Well that's how it's supposed to be done. 1 ounce per gallon of water as their sole drinking water - SOLE drinking water, no puddles, for one day. Then yes - dump it and refill with regular water in the morning. Then yes - 6 weeks later, use a more broad spectrum wormer for those birds over 4 months of age.
You can give all sorts of different wormers, but fenbendazole is easy, cheap, readily available, and quite effective - doesn't require individual dosing.
Fenbendazole is called SafeGuard 10% goat wormer, a liquid. You mix a certain amount in with a certain amount of water and then 2 pounds of feed, feed as their first meal of the day (withhold feed the day before) til it's all gone. Or if you buy the SafeGuard horse or cattle paste wormer, you just put 1 bb sized piece in the beak for each bird.
SafeGuard is a very common wormer, the paste being more common than the goat wormer - you'll find it at most feedstores. Just call ahead so you don't waste your time/gas.
Then you use fenbendazole or ivermectin twice a year - not every two years.
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You can give all sorts of different wormers, but fenbendazole is easy, cheap, readily available, and quite effective - doesn't require individual dosing.
Fenbendazole is called SafeGuard 10% goat wormer, a liquid. You mix a certain amount in with a certain amount of water and then 2 pounds of feed, feed as their first meal of the day (withhold feed the day before) til it's all gone. Or if you buy the SafeGuard horse or cattle paste wormer, you just put 1 bb sized piece in the beak for each bird.
SafeGuard is a very common wormer, the paste being more common than the goat wormer - you'll find it at most feedstores. Just call ahead so you don't waste your time/gas.
Then you use fenbendazole or ivermectin twice a year - not every two years.
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