Dose for Safeguard is .23ml per pound of bird weight. 2 doses 10 days apart for roundworms, dose 5 days in a row for capillary or gape worm. If you have a digital kitchen scale, that will give you a good weight. So a 4 lb bird would get .92ml and I would just round up to 1ml. You can usually get 3ml syringes at Tractor Supply, most pharmacies have 1ml oral syringes, just ask the pharmacist. Egg withdrawl recommendation is usually 14 days following dose. 10 birds-piece of cake!!
Seriously, it gets easier with practice. If you have help, one to hold the bird, one to dose, great. If not, draw the correct dose (shake well before drawing) just hold them under your arm (left if you are right handed). Pull down on the wattles to open the beak, some you might have to pry and hold with fingers, put the dose in the front of the beak .5ml at a time and let them swallow, repeat until entire dose is given. Done. If you have a spaz chicken, wrap them in a bath towel to help hold them. Wear work clothes, you may be covered in poo and wormer when you are done.
This could mean a bacteria infection.
Are they all the same breed?
