No Egg Withdrawal Deworming Medication for Poultry
- Donna Weekes
- Sep 10, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Feb 22
How do Chickens get Internal Parasites?
These parasites may have either a DIRECT LIFE CYCLE, the chicken eats the worm eggs off the ground or an INDIRECT LIFE CYCLE, an insect eats the worm eggs and then is eaten by the chicken.
Unfortunately there is no natural preventatives or treatment remedies for internal parasites, by doing this, in the end you are doing more harm by adding unnecessary products and gimmicks to their diet and upsetting the nutritional balance they need to keep their immune system healthy.
A healthy chicken can manage a reasonable worm load but when a chicken gets sick or stressed, their immune system is taxed and the parasites have the opportunity to overpopulate.
When worms become a problem they can cause disease, infection and death.
Symptoms include:
*worms in eggs
*abnormal droppings (diarrhea, foamy-looking ,etc.)
*weight loss
*pale comb/wattles
*listlessness
*dirty vent feathers
*worms in droppings
*throat gasping, head-stretching and shaking
*bald butts (inability to regrow feathers)
*reduced egg production and sudden death
FENBENDAZOLE 20% AQUASOL
*NO EGG WITHDRAWAL WHEN USED ACCORDING TO MIXING INSTRUCTIONS
I offer the dewormer in 9ml viles. The concentrated amount will treat 800+ lbs chickens.
Fenbendazole 20% AquaSol is the most effective treatment for nearly all types of internal parasitic worms affecting poultry.
It's effective against the following types of intestinal and poultry worms:
-Adult and larval Roundworms
-Cecal worms
-Threadworms
-Gapeworm
-Eyeworm
-Tapeworms (most common)
Each ml of AquaSol concentrate contains 200 mg of Fenbendazole and must be administered orally to chickens via drinking water at a daily dose of 1 mg/kg BW (0.454 mg/lb) for 5 consecutive days.
DO NOT administer directly into their mouth, as this is a concentrate and requires water to activate and be absorbed into their intestinal tract.
Tapeworm Notice: Even though Fenbendazole is known to treat the two most common types of tapeworm found in chickens, it is recommended that if treating for tapeworm, to either double the dose or add one additional drop of AqualSol per gallon of water.
GENERAL MIXING INSTRUCTIONS
Total body weight of the chickens to be treated x 0.005 ml = ml Aquasol/day
Total body weight of the chickens to be treated x 0.00227 ml = Aquasol/day
1. Weigh your Chickens-
If your treating many birds, you can estimate by simply weighing a few and getting an average for all. A small extra amount of medication will not be harmful to poultry.
An average hen weighs 5 lbs, roosters weigh around 7 lbs and bantams are around 2 lbs each.
2. Use the Guide-
A chart is provided below to determine the number of drops of Fenbendazole 20% AqualSol to use for the number of chickens you will be treating.
NOTICE: When dealing with tapeworm you might want to add an additional drop per gallon of water.
3. Shake the AqualSol well before mixing.
The nanoparticles in the solution tend to settle to the bottom of the bottle, making the bottle look half full (when it's actually not)
4. Add the calculated volume of AquaSol to the amount of drinking water that the number of chickens will consume in a 24 hour period and stir thoroughly.
GUIDE: Chickens typically drink two cups of water per day each, ducks typically drink twice that (4 cups), turkeys drink about 3-4 cups of water a day, and quail typically drink about 5% of their body weight (2-2.5 oz of water daily)
5. At the end of each day, remove any remaining water, rinse the waterer out and replace with newly medicated water.
Repeat in 10 days if needed (worms seen or fecal float indicates)
*REMOVE ALL OTHER SOURCES OF DRINKING WATER DURING TREATMENT.
The daily dose of 1 mg Fenbendazole per kg body weight (0.5 mg per pound)
Example: a 5 pound chicken would require about 1/4 of a drop of medication.
It is okay to have a little more medication in the water than necessary.
Over dosing by a "small amount" in not harmful to the chickens.
Amount of Safe-Guard AquaSol Appx Total Weight of Chickens
1 Drop (0.05 ml) 22 lbs (3-4 chickens)
2 Drops (0.1 ml) 44 lbs (9-11 chickens)
3 Drops (0.15 ml) 66 lbs (13-16 chickens)
4 Drops (0.2 ml ) 88 lbs (18-22 chickens)
5 Drops (0.25 ml) 110 lbs (22-28 chickens)
6 Drops (0.3 ml) 132 lbs (26-33 chickens)
7 Drops (0.35 ml) 154 lbs (31-39 chickens)
8 Drops (0.4 ml) 176 lbs (35-44 chickens)
9 Drops (0.45 ml) 198 lbs (40-50 chickens)
10Drops (0.5 ml) 220 lbs (44-55 chickens)
PLEASE NOTE: There is a chance that Fenbendazole AquaSol could affect feather regrowth during molting but chances are very low. Unless your chickens are having a heavy molt the product is perfectly safe.
A very informative article on Internal Parasites-
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