Tapeworms won't go away! Please help!

[casportpony]

Here are 2 brands that look similar:
https://www.amazon.com/PADDOCK-LABO...UTF8&qid=1544384122&sr=8-3&keywords=ora+blend

https://www.amazon.com/Ora-Blend-Su...UTF8&qid=1544384217&sr=8-1&keywords=ora+blend

The Ora-Plus is supposed to be mixed with the Ora-Sweet I think. The first couple batches I made I used just the Ora-Plus, now I use both. When I need to buy it again I will buy the Ora-Blend instead of the two bottles.

Here is they are:

 

[casportpony]

I don't think they had this when we bought ours.

 

[Krazy4Chicks]

I don't think they had this when we bought ours.
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Okay, great!!! I was starting to think this is going to be a super costly project - lol! My husband already thinks I'm crazy! I can't tell him what I'm planning to do or he'll shoot me.

 

[casportpony]

For a bottle to put it in, ask your pharmacist if they have any empty medication bottles:

You will also need a mortar and pestle.

 

[Krazy4Chicks]

For a bottle to put it in, ask your pharmacist if they have any empty medication bottles:
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You will also need a mortar and pestle.
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Thanks --- I'll check with a pharmacist about the bottles. Would I need a mortar and pestle if the Praziquantel is the consistency of baby powder already? I thought it was for crushing up pills and such?

 

[casportpony]

Thanks --- I'll check with a pharmacist about the bottles. Would I need a mortar and pestle if the Praziquantel is the consistency of baby powder already? I thought it was for crushing up pills and such?

I used one when I made a suspension with Nystatin powder.

Please, add up all of the costs and figure out if this is really what you want to do. I think the Equimax price per mg works out to about 1¢ per mg.

 

[Krazy4Chicks]

I used one when I made a suspension with Nystatin powder.

Please, add up all of the costs and figure out if this is really what you want to do. I think the Equimax price per mg works out to about 1¢ per mg.

Ugh! Yeah, I'm starting to think that the Equimax is probably the best way to go with regard to cost and ease of administering since it's already pre-mixed. But do you think that my having to redose with Equimax, and giving them more of the Ivermectin that they don't need, is still okay? Plus, I don't want the tapes to build immunity to the Equimax either.

 

[CannedMonster]

It will treat the same worms that Safeguard liquid for goats treats if you give the proper amount for several days in a row.

The one day treatment using any Safeguard treats only large roundworms and cecal worms.

Where did you read that the paste could be used to treat tapes? I ask because I wanna go see what was said.

Forgive me, I was wrong about the tapeworms.
The article is on “The Chicken Chick” website.
Article is titled: Control and Treatment of Worms In Chickens.
The Safeguard paste is supposed to treat threadworms, roundworms, cecal worms and gapeworms.
I took a screenshot of it...

 

[casportpony]

Forgive me, I was wrong about the tapeworms.
The article is on “The Chicken Chick” website.
Article is titled: Control and Treatment of Worms In Chickens.
The Safeguard paste is supposed to treat threadworms, roundworms, cecal worms and gapeworms.
I took a screenshot of it...

She has some very good stuff on her website, but her de-worming info has lots of misinformation. Maybe I should start a thread that points out all of the errors.

 

[CannedMonster]

She has some very good stuff on her website, but her de-worming info has lots of misinformation. Maybe I should start a thread that points out all of the errors.

I’m just looking for something simple.
I don’t need to treat the whole flock.
Just this one emaciated bantam cockerel.
I don’t know what’s wrong with him.
A pea sized dollop of Safeguard paste sounds pretty easy peasy.