Tapeworm blockage?

[sooky]

Just thought I'd let anyone know who is interested that Sooky is still with us and fully mobile again. She still has an overly firm crop and doesn't eat a huge amount but she does eat, scratches about, gets the best spot on the perch, dust bathes, keeps up with the others and comes up to me every time I go outside like she used to before she got sick.
She actually seemed to like the olive oil and I later and for a couple of days gave her a syringe full of slippery elm bark powder (with warm water) which is a nice mild herbally sort of remedy I use when my guts don't feel great. She also liked rockmelon seeds and brown rice. I just felt that whether she was over the tapeworm or whether that was her main problem, I couldn't really be sure in the end. what I did know was that she seemed weak from not getting enough food so I made sure she got some and she's getting stronger evry day now..
The other chooks ( aside from the broody australorp) that I thought had gone off the lay had indeed been filling up a well camouflaged nest under the house.
I was interested to read about the tapeworm medication because I too hadn't come across any specifically for tapeworm. I rate chooks higher than cats so it's a pity.
Also, I dosed Sooky with 1 avitrol tab (mavlab's 20mg lev/ 4 mg praz) the last time as she had lost so much weight with her unwelless that she was pretty much in the range of 500g-750g - 1 tab - as suggested - and as it's a poison, I thought that an overdose - just a week after the first dose - could kill her
Anyway, until the next time, thanks again to everyone who responded to Sooky's issues. They're not over completely with the crop and all but Im still not keen on doing backyard chook crop surgery. More massages and olive oil ?

 

[cowcreekgeek]

Just thought I'd let anyone know who is interested that Sooky is still with us and fully mobile again. She still has an overly firm crop and doesn't eat a huge amount but she does eat, scratches about, gets the best spot on the perch, dust bathes, keeps up with the others and comes up to me every time I go outside like she used to before she got sick.
She actually seemed to like the olive oil and I later and for a couple of days gave her a syringe full of slippery elm bark powder (with warm water) which is a nice mild herbally sort of remedy I use when my guts don't feel great. She also liked rockmelon seeds and brown rice. I just felt that whether she was over the tapeworm or whether that was her main problem, I couldn't really be sure in the end. what I did know was that she seemed weak from not getting enough food so I made sure she got some and she's getting stronger evry day now..
The other chooks ( aside from the broody australorp) that I thought had gone off the lay had indeed been filling up a well camouflaged nest under the house.
I was interested to read about the tapeworm medication because I too hadn't come across any specifically for tapeworm. I rate chooks higher than cats so it's a pity.
Also, I dosed Sooky with 1 avitrol tab (mavlab's 20mg lev/ 4 mg praz) the last time as she had lost so much weight with her unwelless that she was pretty much in the range of 500g-750g - 1 tab - as suggested - and as it's a poison, I thought that an overdose - just a week after the first dose - could kill her
Anyway, until the next time, thanks again to everyone who responded to Sooky's issues. They're not over completely with the crop and all but Im still not keen on doing backyard chook crop surgery. More massages and olive oil ?

Hey, and Happy Thanksgiving to all (even those that don't get the day off ~'-)

I'm not sure on the crop, or all the other foods ... bein' certain to give her all nutritional requirement is essential, most especially while she's ill, and possibly infested by worms.

The problem I see is that you've been givin' one tab regularly which, despite what the labeling may claim, is not enough praziquantel for your bird: 1 mg per 100g is what is required in order to kill 100% of the adult tapeworm, based upon the study cited in my previous post. The Lavamisole hydrochloride it contains exceeds the dosage req'd to kill 100% of the roundworms, which almost couldn't be an issue any longer.

Dawg53 give good info in this post, in regard to it's better use. But, if I were to use praziquantel again? I'd actually weight the bird first, rather than guess, and empty her out first. However, at the dosages previously given, at least 3-5% of the adult tapeworms survived any given treatment, and could easily have become resistant to the praziquantel by now. Therefore, I would use a different wormer, such as Albendazole, that is proven to be effective against the tapeworms that your birds could potentially have, and at the exact amount required so as to be 100% effective against Raillietina sp., Choanotaenia sp. and Hymenolepis sp., which are the three tapeworms w/in your region that your birds may have become infested by.

I don't like using chemical either, but if I've gotta do it at all? Then, I'm gonna do it right ... I never trust labels, or dasages suggested w/o extended verification, preferable by reading a published research study in which the results demonstrate the precise amount req'd (as is the case for praaiquantel, at the very specific confirmed dosage of 10mg/kg of body weight ~'-)