Worm in the Poop

[shawluvsbirds]

Correct.

You should get a good weight and dose each bird straight to the beak by their weight at .23 ml per pound.

Oh hi Kiki! Forgot about you
Go ahead and me.

 

[coach723]

.23 ml/lb is correct, rounding to .25 to make the math easier is ok. So you will need to get a weight on them. A 4 lb bird would get 1 ml (.92). And remember to only give 1/2 ml at a time and let them swallow. I have always done two treatments 10 days apart for round worms. Have always thought the 3 day or 5 day treatments were for cecal or gape worm......never had to treat for those. Hopefully some one will correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Kiki]

Always repeat in 10 to 14 days.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Always repeat in 10 to 14 days.

If you were to do 5 consecutive days do you still have to retreat them in 10 days? I didn't. I just done 5 days. But I don't know if mine had worms just done it as a preventative when I brought home some new girls.

 

[Kiki]

If you were to do 5 consecutive days do you still have to retreat them in 10 days? I didn't. I just done 5 days. But I don't know if mine had worms just done it as a preventative when I brought home some new girls.

After the five straight day treatment you should still repeat one dose/one day again in 10-14 days to kill the newly hatched eggs.

 

[Kiki]

If you were to do 5 consecutive days do you still have to retreat them in 10 days? I didn't. I just done 5 days. But I don't know if mine had worms just done it as a preventative when I brought home some new girls.

5 straight days of deworming is not necessary for preventative.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

5 straight days of deworming in not necessary for preventative.

Well I wanted to make sure, the new ones were pretty ragged when I got them and acted like they were starving to death so I just kind of treated them as if they had worms.
Of course mine are ducks I don't know if that makes any difference.
What my vet told me was either do three days and retreat in 10 days or just do five days straight.
I just figured it was a more than one way to skin a cat kind of thing and went for the 5 days.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Sorry J. Hope we haven't confused the snot out of ya.

 

[casportpony]

If you want to eat the eggs and not waste them you can use Safeguard at a very low dose for 5 days.

Here j.
This is basically how I do it with the ducks

That is how I do it too.
Here is an article that I did:
Click here to open - Safely Administering Oral Medications to All Poultry and Waterfowl

If you were to do 5 consecutive days do you still have to retreat them in 10 days? I didn't. I just done 5 days. But I don't know if mine had worms just done it as a preventative when I brought home some new girls.

I don't do it again in 10 days. Not saying one shouldn't, just that I don't.

The problem with using Wazine is this warning "Do not use in chickens producing eggs for human consumption." All of my hens are producing eggs for human consumption.

Wazine *is* approved for use in laying hens in Canada, so that's something to think about.

Sorry J. Hope we haven't confused the snot out of ya.

Yeah, sorry. I just keep seeing that people really don't want to toss eggs so I just thought I should mention the bit about Wazine.

I can add more confusion by saying that fenbendazole (Safeguard and Panacur) is approved for use in laying hens if very small doses are used. I will start another thread that explains that.

New thread:
Click to open: Safeguard Mash - Zero Day Egg Withdrawal