Revolution Plus

[Feathers1951]

Is Revolution Plus safe to use on chickens? I've searched and searched (on this forum and elsewhere) and am not able to find the answer. My chickens' vet is who recommended using Revolution to treat scaly leg mites, but after I got it home I realized they sent me home with Revolution PLUS (with sarolaner, brand name Simparica). I'm not sure if it was a mistake or if this is what she meant to send. Since she can't legally prescribe it for my chickens, she instead prescribed it for my cat, so it's possible the assistant may have grabbed the wrong thing, thinking it's for my cat. I would just call the vet to confirm but I want to treat my chickens this weekend and the vet office is closed until Monday.

 

[Ponypoor]

Is Revolution Plus safe to use on chickens? I've searched and searched (on this forum and elsewhere) and am not able to find the answer. My chickens' vet is who recommended using Revolution to treat scaly leg mites, but after I got it home I realized they sent me home with Revolution PLUS (with sarolaner, brand name Simparica). I'm not sure if it was a mistake or if this is what she meant to send. Since she can't legally prescribe it for my chickens, she instead prescribed it for my cat, so it's possible the assistant may have grabbed the wrong thing, thinking it's for my cat. I would just call the vet to confirm but I want to treat my chickens this weekend and the vet office is closed until Monday.

I ended up using Revolution kitten/puppy strength and it worked great, he also had ascarids (roundworms - ugh - yep say them in his poop ), and it cleaned him up nicely, and fast. I didn’t have to stress the poor fella by handling him all the time with some other treatments.

I had him quarantined at that time as he was new here, so it was easy to give the Revolution and then clean his cage. The wonders of modern medicine!

 

[Farmer13]

I found this on the subject.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/ivermectin-use-for-scaly-leg-mites.606141/

 

[Ponypoor]

I found this on the subject.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/ivermectin-use-for-scaly-leg-mites.606141/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15890448/

Here is some info on the difference between Ivermectin and eprinomectin.

And here is a study done on poultry showing dosages (5mg/kg) so you need to make sure the strength of the product is taken into account as some are 10mg/ml and others 5mg/ml.

As you can see with the 10mg/ml strength you would only need a 1/2ml per kg or weight to get the 5mg/kg dose.

But the 5mg per ml you would need 1ml per kg. It’s extremely important to know the strength so you don’t overdose or under dose the creature.

https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-019-3599-0

EDIT:
eprinomectin Has shown a 100% reduction of red mites at day 10 in this study