Prob doing this wrong - newbie

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.

Thank you! So should I just basically disregard the one treatement I gave 3 days ago, and start over tomorrow? Giving them 5 consecutive days in a row starting tomorrow, and then one additional day 10 days later?

Just dose 5 consecutive days in a row and then you are done.

 

[Callender Girl]

Welcome to BYC and the confusing world of medicating chickens! I am fortunate to have a vet who has and likes chickens; even though she has changed practices and now is further away.

She confirmed roundworms in one of my hens yesterday, and I understand your confusion. Two of my girls have a more severe case, and she gave me liquid Strongid T that I am to give once and then again two weeks later.

For the remainder of the flock, she gave me a dry version of fenbenzadole to sprinkle on their food once a day every day for five days. Then, repeat in two weeks. Based on the size of the birds in the various coops, she measured out exactly how much medicine to put in each one.

Dr. M suggested it would be better to do everyone orally. I suggested that with two dozen chickens, eight ducks and two geese, that might be better, but it would certainly be impossible. A few of my chickens would be extremely unwilling, all of the ducks would be more than unwilling, and one goose would likely beat me to a pulp with her massive wings.

IF it weren't 2 degrees outside, she also said putting the dewormer in the water would work. However, I'm already going outside three times a day to replace frozen waterers, so we crossed that off the list since most of the medicine would be thrown out with the ice.

When I asked about egg withdrawal, she said the U.S. government said 30 days. I asked what would happen if I ate an egg during the time the birds were being medicated; she said fenbenzadole is used to treat worms in humans and let me draw my own conclusion.

Good luck with getting rid of the worms!

 

[Iluveggers]

Welcome to our BYC flock! Sorry to hear about your birds but I’m glad you’ve been given good advice already!

 

[Callender Girl]

I edited my previous post when I realized that the liquid dewormer was Strongid T. Sorry for the original misinformation.

 

[swampfox440]

Hi, Welcome to BYC! good luck with worming, and nice to meet you.

 

[Kenneth Zweerink]

Welcome to BackYard Chickens. And a Big Hello from Eastern Nebraska. The Best of Luck with your Flock.

 

[KRack]

Welcome to BYC and the confusing world of medicating chickens! I am fortunate to have a vet who has and likes chickens; even though she has changed practices and now is further away.

She confirmed roundworms in one of my hens yesterday, and I understand your confusion. Two of my girls have a more severe case, and she gave me liquid Strongid T that I am to give once and then again two weeks later.

For the remainder of the flock, she gave me a dry version of fenbenzadole to sprinkle on their food once a day every day for five days. Then, repeat in two weeks. Based on the size of the birds in the various coops, she measured out exactly how much medicine to put in each one.

Dr. M suggested it would be better to do everyone orally. I suggested that with two dozen chickens, eight ducks and two geese, that might be better, but it would certainly be impossible. A few of my chickens would be extremely unwilling, all of the ducks would be more than unwilling, and one goose would likely beat me to a pulp with her massive wings.

IF it weren't 2 degrees outside, she also said putting the dewormer in the water would work. However, I'm already going outside three times a day to replace frozen waterers, so we crossed that off the list since most of the medicine would be thrown out with the ice.

When I asked about egg withdrawal, she said the U.S. government said 30 days. I asked what would happen if I ate an egg during the time the birds were being medicated; she said fenbenzadole is used to treat worms in humans and let me draw my own conclusion.

Good luck with getting rid of the worms!

This is interesting about the egg withdrawal period! So you won't withdrawal at all? That sounds ideal to me, I was wondering if the withdrawal was more of a precaution in case someone was allergic to fenbendazole or something.

I only got the stool of one chicken tested. I'm thinking of just deworming them all for 3-5 days. I only have 7 chickens and I used a dropper the first time, on each of them individually. If I had as many birds as you, I'd probably need to do something different.

 

[Grammy60]

Hello and welcome to BYC So happy you have joined us.

Best of luck with your flock.

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

 

[sourland]

Hello, and welcome to BYC.