Visible eye worms in month old baby chicken :(

[dawg53]

If your feed store doesnt carry Valbazen, here's where you can order it:
https://www.jefferspet.com/products/valbazen-broad-spectrum-dewormer

You'll need the 500ml bottle for treatment for the long term in eliminating them. You'll need a syringe without a needle to flush the eyes with the 50/50 mixture, as well as dosing orally.
Also, Valbazen kills all other types of worms that chickens can get.

 

[ChickenMama308]

My feed store only sells terramycin antibiotic gel for eye worms and another feed store an hour away with a guy who’s been raising hundreds of chickens for 50 years claims one drop ivermectin with three drops sterilized water does the trick...

 

[ChickenMama308]

Just for anyone who might read this in the future: what I ended up doing was following the advice of the owner of a feed store who's been working with chickens for 50 years... One CC/ml Ivermectin to Thee CC/ml sterilized water, put into a small container and mixed, then drawn into a syringe and put lovingly into the eyes of the sweet chickens (needle removed!) 2-3 drops per eye in each chicken for 3 days - and the worms should die by then. The chickens took it really well and I feel it was a good decision to treat all of them as I've seen all of them eating the surinam cockroaches. I plan to remove all items in their coop on the ground (as the bugs hide under them) and remove all yard debris around their coop as this is where they like to hang out. Supposedly the Ivermectin eye treatment works to de-worm them as well and would kill any mites that bite them! I may use valbazen as a treatment for the water I give to all the wild chickens & birds around here as well in the near future, so as to help treat them as they more than likely have the worms as well.

 

[Kiki]

Just for anyone who might read this in the future: what I ended up doing was following the advice of the owner of a feed store who's been working with chickens for 50 years... One CC/ml Ivermectin to Thee CC/ml sterilized water, put into a small container and mixed, then drawn into a syringe and put lovingly into the eyes of the sweet chickens (needle removed!) 2-3 drops per eye in each chicken for 3 days - and the worms should die by then. The chickens took it really well and I feel it was a good decision to treat all of them as I've seen all of them eating the surinam cockroaches. I plan to remove all items in their coop on the ground (as the bugs hide under them) and remove all yard debris around their coop as this is where they like to hang out. Supposedly the Ivermectin eye treatment works to de-worm them as well and would kill any mites that bite them! I may use valbazen as a treatment for the water I give to all the wild chickens & birds around here as well in the near future, so as to help treat them as they more than likely have the worms as well.

Will you update this thread in a few days to let up know if this treatment worked for you?

 

[casportpony]

Here's a link regarding albendazole (Valbazen) used as direct eye treatment in killing eyeworm. Magnify page 1 and drag up to read, then go to page 2 in the link and do the same.
Dosing orally after eye treatment kills worms hatched from eggs. Personally I would orally reworm monthly due to the soil contaminated with worm eggs.


https://issuu.com/magnuspaulk/docs/2012-jiva-april-page-43-44

Is this what you are suggesting?

If so, the Valbazen dose is 0.1ml per pound.

 

[Kiki]

The article @dawg53 linked show this ON THE FIRST PAGE.

 

[Kiki]

@dawg53 do you have any more literature about using it in the eye?

 

[dawg53]

None, other than what you posted (that I had seen before) and what BYC member Pine Grove stated years ago about Valbazen treating eyeworm as stated above in my post (50/50 mixture in eye.)
If anyone knows, he would.

 

[casportpony]

So I saw these two:

The article @dawg53 linked show this ON THE FIRST PAGE.

Thanks, I was having a hard time enlarging it. You gonna do the math, lol?

 

[casportpony]

For a 2.5% solution, is that 2.2 ml Valbazen to 8.8 ml of distilled water or saline?