Safeguard Liquid Goat Wormer Treatment Doses?

[Coturnix Quail]

I've recently bought Safeguard Liquid Goat Wormer, and I've been wondering how to administer it to my flock of 7. Everyone says something different, and I read somewhere that is wasn't water soluble? Some places say to mix it with their feed, but mostly I've seen orally, which seems like a bit of a hassle and risky for a chicken noob like me. I'd be too worried about accidentally causing them to aspirate. What is the best and easiest method, and what are the doses? I have 1 bantam and the rest are standard, they're all adults. I am also not completely 100% sure if they have worms, but I've lost a hen recently and it seemed like she had worms. They have reduced laying for a while now though, and their poop is mostly diarrhea. Thanks

 

[CindyinSD]

I give my animals Shaklee Basic H (around a half tsp/gallon) in their water, but that can be hard to find. I suspect some other non-toxic liquid soap might also work, but I haven't tried. I suggest you visit your feed store and purchase a wormer made for poultry.

To get advice here from people more knowledgeable than I (which would be most of them), I think you'd do better not to ask about goat meds in your headline. People see that and they think, "I don't know anything about goats" and don't even look. It probably IS possible to use your product for poultry and it's likely it's the same product in a different concentration, but converting that to an appropriate dose for poultry is beyond my skills.

 

[Isaac 0]

I've recently bought Safeguard Liquid Goat Wormer, and I've been wondering how to administer it to my flock of 7. Everyone says something different, and I read somewhere that is wasn't water soluble? Some places say to mix it with their feed, but mostly I've seen orally, which seems like a bit of a hassle and risky for a chicken noob like me. I'd be too worried about accidentally causing them to aspirate. What is the best and easiest method, and what are the doses? I have 1 bantam and the rest are standard, they're all adults. I am also not completely 100% sure if they have worms, but I've lost a hen recently and it seemed like she had worms. They have reduced laying for a while now though, and their poop is mostly diarrhea. Thanks

Safeguard Liquid Goat Dewormer is given Orally (PO) only. It's not water-soluble, so it shouldn't ever be given in water.

To treat most worms a chicken can get, dose at 0.23ml per pound for five straight days.

If you're unsure if they have worms or not, collect a few fresh poops, mix them together, and bring them to your vet and ask for a fecal float to be done.

 

[Isaac 0]

but mostly I've seen orally, which seems like a bit of a hassle and risky for a chicken noob like me. I'd be too worried about accidentally causing them to aspirate. What is the best and easiest method

Have you read this article?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

 

[Coturnix Quail]

Have you read this article?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

Yes, I have. I'm just a wimp, I don't want to do anything wrong, but I will do what I must to help them. That is the full treatment, correct? Do you do preventative worms or only when you're certain they have them?

 

[Isaac 0]

I don't want to do anything wrong, but I will do what I must to help them. That is the full treatment, correct? Do you do preventative worms or only when you're certain they have them?

It's not as hard as it might look. Before I let them out, I walk into the coop and grab each bird off the perch and administer, accordingly to the link. That is the full treatment, correct.

I perform lots of tests here ( total plasma protein (TP), gram stains, urinalysis, blood smears, etc) one of the tests I do on a routine basis are fecal floats which lets me, microscopically, get a good idea how many worms a bird has. So to answer you're question, I only worm unless there is an overabundance of eggs coming from the bird in question.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I give my animals Shaklee Basic H (around a half tsp/gallon) in their water, but that can be hard to find. I suspect some other non-toxic liquid soap might also work, but I haven't tried. I suggest you visit your feed store and purchase a wormer made for poultry.

You put this in your animal's drinking water everyday?
Do you drink it too?

 

[CindyinSD]

You put this in your animal's drinking water everyday?
Do you drink it too?

No, I don't give it as a prophylactic. Only if I see poopy butts; it seems to work on both the poultry and for my cows. I was adding just a drop to my hot water for my coffee, as a wetting agent to enhance flow through a pour-through filter. If it did anything, I couldn't tell, but I couldn't taste it, either.

 

[Coturnix Quail]

Safeguard Liquid Goat Dewormer is given Orally (PO) only. It's not water-soluble, so it shouldn't ever be given in water.

To treat most worms a chicken can get, dose at 0.23ml per pound for five straight days.

Do the syringes need to be washed between uses or should each chicken have their own syringe? Also, i read somewhere that safeguard is very harsh as a first time wormer, is this true?

 

[Isaac 0]

Do the syringes need to be washed between uses or should each chicken have their own syringe? Also, i read somewhere that safeguard is very harsh as a first time wormer, is this true?

No, you don't need to switch the syringes for each bird. Just switch out the syringe or clean it thoroughly after you're done dosing for the day to reduce the risk of bacterial contamination.

Could you site your source?