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[casportpony]

@Birdrain92

Just like we do for horses, worming should be done by weight. The amount I use works out to about 23 mg per pound (50 mg/kg). For cecal worms and roundworms I give once, then again in ten days. For capillary worms and gapeworms I give five days in a row.

A mature peacock weighs more than a peahen, so he should have more wormer, just like a mature horse gets more than a foal, right?

Pictures below are from the Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual - Fifth Edition
Roundworm




Cecal worm




Capillary worms (ignore the ivermectin dose, ivermectin no longer works in poultry)




Gapeworm




Tapeworm - Five days of safeguard might treat some species of tapes. If not, praziquantel will for sure.





-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

don't quote me on this but I believe with safeguard it should be more like 3 ml per day for safeguard...let me see if I can find mrs Kathy's cheat sheet she made on one forum

add.....I found it...
safegaurd dose
This is what I give mine for either one day or five:
OEGB - 0.25ml
Cochin Bantam - 0.5ml
Six month old peacock - 1.25ml
RIR hen - 1.5ml
Jersey Giant hen - 2.25ml
Peahen - 2ml
Peacock - 3ml
Huge turkey - 7.5ml
Heritage turkey - 3.5ml
Muscovy drake - 3.25ml
Muscovy hen - 1.6ml
Big Gander - 7ml

Those numbers work out to 0.23 ml per pound.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Just in case some people don't know this:

• Fenbendazole = Safeguard or Panacur
• cc = ml

-Kathy

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Thank you Kathy, great information

 

[Birdrain92]

@Birdrain92

Just like we do for horses, worming should be done by weight. The amount I use works out to about 23 mg per pound (50 mg/kg). For cecal worms and roundworms I give once, then again in ten days. For capillary worms and gapeworms I give five days in a row.

A mature peacock weighs more than a peahen, so he should have more wormer, just like a mature horse gets more than a foal, right?

Pictures below are from the Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual - Fifth Edition
Roundworm




Cecal worm




Capillary worms (ignore the ivermectin dose, ivermectin no longer works in poultry)




Gapeworm




Tapeworm - Five days of safeguard might treat some species of tapes. If not, praziquantel will for sure.





-Kathy

I thought we were talking about Thora and Marshmallow, they're both hens. Please tell me the "he" is just a typo or you were talking about Colbolt. My veterinarian told me 1cc of horse wormer paste for an entire week skip two weeks then dose for a week again for my young ones.

 

[Dany12]

"I want to drink .... how do I do?"

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I meant "he"... I was just trying to make a point that a bird that weighs 14 pounds (large peacock) should have twice as much wormer as one that weighs 7 pounds (small peahen). Does that make sense?

If your vet told you to give 1ml (cc) to any sized bird I think I would call him and talk about it. Here's the deal... most vets assume that all of us are stupid and that we are incapable of doing a little math, so I think that's why many give instructions like you were given.

If your vet told you to give 1ml (cc) of Safeguard paste for seven days, that will probably be fine for the hens, but I think anything larger should have more. Dosing for seven days is at a lower dose will work, but the correct amounts still need to be calculated.

If Thor weighs 6kg, 1ml (cc) = ~ 16.7mg/kg
If the girls weigh 3kg, 1ml (cc) = ~ 33.4mg/kg

Do you give a 500 pound pony the same amount of wormer as you give a 1000 pound horse?

Make sense?

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

I meant "he"... I was just trying to make a point that a bird that weighs 14 pounds (large peacock) should have twice as much wormer as one that weighs 7 pounds (small peahen). Does that make sense?

If your vet told you to give 1ml (cc) to any sized bird I think I would call him and talk about it. Here's the deal... most vets assume that all of us are stupid and that we are incapable of doing a little math, so I think that's why many give instructions like you were given.

If your vet told you to give 1ml (cc) of Safeguard paste for seven days, that will probably be fine for the hens, but I think anything larger should have more. Dosing for seven days is at a lower dose will work, but the correct amounts still need to be calculated.

If Thor weighs 6kg, 1ml (cc) = ~ 16.7mg/kg
If the girls weigh 3kg, 1ml (cc) = ~ 33.4mg/kg

Do you give a 500 pound pony the same amount of wormer as you give a 1000 pound horse?

Make sense?

-Kathy

Yes. I think the reason why he said only 1 cc is because of the size she was when I had the vet do a necropsy on Marshmallow.

 

[margaret8]

My Green was shipped yesterday and will be here tomorrow!

 

[Birdrain92]

Congratulations!