Weight question with dewormer, and how long to treat— site won’t load previous forums for me

[RaptorTender]

Hi all! I tried going through the forum for answers but for some reason nothing is loading for me. I’ve tried acouple times this morning it seems it having issues with the site in general. I tried to post earlier but it’s saying it did not post. So I have a few quick questions.
I’m deworming for specifically round worms, I don’t know if my whole flock has it but I know atleast 2 do so as preventive measure I’m deworming all.

First question: my flock has varying weight. I’m using the goat dewormer 10% suspension. Half my flock is 4lbs the other is 6lbs. Does the dose have to be so close to the weight that I could not give a 4lb chicken the 6lb dose?
I have acouple 1and 3 lb birds that I Ofcourse wouldn’t give the 6lb dose to because that seems way too big of a stretch, but could the 1/3 lb also share a dose size?
And if it has to be more or less an accurate dose, if a chicken is say, 4.8 lbs or 4.2 lbs, do I round to the nearest whole number?

Second question: this is just for round worms however I’m not opposed to treating for all the other types just in case.
I read elsewhere that round worms are once, and then again in 10 days.
And the other worms including round, are 5 consecutive days.

If I want to treat for all worms but mainly round, do I do the 5 consecutive days and then one day(following 10 days later)? Or just 5 consecutive days and then not again at all?
Thanks so much in advance

 

[Eggcessive]

Welcome to BYC. SafeGuard or fenbendazole doesn’t have to be given at the exact dose, but try to get it close. The 4 pound birds would get roughly 1 ml, while the 6 pounders would get 1.5 or 1 1/2 ml. It is 1/4 ml or 0.23 ml per pound of weight, and I would round up to the next pound. Shake it well between drawing up doses. I would go ahead and treat for most all chicken worms with the 5 consecutive days dosage. It doesn’t have to be repeated after that, according to the worm experts, but it won’t kill them if you give that later dose at the 10-14 day point. Pull down of the wattles as you hold them, give 1/2 ml at a time, release the wattles for them to swallow and repeat until all in. Grabbing them off the roost before daylight is a good time to worm them, and you can set them down to go outside. I like using a red headlamp to do that at night or before daylight. I hope this helps.