Does any one use ivermectin in chickens ?

[casportpony]

From the site you copy and pasted from:
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None suck blood, so ivermectin will have no effect on them.

-Kathy

casportpony, Kathy says that under her hands on experience, Ivermectin does not kill Lice because the Lice do not suck blood but according to backyardchickens guru "

dawg53" ​

the lice will still bite the hens and ingest the poison from the hens blood. There are different species so you will have to experiment a bit. It didn't work for kathy but depending on the species it may for you! Ive never had lice on mine but will look out now I know what to look for. Perhaps if the hen is completely riddled with lice they all do not get chance to bite the hen so those that have ingested the Ivermectin and die but you cannot see a difference as the others just take their places and in the end the hen may die!


https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/687442/treating-with-ivermectin


http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ig140

I was wrong, ivermectin does treat lice. Please accept my apologies for posting misinformation.

 

[DizzyDawn]

There are organic wormers that allow you to continue eating the eggs during treatment. Verm-X is my choice...works great and the chickens like eating it.

Chickens love this Verm-X but unfortunately its not a wormer..... sorry xxx

 

[MommaHen2Many]

I know this is an old thread...I've been doing some reading-up! I link below to the WHO article is broken...do you happen to have it saved and could share it? Thanks

There's a great (free) e-book put out by the World Health Organization specifically about poultry parasites, including how to figure out what you're dealing with using tabletop techniques (i.e., what you have around, plus a cheap microscope): http://www.smallstock.info/reference/KVLDK/Poultry_Parasites.pdf ; it (unsurprisingly) tells smallholders to rotate the -zoles and piperazine, which is exactly what most on this board will recommend.

 

[karadoskocil]

When I use Ivomec, I eat the eggs, i wont sell them, but I DO eat em, I havent gotten sick yet. But thats me, Im not saying you should eat em or that you would be ok eating them. I also know that ivomec is given to people in 3rd would countries for worms.

People around here take Ivomec to prevent Covid. Eggs are fine.