Which dewormer to use as preventative?

[Ccort]

What do you recommend? Is Corid appropriate for this?

 

[Eggcessive]

Corid is a medication that treats coccidiosis only. For worming the 2 I would recommend are Valbazen sheep and cattle wormer, or SafeGuard Liquid Goat Wormer or the horse paste. Dosage of Valbazen, which can be found online and in some feed stores is 1/2 ml (0.5 ml) given orally, and then repeated it in 10 days. SafeGuard is 0.23 or 1/4 ml per pound, given for 5 consecutive days orally to get most chicken worms except tapeworm. You could also just give it once and again in 10 days for roundworms only.

 

[Ccort]

Corid is a medication that treats coccidiosis only. For worming the 2 I would recommend are Valbazen sheep and cattle wormer, or SafeGuard Liquid Goat Wormer or the horse paste. Dosage of Valbazen, which can be found online and in some feed stores is 1/2 ml (0.5 ml) given orally, and then repeated it in 10 days. SafeGuard is 0.23 or 1/4 ml per pound, given for 5 consecutive days orally to get most chicken worms except tapeworm. You could also just give it once and again in 10 days for roundworms only.

Thank you! For two new girls to my flock...should I do both Safeguard and Corid?

 

[rosemarythyme]

You don't use dewormers as a preventative. Either they have worms or they don't, you cannot give it in advance to treat worms that haven't already hatched and are inside their system.

Corid is a coccidiostat and not a wormer. You can provide a maintenance dose to mimic the effect of medicated feed while they acclimate to your environment, but if they get an overload you will still need to do a full round of treatment at the higher severe outbreak dosage.

 

[Eggcessive]

That is correct. Wormers will treat worms, but not prevent them from getting worms.

 

[Eggcessive]

Thank you! For two new girls to my flock...should I do both Safeguard and Corid?

If the girls are mature, they should have built up a resistance to coccidia. However if you see watery droppings and they are standing around puffed up, that can be a sign of coccidiosis, perhaps from a new strain they have been exposed to. I would probably worm the new birds though. Don’t eat their eggs for about 14 days after the last treatment.