Worming chicken with ivermectin... doses

[Rottie6868]

Hello

I am looking for the ivermectin 5% cattle pour on dose for chickens. Everything I read says drops. I am not sure what you all mean by.
is the does for a regular size sex link hen1/2cc (.5 CC)?
I gave my rooster .5cc of injectable ivermectin 1%

thank you

 

[casportpony]

Ivermectin is not a good poultry de-wormer, but it will kill lice. If you want to use the pour on cattle stuff, give no less than 0.05 ml per pound of bodyweight. That is the minimum amount, any less will not be effective. The amount I use is 0.1 ml per pound of bodyweight.

This should be given topically, never orally.
Note that the pour on cattle stuff is 0.05%, not 5%.

 

[Rottie6868]

Ok, ivermectin pour on us the best for worming peafowl I thought it was the best for chickens as well.
what do you recommend for worming chickens?

thanks so much

 

[casportpony]

It's not good for peafowl either. It will treat large roundworms, might treat cecal worm, but it will not treat capillary worms or gapeworms.

 

[dawg53]

Through my use of Ivermectin pour on years ago, it wont treat large roundworms.

 

[ChickensRsmart]

Ivermectin is not a good poultry de-wormer, but it will kill lice. If you want to use the pour on cattle stuff, give no less than 0.05 ml per pound of bodyweight. That is the minimum amount, any less will not be effective. The amount I use is 0.1 ml per pound of bodyweight.

This should be given topically, never orally.
Note that the pour on cattle stuff is 0.05%, not 5%.

I realize this is an old thread, but it's directly relevant to my question. My hen has poultry lice (Pacific North West species). I've given her a bath with dawn dish soap, applied DE a few times (which does help but doesn't eradicate them), and I've even applied a mixture of dish soap and water with Neem oil... All these remedies help, but in spite of cleaning her coop out every few days removing feathers as they're plucked out (my rooster has them now too), the problem remains.
So, I purchased a small bottle of Durvet Ivermectin Pour On for cattle (5mg per mL) and I've weighed my birds in order to calculate the dosages. But then I read that Ivermectin pour on won't work for body lice on chickens since the lice don't feed on the blood of the birds - instead eating the dander in their feathers?
I don't want to treat them with this stuff unless I know it will work? Can you tell me if Ivermectin will work for lice that don't feed on blood via the skin of the chickens?

 

[casportpony]

I realize this is an old thread, but it's directly relevant to my question. My hen has poultry lice (Pacific North West species). I've given her a bath with dawn dish soap, applied DE a few times (which does help but doesn't eradicate them), and I've even applied a mixture of dish soap and water with Neem oil... All these remedies help, but in spite of cleaning her coop out every few days removing feathers as they're plucked out (my rooster has them now too), the problem remains.
So, I purchased a small bottle of Durvet Ivermectin Pour On for cattle (5mg per mL) and I've weighed my birds in order to calculate the dosages. But then I read that Ivermectin pour on won't work for body lice on chickens since the lice don't feed on the blood of the birds - instead eating the dander in their feathers?
I don't want to treat them with this stuff unless I know it will work? Can you tell me if Ivermectin will work for lice that don't feed on blood via the skin of the chickens?

I just treated a friend's peahen with ivermectin that was infested with lice. It took about a week, but it did work.

For your hen I suggest Permethrin spray or dust, both will kill all lice in less that 24 hours

 

[ChickensRsmart]

I just treated a friend's peahen with ivermectin that was infested with lice. It took about a week, but it did work.

For your hen I suggest Permethrin spray or dust, both will kill all lice in less that 24 hours

Thanks - and thanks again for the fast reply.

Will Permethrin kill the eggs too? I've been spraying dish soap and water on her and it kills the lice instantly - but clearly not the eggs.

 

[Folly's place]

Repeat treatments kill the newly hatched lice or mites; nothing safe will kill the eggs. Permethrin spray or dust works fine, and repeat in seven to ten days at least once. Dish soap has no residual action, and the permethrin does.
Mary

 

[ChickensRsmart]

Repeat treatments kill the newly hatched lice or mites; nothing safe will kill the eggs. Permethrin spray or dust works fine, and repeat in seven to ten days at least once. Dish soap has no residual action, and the permethrin does.
Mary

Thanks FP. I will get some Permethrin - spray would be preferred if I can find it in that form locally.