what to do with eggs during worming

[allison finch]

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The bottle of Wazine says to treat once after a month. Did I read it wrong?

 

[ChooksChick]

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We blow them out and make art/crafty stuff from them. No point in remedicating them and it not clearing their systems.

 

[rcentner]

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The bottle of Wazine says to treat once after a month. Did I read it wrong?

I just read my bottle, it too says retreat in 1 month. hmmm....why 1 month when the life cycle of the worm is 2 weeks? As it only kills the adults you need to retreat to get the ones that weren't yet adults at the last deworming. I looked several places to confirm that the life cycle info I had was correct and found nothing to the contrary. So, being a vet tech with knowledge of a variety of dewormers and parasites in multiple species, I will retreat in 2 weeks. Being that in poultry medicine we are going for reduction on parasite load, not elimination of the parasites, that could be the reasoning for not repeating in 2 weeks. The vet drug handbook I have says that piperazine should be re-administered in 2 weeks for roundworms. And now that I think of it the vet at cornell I sopke with the other day did not correct me when I mentioned treatment plan, but he did say he preffers Ivermectin over piperazine. I ran a fecal yesterday from both my flocks and am happy with the results from the piperazine.

 

[allison finch]

I talked to my sister, who is a vet, and here is her take. Firstly, she does not do poultry. She believes that the chemical Wazine uses, will only kill the adult phase of roundworms. As such, you might be wasting it by worming too early to catch the second batch of adult worms. In a month, the next generation is adult and ready to kill,