Kateslilfarm
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- Dec 3, 2021
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I got a fairly small bag of the pellets. It’s is 3 cups total and weighs 15.8 ounces.The thing about using those medicated pellets is getting the right amount into each bird daily. If you mix the medicated pellets into a daily amount of feed for all the birds, one bird will eat more than another and that messes with the daily birds dose of Fenbendazole which may result in underdosing and then the worms may become resistant to the medication. This is not a good thing. It is better to use the paste or suspension and directly dose each bird with the proper amount of Fenbendazole than mixing the pellets in their feed and hoping they will eat the proper amount of pellets each.
But there is a zero day withdrawal mash method that uses the paste or suspension so one could technically use the pellets like that too.
Also, depending on how many birds you have, you could separate each bird until they eat the right amount of pellets and then let them out but that sounds like alot of trouble.
So if you are still willing to use the pellets, here are the converisons and do so at your own risk:
Fenbendazole Dose 10% Paste or Suspension 0.5% Pellets 0.45 mg/lb 0.005 ml per lb of weight 90 mg per lb of weight 22.7 mg/lb 0.227 ml per lb of weight 4.54 g per lb of weight
So if you wanted to use the 22.7 mg/lb dose with a 5 lb chicken using the pellets, that chicken will have to consume 22.7 g of pellets per day.
I don't know what the pellets equate to in volume but if someone will weigh, say 4 cups of the pellets, and tell me exactly what it weighs, I can figure it out then.