Round worms, right?

[Harmoni]

The best way to describe proglottids (tapeworm segments) is "pulsating rice".

I had seen moving ones in one poop last week. These weren't moving and much smaller than rice. They resemble tiny white eggs.

 

[Painted Calls]

I think I may just treat everyone then.

Probably a good idea. Odds are that if they live together and forage together, they all have them.

 

[Harmoni]

@Eggcessive I think I need to just treat everyone. I can't tell how many have segments, but I'm sure it's more than one.
Dosing question, I know it's 0.16ml for the full size birds, but I have 3 13 weekers in with them. Any idea how much to dose them with? Or I could just dose the 11 adults and wait and see if I'm still seeing segments?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

@Eggcessive I think I need to just treat everyone. I can't tell how many have segments, but I'm sure it's more than one.
Dosing question, I know it's 0.16ml for the full size birds, but I have 3 13 weekers in with them. Any idea how much to dose them with? Or I could just dose the 11 adults and wait and see if I'm still seeing segments?

Up to you whether to treat all or not.
I'm going to assume you have Equimax Paste. Dose is by weight, so if you wish to dose the 13wk olds, then weigh them and give them the correct dose.

Equimax horse paste has 140.3 mg/ml Praziquantel, 18.7 mg/ml ivermectin. Dose is ~0.033 ml per pound, or 0.16 ml per five pounds.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/treating-tapeworms-under-construction.1220309/

 

[Harmoni]

@Wyorp Rock correct, I have the equimax. Any advice on how to easily weigh a chicken?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Food scale.

 

[Harmoni]

FFS. Roundworms again too. Can I do the equimax and valbazen at the same time?

 

[Harmoni]

The middle/end of April we did 4 days of fenbendazole and then 10 days later a dose of valbazen. How can one of them still have this many worm?

 

[dawg53]

You live in Florida, same here. Our soil is warm moist/wet most of the year. That said, it's worm soup. Consider worming your birds monthly as I do. Your soil is contaminated with worm eggs and your birds will continue to get worms unless you worm monthly.
Continue to use Valbazen or Safeguard except in cases where tapeworms are involved.
Insects are the vector for tapeworms. Fortunately, not all insects will be tapeworm infected.

We eat the eggs after using Valbazen or Safeguard since they are Benzimidazoles. Benzimidazoles are poorly absorbed and mostly excreted. There will be minute residue in the eggs. If you believe that you or a family member might have a reaction to albendazole or fenbendazole, it would be best to toss the eggs in the garbage for 2 weeks after the last dosing.

Worming monthly will eventually end the roundworms lifecycle, to include rotating areas where they forage.
Worm each bird orally, that way you know they got properly wormed. Valbazen is my go to wormer. You only have to orally dose once, then repeat in 10-14 days. Wait one month after the second dosing, then repeat worming again.

 

[Harmoni]

You live in Florida, same here. Our soil is warm moist/wet most of the year. That said, it's worm soup. Consider worming your birds monthly as I do. Your soil is contaminated with worm eggs and your birds will continue to get worms unless you worm monthly.
Continue to use Valbazen or Safeguard except in cases where tapeworms are involved.
Insects are the vector for tapeworms. Fortunately, not all insects will be tapeworm infected.

We eat the eggs after using Valbazen or Safeguard since they are Benzimidazoles. Benzimidazoles are poorly absorbed and mostly excreted. There will be minute residue in the eggs. If you believe that you or a family member might have a reaction to albendazole or fenbendazole, it would be best to toss the eggs in the garbage for 2 weeks after the last dosing.

Worming monthly will eventually end the roundworms lifecycle, to include rotating areas where they forage.
Worm each bird orally, that way you know they got properly wormed. Valbazen is my go to wormer. You only have to orally dose once, then repeat in 10-14 days. Wait one month after the second dosing, then repeat worming again.

We ate the eggs last time. I wasn't very concerned, both drugs can be used in humans anyhow.
I did dose each bird in the beak. They have access to the entire backyard when I let them free range with supervision. Their runs are sand.
So we are dealing with tape too in an undetermined amount of birds so I was just going to treat them all. Can I do the valbazen and equimax at the same time?