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.

 

[RaptorTender]

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.

Quick clarification,

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.

that’s real helpful, thanks! I had a program write me dosage based on weights. This all seem correct? It followed the 0.23ml per pound math . I ended up rounding up though because I’d rather do extra than under dose.
Some of them had to be given it by soaking a little piece of bread lol

 

[RaptorTender]

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.

I just thought of another question.
Does the coop need to be cleaned out daily during treatment?
Since the eggs can live awhile in the environment… I’m assuming the odds of the coop having major contamination is high.
They are on day 2 of treatment.

Which leads me to another (so sorry) question, what about their run? I can’t relocate them at the moment so what stops them from getting infected during or shortly after the treatment

 

[dawg53]

How often you worm birds depends on your environment. Warm moist or wet soil may require frequent worming. Cool/cold soil or hot desert like soil/sand may require less worming.
Most benzimidazoles are good for 28-30 days after initial worming.

Our soil here where we live is warm and moist most of the year and I worm my birds monthly with Valbazen. I have used Safeguard in the past as well as other wormers.
I have sand in all the pens, coops and most nest boxes. Sand helps keep everything dry, deters insects, dries quickly after it rains and is easy to scoop poop. Think beach.
Roundworm eggs can survive in soil for several years. I worm my birds monthly.

 

[RaptorTender]

How often you worm birds depends on your environment. Warm moist or wet soil may require frequent worming. Cool/cold soil or hot desert like soil/sand may require less worming.
Most benzimidazoles are good for 28-30 days after initial worming.

Our soil here where we live is warm and moist most of the year and I worm my birds monthly with Valbazen. I have used Safeguard in the past as well as other wormers.
I have sand in all the pens, coops and most nest boxes. Sand helps keep everything dry, deters insects, dries quickly after it rains and is easy to scoop poop. Think beach.
Roundworm eggs can survive in soil for several years. I worm my birds monthly.

We’ve always had free range, their run is soil and their coops haven’t had bedding ever, but it gets scooped out and left to air out with fans a full day prior to the chickens going back inside, when we clean them.
We’ve never had a problem with worms in the years we’ve had chickens but I’m reading that they can just happen to eat an earthworm and ta da? Worms? i may start worming them frequently.
I was told that the safeguard technically only lasts a day and if they eat the worm eggs on day 5 after medication, then they will just be reinfected again

 

[dawg53]

We’ve always had free range, their run is soil and their coops haven’t had bedding ever, but it gets scooped out and left to air out with fans a full day prior to the chickens going back inside, when we clean them.
We’ve never had a problem with worms in the years we’ve had chickens but I’m reading that they can just happen to eat an earthworm and ta da? Worms? i may start worming them frequently.
I was told that the safeguard technically only lasts a day and if they eat the worm eggs on day 5 after medication, then they will just be reinfected again

Here's a link for you to read. Please read all the posts and you'll get a good idea about the roundworm lifecycle, particularly responses from
Sue Gremlin, she is a certified parasitologist.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/large-roundworm-from-egg-to-worm.1432138/