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You'd think that cat or dog Advantage (which is
Imitacloprid and not Ivermectin) would be more appropriate for chickens than a bovine wormer because of body size and skin thickness, although it looks as if it's toxic to Japanese Quail which puts up a red flag for other gallinaceous birds. Unfortunately the Ivermectin artical at Wikipedia stinks , so I'll have to google around and figure out the dog wormer which uses it.
One thing I notice from reading both Wiki articles is that there's a totally ass-backwards risk assessment; Imitacloprid has a relatively small margine between the effective and lethal doses in most animals, whereas Ivermectin is extremely safe except in a cluster of herd dog breeds and some reptiles.
When my brain is not sucking fumes I'll try to chase down a higher level of info, but Wikipedia does hold its attractions when I'm so sleep deprived that I've got trailing rainbows across my visual field for any moving target (which since I don't touch-type is a bit of a nuisance).
There are BYCers all over the planet raving about Eprinex...and have used it with fantastic results, so next time that is the route I go, especially the no egg waite AND ease of application verses the Ivermectin injectible...yuk, or Ivermectin soluble drops in the mouth..what a hassel that is...counting drops in a wiggling hens mouth, especially when you have so many birds !
NOTE: I always do the Wazine treatment first, suppose to relieve a good portion of the parasite load first, then a few days later do the Ivermectrin or Eprinex.
Yeah, I need to look into Eprinex; I'll swipe my sister's Jeffer's catalog when she's not ticked off at me/I'm not ticked off at me.
I've got to get the chicken run finished and the coop at least finished on the inside and tarped so I can worm the chooks and then put them in a clean place. I'm a firm believer in clean ground as the best pest control, but it gets tricky to manage when you have limited access to labor.
