Valbazen Where to buy? How much to give?

[Mosey2003]

It's available at most farm stores like Tractor Supply, Rural King, Farm & Fleet, Big R, etc. With the cattle medicine.

 

[Mosey2003]

Oh, and brace yourself, it only comes in cattle size so it's like $45.

 

[RoosterML]

Oh, and brace yourself, it only comes in cattle size so it's like $45.

Yep, I ended up ordering from Jeffers. $50 for 500ml so if anyone in the Northeast CT area wants some. No sense in letting it go bad. I believe it's only good for about a year.

 

[dawg53]

Yep, I ended up ordering from Jeffers. $50 for 500ml so if anyone in the Northeast CT area wants some. No sense in letting it go bad. I believe it's only good for about a year.

Generally, Valbazen has a 2 year expiration date on the bottle. Also, keep in mind that worm eggs will be on your soil and will be picked by your birds again, and they will be eventually reinfected. So, you'll need to reworm them in time.

 

[coach723]

It's probably good longer than a year. I bought a bottle about 6 months ago, expires 03/2021. I usually end up using most of a bottle before it expires. I have 27 birds currently that are wormed regularly.

 

[Mosey2003]

I always make sure I draw out of it with a clean syringe, too (no needle, obviously).

 

[RoosterML]

Sounds like every 6 months is good from what I gather.

 

[dawg53]

Sounds like every 6 months is good from what I gather.

It depends on your environment, particularly soil conditions. If your birds are penned all the time on the same soil, you'll need to worm more frequently.
Warm wet or moist soil is worm soup. Keeping everything as dry as possible is best.
If your soil is cool or cold most of the time, you might only have to worm every 6 months like you mentioned.
Here where we live, our soil is warm and moist practically all year (mostly wet last year from all the flooding rains we had.) I worm monthly without fail.
Sand in the pens helps immensely.

 

[RoosterML]

Last year around here ended up being one of the top 5 wettest on record so I am sure that wasn't helping at all.

 

[Al Capon]

Wormed with Valbazen on Saturday, found this on Sunday, so at least one of my seven had some in its guts. Will rotate with Safeguard in the Summer. Given at .1ml/1lb, the stuff works.