L). Worm Away is marketed as a cage bird dewormer (and is all I had on-hand at 11:00 last night), so I'm a little worried about my concentrations of medicine to water ratio. Anyway, I ended up squirting a good measure of it (about 1/8 cup) into a litre of water (the water looks like thin milk) and left it overnight for them as the only source of liquid. My birds all free-range and will be kept inside for the duration of the day today, while they drink it.
If I'm reading all this correctly, my questions are as follows:
We shouldn't eat nor incubate the resulting eggs for 28 days, correct?
If, after discarding any remaining water/medication tonight, can I or should I treat with Cocci Care (Amprolium) as well? Or, will this be too big a strain on the chickens' systems? As a note: I treated my whole flock because of the sick 1 year-old hen above. I assumed she is suffering from worms because of her symptoms. The sick and wheezy chicken is looking a little brighter this morning ... not as obviously ill as last night. However, I lost a chick who was lethargic and had bloody stool to what I thought was Cocci several days ago. Am I doing the right thing here? Should I be treating the entire flock for Cocci only? Or did the dead 8 week old chick actually succumb to worm load? Or should I treat the whole flock for both? If so, how do you go about that in terms of times between the different meds?
A little confused here, so I thought I'd come to the best place to help my flock. Oh, and although I appreciate that some others on here have all-natural herbal remedies, I'm not in the slightest convinced of their efficacy, beyond ACV in their water and DE all over the place.
If I'm reading all this correctly, my questions are as follows:
We shouldn't eat nor incubate the resulting eggs for 28 days, correct?
If, after discarding any remaining water/medication tonight, can I or should I treat with Cocci Care (Amprolium) as well? Or, will this be too big a strain on the chickens' systems? As a note: I treated my whole flock because of the sick 1 year-old hen above. I assumed she is suffering from worms because of her symptoms. The sick and wheezy chicken is looking a little brighter this morning ... not as obviously ill as last night. However, I lost a chick who was lethargic and had bloody stool to what I thought was Cocci several days ago. Am I doing the right thing here? Should I be treating the entire flock for Cocci only? Or did the dead 8 week old chick actually succumb to worm load? Or should I treat the whole flock for both? If so, how do you go about that in terms of times between the different meds?
A little confused here, so I thought I'd come to the best place to help my flock. Oh, and although I appreciate that some others on here have all-natural herbal remedies, I'm not in the slightest convinced of their efficacy, beyond ACV in their water and DE all over the place.
