Safeguard pellets how much to give

[casportpony]

So, .9ml for 5 days? Would I repeat that in 10 days too or would this be just for the 5 days and that's it?

Thank you for your help Kathy   she really looks like she is doing much better.

That's something I'm trying to find an answer on. I would definetly do at least one dose in 10 days. I'll let you know what I find.

-Kathy

 

[Mama Kay W]

Thank you

 

[casportpony]

Major error on my part! The Safeguard pellets are actually .05% Fenbendazole, not 5%! So sorry, wasn't wearing my glasses!

-Kathy

Hanging my head in shame... Another error! Pretty sure the pellets are 0.5% Fenbendazole, not 0.05%.

-Kathy

 

[yellowchicks]

Got a bag of Safeguard pellets by accident, didn't know there were different forms available. It has been 6 month so I don't have the receipt to return it. What is the dosage that I should give to my Leghorn chickens if they are around 4 lbs each?

 

[Kristasflock]

Hi there,

I too have the Safeguard pellets. I have four chickens how much should I feed them to deworm?

Thank you

 

[Golden Phoenix rooster]

Six years on, information relating to the OP's question has gotten somewhat better. For one, fenbendazole has been approved and labeled for A poultry usage (immature turkey poults).
Safe-guard's turkey dosage guidelines
The page includes a handy-dandy calculator by which to determine the correct amount of 0.5% fenben pellets to add to a 50-lb bag of feed as the sole ration:
2.56 oz = 2 oz, 9 drams = 72.5 grams

In other words, you can mix these pellets into chicken feed to deworm chickens-- you don't "have to" get the liquid or paste forms of safe-guard-- but to do so effectively you're going to have to get creative. The above recommendation for turkey poults is only a starting point. The backyard chicken fancier has additional considerations:

1) Will the treated chicken feed be your flock's sole ration? If they also wander freely into the woods and forage as mine do, they'll eat less feed, so to give them the same mg/kg dose per day you'll need to increase the proportion of medicated pellets mixed into their feed.

2) Safe-Guard's guideline is for rapidly growing turkey poults grown as meat birds on turkey farms. These birds are hatchlings in the spring that dress out at 20 pounds by October. We're talking FREAKY growth. So they're just ravenous all the time. They never dust-bathe or bask in the sun, they don't have time; all they do during those 4-5 months is eat their hearts out all day every day. At 12 weeks they're the size of big adult chickens and eat HALF THEIR BODY WEIGHT (5 pounds) in feed per day, ergo dose at 7.25 grams of pellets / 36 mg fenbendazole per day. Meaning a 10-lb turkey poult eats many times more feed per day than a 10-lb mature laying hen or rooster-- but you still want to give the hen / rooster 7.25 grams / 36 mg fenbendazole per day. So again you need to increase the proportion of medicated pellets in the feed, this time even more drastically. My adult chickens eat maybe 4 oz of feed per day per bird, at most, so fenbendazole needs to be 20 times more concentrated in the feed.

Based on the above, I medicate feed with 0.5% pellets by mixing two 1-lb packages of the pellets into 50 lbs of feed. I put half of this feed into their range feeder for the first treatment, then a week later they get the second half.

 

[casportpony]

@Golden Phoenix rooster, welcome to BYC!

 

[bakhbakhchicken123]

I'm struggling with dosage for the same product. I have two small silkies around 1 pound each and they really do not eat that much why is why the medication is pretty difficult to measure. Since it is a 6 day treatment, I was planning to do 10 grams of medication per 100 grams of feed. Please let me know your thoughts on this dosage.

 

[bakhbakhchicken123]

Six years on, information relating to the OP's question has gotten somewhat better. For one, fenbendazole has been approved and labeled for A poultry usage (immature turkey poults).
Safe-guard's turkey dosage guidelines
The page includes a handy-dandy calculator by which to determine the correct amount of 0.5% fenben pellets to add to a 50-lb bag of feed as the sole ration:
2.56 oz = 2 oz, 9 drams = 72.5 grams

In other words, you can mix these pellets into chicken feed to deworm chickens-- you don't "have to" get the liquid or paste forms of safe-guard-- but to do so effectively you're going to have to get creative. The above recommendation for turkey poults is only a starting point. The backyard chicken fancier has additional considerations:

1) Will the treated chicken feed be your flock's sole ration? If they also wander freely into the woods and forage as mine do, they'll eat less feed, so to give them the same mg/kg dose per day you'll need to increase the proportion of medicated pellets mixed into their feed.

2) Safe-Guard's guideline is for rapidly growing turkey poults grown as meat birds on turkey farms. These birds are hatchlings in the spring that dress out at 20 pounds by October. We're talking FREAKY growth. So they're just ravenous all the time. They never dust-bathe or bask in the sun, they don't have time; all they do during those 4-5 months is eat their hearts out all day every day. At 12 weeks they're the size of big adult chickens and eat HALF THEIR BODY WEIGHT (5 pounds) in feed per day, ergo dose at 7.25 grams of pellets / 36 mg fenbendazole per day. Meaning a 10-lb turkey poult eats many times more feed per day than a 10-lb mature laying hen or rooster-- but you still want to give the hen / rooster 7.25 grams / 36 mg fenbendazole per day. So again you need to increase the proportion of medicated pellets in the feed, this time even more drastically. My adult chickens eat maybe 4 oz of feed per day per bird, at most, so fenbendazole needs to be 20 times more concentrated in the feed.

Based on the above, I medicate feed with 0.5% pellets by mixing two 1-lb packages of the pellets into 50 lbs of feed. I put half of this feed into their range feeder for the first treatment, then a week later they get the second half.

I'm struggling with dosage for the same product. I have two small silkies around 1 pound each and they really do not eat that much why is why the medication is pretty difficult to measure. Since it is a 6 day treatment, I was planning to do 10 grams of medication per 100 grams of feed. Please let me know your thoughts on this dosage.

 

[PDXJULES]

I have a bag of the Pellets, and am not sure how much to use - for 6 lively 7 month old laying pullets. They eat more than 5 oz of feed a day, by far - but it is winter. Since it is safe for doses to be spread over 3-5 days, for a more effective parasite kill rate, i was thinking I'd divide it in half, then try to figure out if mixing into 5 equal parts might be a correct dose. Conversions from .5 ml of anything to grams or whatever then spread into a pound of pellets - frankly makes me dizzy.

Someone said it would translate to a few pellets per day...idk - but that would be easy to get each equally dosed in a tablespoon of yogurt or cooked oatmeal. I think someone else said more is needed. Dividing it all up and saving half would certainly be the pace to begin i think. I haven't seen any parasite evidence - so i may wait for the warmer wet season - and i wont be able to report on anything except if the Pullets seem changed in some behavioral way...or get ill...or if i see a change in their poo. ugh - a crap shoot, this is.