TheBantamRooTwo
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- Apr 5, 2022
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Hello all!
I have a question that needs to be answered.
So I have a flock of 15 chickens at my house. Some of them (if not all of them) have tapeworms. We have treated them with SafeGuard Liquid Goat Dewormer and Diatomaceous Earth for the tapes and Corid for what we think is coccidiosis in a Jersey Giant hen.
This year I am graduating from high school (yay!) and going off to college. This is where my question is: What should I do about the tapeworms??
I have read that you can kill the tapeworms with products with praziquantel (like Equimax Horse Paste or Zimectrin Gold), but you also have to repeatedly and aggressively treat the area they live in because of the eggs and proglottids from the worms produce. I am going off to college this fall and I feel really bad about forcing my parents and younger brother to take care of the chickens because I am not there. I really feel that when I am gone, I won't be around enough to help with this, and if the treatment doesn't work, we will be back to square one.
I have thought about this a lot, and I think that what I am going to do is still regularly treat the chickens for the tapes and other worms in general, (this might sound cruel...) but not completely/effectively treat and kill the worms because of how aggressive the treatment is and how much it could potentially cost.
Can someone please advise and give me peace of mind??
I have a question that needs to be answered.
So I have a flock of 15 chickens at my house. Some of them (if not all of them) have tapeworms. We have treated them with SafeGuard Liquid Goat Dewormer and Diatomaceous Earth for the tapes and Corid for what we think is coccidiosis in a Jersey Giant hen.
This year I am graduating from high school (yay!) and going off to college. This is where my question is: What should I do about the tapeworms??
I have read that you can kill the tapeworms with products with praziquantel (like Equimax Horse Paste or Zimectrin Gold), but you also have to repeatedly and aggressively treat the area they live in because of the eggs and proglottids from the worms produce. I am going off to college this fall and I feel really bad about forcing my parents and younger brother to take care of the chickens because I am not there. I really feel that when I am gone, I won't be around enough to help with this, and if the treatment doesn't work, we will be back to square one.
I have thought about this a lot, and I think that what I am going to do is still regularly treat the chickens for the tapes and other worms in general, (this might sound cruel...) but not completely/effectively treat and kill the worms because of how aggressive the treatment is and how much it could potentially cost.
Can someone please advise and give me peace of mind??