Is it safe to let ducks drink the worming water that I give my chickens. I've got 8 Muscoveys living with about 30 chickens. I want to worm the chickens this fall. I don't know if it is safe for the ducks??
Ducks drink more than chickens, so they could overdose on the medication. I use the 1.87% horse oral ivermectin. I give each duck a bb sized amount right into their mouth. I just did all the ducks 2 days ago. Do it in the fall, and in the spring. twice a year.
I've read a lot of conflicting information about worming ducks, but I think I might follow the advice of worming in the late fall, worming when I get newcomers (unless they have been wormed already) and worming before I sell. They use a different wormers in the UK, but here's an article by Chris Ashton at Smallholder: http://www.smallholder.co.uk/poultry/976875.worms_in_waterfowl_and_poultry/
Oh, as far as dosages and what to use... I thought I would send an email off to someone about that in the next week or so. I wanted to make up a good list of questions before popping of the email though so I didn't have to bug them a lot.
I was just wondering about this a few days ago, my vet, whom also works on farm critters & owns a lot himself, sells worming stuff to me for all my animals. it's a milky colored liquid, cant remember the name though.
I was going to call him and ask if it works for birds too. everyone looks clean and acts fine but i wanna make sure since i keep the ducks in with the chickens sometimes.