Safeguard Mash - Zero Day Egg Withdrawal

[casportpony]

I wouldn't know how to know what they have if anything without doing a fecal float.
I think I'll do the five day mash and watch their poo s to see if it changes.
Do I still have to re treat them ten days later?

I'm not sure if you have to do it again. I usually don't

 

[jthornton]

How did it go for you? Did it seem to work for you?

Yes it seemed to work for me and I had round worms.

JT

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I'm not sure if you have to do it again. I usually don't

So after reading that. Capillary worms come from earth worms I decided to give the full dose individually. .and just toss the eggs. Today was day 3 and boy howdy were they ticked off. One of my females has taken the role of protector and insisted on flogging me every time I picked one up! So. . do you think 3 days is enough or should I do 5? Thinking of doing the full dose but putting it in a mash for the last two days if you think I need to do the 5 days. they were really hard to deal with today.

 

[Mosey2003]

What I do when I want to dose individually is go out just before they get up and grab them one at a time off the roost, dose, and toss that one outside. I usually do the rooster first, as he gets upset when I make the hens squawk. I'd do your problem hen first.

 

[casportpony]

So after reading that. Capillary worms come from earth worms I decided to give the full dose individually. .and just toss the eggs. Today was day 3 and boy howdy were they ticked off. One of my females has taken the role of protector and insisted on flogging me every time I picked one up! So. . do you think 3 days is enough or should I do 5? Thinking of doing the full dose but putting it in a mash for the last two days if you think I need to do the 5 days. they were really hard to deal with today.

My books say five days and there have been a couple of posts from people that have said they were advised by their vets to give for five days, so I would give for five orally or in the mash.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

What I do when I want to dose individually is go out just before they get up and grab them one at a time off the roost, dose, and toss that one outside. I usually do the rooster first, as he gets upset when I make the hens squawk. I'd do your problem hen first.

Mine are ducks lol. But yes it was evident after today I need to snag the little flogger first and put her outside the pen while I dose the others
I wish someone had been here to get it on camera
It was quite hilarious to have a duck trying to flog me in defense of her friends she even goosed me once. But it did make it stressful for the others.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

There has got to be an easier way for people with large flocks. I can't imagine people with tons of birds doing this every 6 months to a year. I'm guessing a lot of people must have to be doing the mash, or I wonder if there is something that can be mixed in feed to prevent worms? (And NOT D E) I have tons of earth worms where I live so this will probably be an on going issue for me forever. They pull up earth worms daily and even steal them from the robins

 

[casportpony]

There are a couple of water-soluble wormers, but they aren't cheap. One is Safeguard AquaSol, the other is Wormout Gel.

 

[Mosey2003]

I'm so sad that I finally found all these great deworming options on pigeon sites (thanks to casportpony) and my stupid rooster is molting, so can't use any

 

[casportpony]

I'm so sad that I finally found all these great deworming options on pigeon sites (thanks to casportpony) and my stupid rooster is molting, so can't use any

Yeah, they say not to use any of the benzimidazoles during molt.