Wazine before Ivermectin a necessity?

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What name brands are good broad spectrum wormers? I have wazine and ivermectin and will be changing over to eprinex but I don't know that much about broad spectrum wormers.
 
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Eprinex is another form of ivermectin which is a broad spectrum wormer, without egg or meat withdrawal. Other broad spectrum wormers that are widely used are: Valbazen liquid cattle/sheep wormer, Safeguard equine paste, Safeguard liquid goat wormer, Zimectrin Gold equine wormer, Equimax equine wormer, Quest Plus gel equine wormer. Personally I prefer the Valbazen, IMO it's the best wormer on the market.
 
I really don't want to fight about this again, but Eprinex (eprinomectin) has no meat or milk withdrawal. That's because of how the cow partitions off that wormer so it doesn't get into the meat or milk. It's got no research in chickens and therefore we have no idea whether you should do an egg withdrawal period (there's no reason to think that birds partition it like mammals do), and the dosage in chickens would be a guess. It would be wise, if you use it, to treat it like any other -mectin in terms of egg withdrawal.
 
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This is true what you say. I, and many others have eaten eggs immediately after using eprinex with no ill effects, others have eaten chicken meat as well I'm sure. The only true chicken wormer is wazine (FDA approved.) As far as I know, no other off label wormers are approved for chicken use. Again, off labels wormers are needed to get rid of other types of worms that wazine doesnt get.
And again...experienced chicken owners from years past have provided dosage amounts for eprinex which work, otherwise they'd have said something about sick or dead chickens using the product as well as withdrawal issues cropping up. Also, alot of university websites have recommended using off label wormers (not necessarily eprinex) to worm chickens.
 
I am totally in favor of off-label use. What I am uncomfortable with is saying that eprinex has no withdrawal. Of course it's not going to make you sick; the ivermectins are human meds as well and you're just giving yourself a very mild worming. But for the very few who may be sensitive to ivermectin, or for the many who want to avoid it for the same reason they avoid any unnecessary med, and (should go without saying) anyone selling eggs, you don't want to assume no withdrawal in a species that has never had it tested.
 
Yes, this is true especially if someone is sensitive to it. I see alot of posts of chicken owners wanting to use ivermectin products strictly to kill lice/mites. I normally dont recommend a wormer for that purpose and if I do it's only as a last resort. Wormers should be used for just that, worming. I also believe it's even more revelent when it comes down to using antibiotics on chickens, IMO they should be used as an absolute last resort (not to mention bacterial resistance which is also true for wormers.) Penicillin is a good example, it has been used in chickens against severe infections...we know there are people allergic to penicillin and residue could possibly be carried over into the eggs as well as the meat, but I dont know that for fact and I might be dead wrong about that. However, I figure if a chicken is that ill, it probably isnt laying eggs and anyone with common sense ought not eat the chicken neither...but you never know. Then again there are other products such as corid that have no egg withdrawal. It's used in cattle, in chickens for coccidia. I'm sure there are many many products used on chickens, not meant for chickens, that people use including natural products that may show signs of sensitivity in humans that people may or may not be aware of depending on the severity when they do or do not realize it. Actually this can be true for anything we eat, oysters make me deathly ill for some reason and I used to eat them all the time. Someone recently posted a withdrawal list for just about every med that has been used on chickens and I didnt write it down for reference, darn it. Maybe someone will come up with it again....
 

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