The Truth About the "Pea Sized Blob" of Horse Paste De-Wormer

[casportpony]

It is 5 days for liquid valbzen, which treats everything but tapes.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...s-for-poultry-waterfowl-and-game-birds.75490/

Valbazen (albendazole) is one dose, repeat in 10-14 days, except for gapeworms. Give three consecutive days for gapeworms.

Safeguard (fenbendazole) is given for five consecutive days.

 

[nuthatched]

Valbazen (albendazole) is one dose, repeat in 10-14 days, except for gapeworms. Give three consecutive days for gapeworms.

Safeguard (fenbendazole) is given for five consecutive days.

Ah, thanks for the clarification!

 

[FreedomGalTx]

To treat tapes you can give this:
https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petco...worm-dewormer-tablets-for-cats-3-pack-2674501

If the bird weighs one pound, I would give 1/4 tablet orally, then repeat in 10-14 days. This will treat tapworms.
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What I have is Eqimax paste. Just confirmed all 5 birds have segments. 3 weigh 5lbs one weighs 4lbs and one is 3.5lbs. I now understand the dose just need to know if it's given just once & then repeated when? Or is it given for 5 days

 

[casportpony]

What I have is Eqimax paste. Just confirmed all 5 birds have segments. 3 weigh 5lbs one weighs 4lbs and one is 3.5lbs. I now understand the dose just need to know if it's given just once & then repeated when? Or is it given for 5 days

Give once & repeat in 10-14 days.

 

[dgh]

I'm sorry, but where do you come up with this theory about a lack of mixing in commercial horse vermifuge? Any company that would produce such a thing would go out of business faster than Donald Trump! Not to mention the regulatory problems and veterinarians who would drive any outfit producing such a product over a cliff, PDQ.

With all due respect, barring you providing some kind, or even any, actual evidence for what you say above, I will disregard your anecdotal and quite likely misleading observations.

edit: I forgot to again thank you casportpony for your diligent efforts at making deworming our birds so much less of a daunting task. Your math is spot on and advice worth it's weight in Zimectrin Gold! (Called Eqvalan Gold up here on the northern fringes of the civilized world)

Marked not safe from political rhetoric

 

[lizo97]

This is what this book recommends for gapes:

So that would be 0.14 ml (paste or liquid) per pound for 5 consecutive days


This is what many vets prescribe:


The above is for liquid or paste.