Roundworms... please help!

[sherylreno]

You purchase wazine at the feed store and it has the instructions on the bottle or the feed store can help you as well. Please don't ever feel embarassed because your chickens get worms, the worms are in the ground and there is nothing you can do about it it's just another natural process raising your own chickens. The de-wormers only get rid of the adult worms but not the eggs, you should keep doing the de-wormer at regular times througout the year. You can eat the eggs too but make sure you crack them into a bowl or candle them to make sure there isn't any worms in them because the round worms do get into the eggs.

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[annecreates]

Thanks, Sheryl. I appreciate that reassurance...

 

[dawg53]

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Your welcome. You use any one of the wormers first, then reworm 10 days later. By reworming on the tenth day, you save 4 days egg withdrawal time. Grand total withdrawal time would be 24 days.
Dosage are as follows:
Safeguard liquid goat wormer is given orally, you can use a syringe without a needle or use an eyedropper.
Dosage:
Giants 1cc
Large fowl 3/4cc
Standard size 1/2cc
Smaller chickens 1/4cc
Safeguard equine paste is given orally. Dosage is a "pea" size amount given to each chicken...dosage is the same for all sizes of chickens.
Valbazen liquid cattle/sheep wormer is given orally. Dosage is 1/2cc for standard size and 1/4cc for smaller chickens.
You will have to look in the cattle, goat or horse sections in your feed store for these wormers. If they dont have them, you can order them from Jefferslivestock.com or call them. Since time is of the essence in this situation and if your feed store doesnt carry these wormers, I would go ahead with the wazine, and in the meantime order one of these wormers as a second wormer.

 

[annecreates]

I doubt I would have any luck administering anything orally... my chickens won't let me touch them! They take food from my hand, though, so I'm wondering if they would take the paste as a "treat." I wouldn't have any luck with my rooster, though. He's a perfect gentleman and gives all of his girls all the treats. Except the girls all have bare saddles... hmmm...

 

[dawg53]

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You can do this very easily no matter how much they try to squirm. Put a hen under your arm snugly, have your syringe pre-filled with the liquid wormer. With the arm that you're cradling the hen, take the same hand and use your thumb and finger to pull down on the hens wattles...her mouth will open. With the syringe in your other hand, squirt it in her mouth and let her swallow it on her own. Piece of cake. Try practicing it first without the syringe so you can get hang of it. If you're not confident about it, no problem. Then you could use the Safeguard equine paste. Here's the easy way to administer it:
Put a "pea" sized amount on a small piece of bread. Give a piece to each chicken, they will gobble it up. Be careful, I highly recommend that you seperate them and do them one by one...because they will steal each others piece of bread, then you will never know who got wormed and who didnt. As far as your rooster is concerned, you can seperate him as well, away from the hens. He will eat a piece of bread with the paste on it if given the chance. If not, pull his wattles down and his mouth will open and put the "pea" size amount inside his mouth, then let him go. He'll swallow it, then he'll wipe his beak lol.
I also recommend that you purchase chicken saddles/aprons for your hens to protect the sides and backs from your rooster. There are BYC members that sell them. You can check the "for sale" section if you wish.

 

[CristiC]

I gave my small chicken flock some wazine in their water for one day as directed. We also had to do a bumblefoot operation on a chickens foot, and that went well, and is healing. The other foot still needs to be done yet. Now a day after the wazine, I still see live worms in the poop. Did it work or not? I was thinking they should be dead right away. How long does it take for the worms coming out of the chicken (in their poop) to die? Thanks for any info. I haven't found any answer to this question.

 

[dawg53]

I gave my small chicken flock some wazine in their water for one day as directed. We also had to do a bumblefoot operation on a chickens foot, and that went well, and is healing. The other foot still needs to be done yet. Now a day after the wazine, I still see live worms in the poop. Did it work or not? I was thinking they should be dead right away. How long does it take for the worms coming out of the chicken (in their poop) to die? Thanks for any info. I haven't found any answer to this question.

It depends if your chickens drank the treated water or not, or if they drank enough of it to be effective.

 

[flowerchild59]

I have a link to my thread about my parasite treatment for my hens. Check out my signature line..

 

[sparrker]

Great info!!

 

[vonkettle]

I just butchered some meat chickens today and found out that 2 of the smallest ones had roundworm. I am going to go to my local store and get some safe guard cattle goat dewormer...however how much do you use per chicken.....not all of the had roundworm. When I was gutting the birds and pulled them out there were some worms in my sink. I was a bit disgusted. This is the first time it has happened to me. My birds do go in their coop more since the extreme cold. I will be treating very soon. Just want to know how to dose with that and what happens if I can only get the paste dewormer. I need to know measurements. Please and thank you