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wanted to get into doing a yearly deworming for my entire flock as a preventative, does anyone have any tips for dosing a flock of 10 with liquid safe guard goat dewormer?
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This is a good theory (and I agree) but since worms can pass intermittently they may never show up on a fecal float... as was the case when I finally had to treat for what I could see the same day my float came back negative..I think it's best to dose them when they need it and after a fecal float test is done to determine which worm you're dealing with.
wanted to get into doing a yearly deworming for my entire flock as a preventative, does anyone have any tips
Oh, interesting! My avian vet advised against it for similar reasons. There'sa resistence problem here. Huh. Well, then, nevermind.My (avian) vet recommends treating once per year regardless of fecal float for MY location, soil type, stock density
hi there! thanks for the advice! i think i am going to dose them simply because i recently had a chicken die from water belly/heart failure and i’ve noticed a decrease in egg production. last time i had a chicken die in this way i had a fecal float test done (after paying 250) and dosed them for coccidiosis and egg production ramped back up, so i think it’s a good idea to skip a fecal float, and just give them a dose of safe guard because even though it might not treat coccidiosis, corid can be harmful if not dealing with an infection. this is just a long way to say i probably won’t be dosing them yearly, but i am dosing them right now just in caseI'm not a fan of scheduled worming due to issues with resistance. Plus Safeguard doesn't kill all worms. I think it's best to dose them when they need it and after a fecal float test is done to determine which worm you're dealing with. Otherwise, you may just end up with a super worm that can't be killed or with birds whose wormloads are out of control because fendendazole doesn't treat all worms.
But dising 10 isn't hard, ime. I go in at night, start at one end of the roost, pick up a chicken, put the paste in their beaks, wait for them to swallow, put it back down, and move on to the next. I have also brought them into my house one at a time and wrote down who I'd dosed to make sure I didn't miss anyone. That's how I did it when my 25 needed worming (after verifying I was dealing with worms and knowing exactly which worm it was).
Gotcha. My vet was pretty adamant about not doing it as a preventative, but it sounds like that's either one vet's opinion or just a thing in my area. You learn something new every day.hi there! thanks for the advice! i think i am going to dose them simply because i recently had a chicken die from water belly/heart failure and i’ve noticed a decrease in egg production. last time i had a chicken die in this way i had a fecal float test done (after paying 250) and dosed them for coccidiosis and egg production ramped back up, so i think it’s a good idea to skip a fecal float, and just give them a dose of safe guard because even though it might not treat coccidiosis, corid can be harmful if not dealing with an infection. this is just a long way to say i probably won’t be dosing them yearly, but i am dosing them right now just in case