Silkie pullet holding head down and standing alone

[lancasterflock]

Two crows; I forgot to ask, is their any withdrawal period for the horse paste? I already know their is a two week withdrawal period for the dewormer, but was just curious about the paste?

 

[TwoCrows]

Two crows; I forgot to ask, is their any withdrawal period for the horse paste? I already know their is a two week withdrawal period for the dewormer, but was just curious about the paste?

2 weeks on the horse paste as well.

 

[casportpony]

Ivermectin Pour On for Cattle or Ivermectin Paste for horses. Either of these will help with external bugs. A pea sized dolop on a tiny piece of bread one time on the horse paste. About 5 drops behind the neck on the skin for the Pour On one time. Either one will work. This should help make the skin toxic enough to repel or kill bugs. You will also need to do a thorough cleaning of the coop and nest boxes. Strip everything down and spray or powder with some sort of permethrin or poultry debugging agent. Get every crack in the nest boxes and under the roost bar really well where the bugs like to hide and lay their eggs. You may need to do this once a week for about a month. Redose the bird in 10 days as well with which ever medication you use. 

Good luck, mites are so hard to deal with!!

Good Heavens, looks like black friday for me will be spent cleaning the coop and medicating all my girls. I will probably do the horse paste as it seems the most practical time wise.
I will get both the paste and the debugging powder later this evening.

Kathy I have the corid liquid

The drench dose for the liquid is 0.1 ml per pound for 1 or 2 days, and that's in addition to the medicated medicated water.

Medicated water using the liquid is 10ml per gallon for 5 days, then 2.5 ml for 7-14 days.

-Kathy

 

[lancasterflock]

Two crows and kathy thank you both so much and Happy Thanksgiving to you both!

 

[casportpony]

Two crows and kathy thank you both so much and Happy Thanksgiving to you both!

You're welcome and Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!

-Kathy

 

[lancasterflock]

Update:
Snowy still seems down and not feeling very well. I did treat with the ivermectin horse paste just today. She finished her last day of worming yesterday and 2 more days of corid in the water before we repeat.

I did go buy more straw and pine shavings to clean out the coop. Along with poultry dust for the mites/lice. I will get the rest of the flock with the paste tomm as well as clean the coop thoroughly and dust. Ugh I hope this all works. So worried about snowy. With parasites, the cold and whatever else is going on it seems to be really taking its toll on her.

Im remaining hopeful. I keep her hospital cage in the garage with a heat lamp and at night i bring her hospital cage in where its nice and warm. Seems to be where shes the most happy. :/

 

[enola]

Did you use Ivermectin for worming her?

 

[lancasterflock]

No I did'nt. Twocrows advised me to use the ivermectin as a repellant for lice and mites. I wormed her with safeguard goat dewormer. I have also put corid in her water. :/

 

[enola]

You need to use Ivermectin pour on for mites.

 

[lancasterflock]

Hmmm....maybe twocrows will chime in. From my understanding the ivermectin taken internally also repelled/killed external parasites as well. Maybe I misunderstood?