Stray Rooster arrives, just wandered into the yard.

Good luck with your new boy! It's really hard to actually quarantine at home, but do the best you can. Consider having some testing done; check with your state veterinary lab about saliva or blood testing for MG, for example. Call them!
He looks pretty good, considering. Maybe he'll actually be a nice guy after all...
Mary
Yes, if you are concerned about bringing nasties to the rest of your birds, the best plan is to enlist some professional help in testing for disease and a fecal float for worms. Sometimes birds have an immunity to whatever was living in the soil where they came from, but it will cause your birds to sicken. I only say this because I know you've been working hard at breeding combinations in your flock, and I would hate to have you jeopardize all of this.

If testing isn't an option, I would just take is slow and introduce a few birds at a time to him in a controlled location and watch how it goes. He might be just fine, and he looks like a nice maran rooster for all that he has likely been through.
 
Just ordered a 500 mg bottle of it from Allivet.com, also the local vet will dispense it for a small dispensing fee then so much per ml. cost me 9.00 from vet to treat 6 pullets, Though I did see they are not shipping to CA for some reason
Get a bathroom scale, weigh yourself. Then pick up each hen and weigh yourself with each hen in your hands. Subtract what you weigh from what you and the hens weigh to give you total chicken weight .
Mix up a bucket of their feed with about a quart of water that has the right amount of wormer in it. Feed it to them yourself.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist (not that anything is wrong with that). Even if you eff it up, you can overdose them by 100x and it won't kill or hurt hem. Safeguard is VERY safe and forgiving. Worst that can happen is you might give them a case of the sh!tz.
In that case, beware where you step!
 
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I rarely have to medicate thank heavens was just some pullets I got that were hatched elsewhere, sent a picture of the first poop they did when they got home to the breeder, don't envy having to treat about 200 pullets to hens, but I share with my sister and a few friends too if they need it .
That's a lot of birds to have to catch and medicate if you are doing them one by one, instead of mass feed dosing.
Good luck with that! :thumbsup
 

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