Valbazen dosage for different sized chickens?

[casportpony]

Quote: I think it's a great thing to try, and one could also use it in their dogs if they've been using Droncit 34.

-Kathy

 

[katelk]

Well, tapeworms ARE worms...all worms including tapeworms are parasites and feed off nutrients meant for chickens. Praziquantel would be a good choice to kill tapeworms. I've never used "fish tapes" and I dont know the dosage. However I've used Zimectrin Gold equine paste wormer which contains ivermectin and praziquantel. Zimectrin Gold is found in the horse section in most feed stores. Dosage is a regular "pea" size amount given orally to each chicken. A small "pea" size amount given to smaller chickens. You can put it on a piece of bread and give a piece of the treated bread to each chicken individually. Then repeat dosing again in 10 days. Valbazen will kill tapeworms but it'll require withholding feed from your chickens for 24 hours, higher dosages, and redosing every 4th day in three sets of dosing, including withholding feed again for 24 hours in each of the three sets of wormings. Tapeworms are difficult to get rid of, I've dealt with them. Once you clear your birds free from tapeworms, I recommend dosing your birds with valbazen at least every three months to keep them in check. Your soil is contaminated with tapeworm eggs and insects are the host for the eggs. Chickens eat the infected insects starting the tapeworms lifecycle all over again. Save what's left of the Zimectrin Gold for future worming against an active case of tapeworms. You can see tapeworm segments in feces. Each segment contains hundreds of eggs. The segments work their way into /onto the soil where eggs are released and eaten by insects. Here's a pic of what tapeworm segments look like in feces:

I have never seen poop that looks like that. I have also never seen worms in their poop. The person from the lab that did the necropsy just said to treat for tapeworms. Does this mean it may be a minor case? I already paid $40 ordering the fish tapes pills, so going to give that a go. I can't find anywhere about it being used on chickens. So I am a bit nervous about that. The dosing is easier to comprehend than trying to get the proper amount of paste though.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: You'll be fine! Praziquantel is praziquantel, and it's very safe! Did you know that you can buy things like amoxicillin, Keflex and Cipro for fish? People do it all the time and use it on themselves and their pets. Safe to do as long as one understands proper dosing amounts.

-Kathy

 

[katelk]

I will use the pills and then redo the pills after 10 days.

I feel pretty set on deworming info now haha. I will let you know how it turns out!

 

[casportpony]

Take a look at all of these:

• Medicines
• Fish Antibiotics
  • About Fish Antibiotics
  • Packages
  • Fish Mox & Mox Forte (Amoxicillin)
  • Fish Flex & Flex Forte (Cephalexin/Keflex)
  • Fish Zole & Zole Forte (Metronidazole)
  • Fish Flox & Flox Forte (Ciprofloxacin)
  • Fish Pen & Pen Forte (Penicillin)
  • Fish Cycline & Cycline Forte (Tetracycline)
  • Fish Oxy Forte (Oxytetracycline Hydrochloride)
  • Fish Cillin (Ampicillin)
  • Fish Cin (Clindamycin)
  • Fish Sulfa Forte (Sulfameth/Trimethoprim)
  • Fish Fungus (Ketoconazole)
  • Fish Mycin (Erythromycin)
  • Fish Neo Forte (Neomycin)
  • Fish Kanaymcin
  • Fish Fura Forte (Furazolidone)
  • Fish Quine Forte (Chloroquine)
  • Fish Enro (Enrofloxacin)
  • Fish Doxy (Doxycycline)
  • Fish Nitro Forte (Nitrofurazone)
• Bird Antibiotics
  • Bird Biotic (Doxycycline)
  • Bird Sulfa (Sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim)
• Deworm
  • Fish Tapes & Tapes Forte (Praziquantel)
  • Fish Bendazole (Fenbendazole)

 

[katelk]

Thanks dawg and Kathy for all the help!!

 

[casportpony]

Thanks dawg and Kathy for all the help!!

You're welcome!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Here is another Praziquantel dosing source:

From: http://media.johnwiley.com.au/product_data/excerpt/57/04709596/0470959657-1.pdf
BIRDS:
For susceptible parasites (tapeworms):
a) ¼ of one 23 mg tablet/kg PO; repeat in 10–14 days. Add to feed or give by gavage. Injectable form is toxic to finches. (Clubb 1986)
b) For common tapeworms in chickens: 10 mg/kg (Roberson 1988)
c) For cestodes and some trematodes: Direct dose: 5–10 mg/kg PO or IM as a single dose -or- 12 mg of crushed tablets baked into a 9"x9"x2" cake. Finches should have their regular food withheld and be pre-exposed to a non-medicated cake. (Marshall 1993)

That's works out to 4.54mg per pound.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Praziquantel Info from Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook.













-Kathy

 

[cjwood]

How much valbazen added to a gallon of water for bantams? How much valbazen added to a gallon of water for big chickens?