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Ok. Wait and watch then. Thank youI would worm her with a legitimate worming med. DE doesn't do squat.
Any other contagious disease at this point is moot since she's already exposed the flock to whatever she may be carrying.
Okay thank you. I was switching shoes going into that particular area, but didn’t realize they shouldn’t breathe the same air...but obviously should have considering covid duh!When quarantining, for future reference, they need to be far enough away from your exsiting flock that they are not even breathing the same air, and you have to make sure you don't track things between the two areas on clothing or shoes or equipment. I would also worm her with either Safeguard or Valbazen.
I wasn’t able to find safeguard or valbazen near where I am located. All I could find for dewormer is VetRx and Backyard Chicken Zyfend A, I bought both. Can I use the dewormer while treating with corrid or should I wait to worm until after treatment?When quarantining, for future reference, they need to be far enough away from your exsiting flock that they are not even breathing the same air, and you have to make sure you don't track things between the two areas on clothing or shoes or equipment. I would also worm her with either Safeguard or Valbazen.
Got it! Thank you!!Neither of those is an effective, actual poultry dewormer. They won't do anything other than make you feel virtuous for not using a chemical. If there are worms, they will be laughing.
Safeguard is an all around effective wormer, but you need to walk over to the horse supplies in the feed store to find it. It will work on almost all kinds of worms. Or order it here. https://www.kvsupply.com/item/safe-guard-25g-fenbendazole-single-dose-wormer/SLT150554/
Yes, you can safely use a worming med at the same time you treat with Corid.
It looks like I will have to try to order from Amazon. Both TSC and Kvsupply won’t ship SafeGuard into California, of course. Last question would be how much to add to their water? I saw to administer a pea sized amount of the paste directly but nothing about how many ml of the liquid for the water. Thank you so much!!That would be correct. Safeguard comes in horse paste or liquid goat wormer, many tractor supply stores carry it, some feed stores, you can use either form. Valbazen you usually have to order online, it's for cattle, commonly used for chickens.
Thank you!! It looks like I will be using SafeGuard paste, it will be here Saturday, which gives me time to weigh my birds. The paste seems like an easier way to administer, doing the 5 day method with egg withdrawal, just to be safe and cover everything I can.Neither can be mixed in water, it will settle out. You need to dose each bird orally. Not as hard as it may sound. Safeguard dose is .23ml per pound of bird weight 5 days in a row for most common worms. If you are treating for roundworm only you can do 2 doses 10 days apart. Valbazen dose is .2ml per kg, or .2ml per 2.2 lbs of bird weight, two doses 10 days apart for most worms. That will take care of pretty much everything, except tape worms.
The only water mixable wormer is Safeguard Aquasol (you would have to order) and it's extremely expensive. There is a method for using Safeguard in feed (most do this to avoid egg withdrawl) the instructions are here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/safeguard-mash-zero-day-egg-withdrawal.1254653/
I've never done it this way. I much prefer to know that each bird got the correct dose. A sick bird, or not feeling 100% may not eat a normal amount and may not get dosed correctly.