Cube mk2 and WIR

[cam1]

Hi sorry to be a pain but have searched around this and just want to get it right..being a bit of a div! I have some flubenvet 2.5%. Have taken on board that best to add to the pellets and give them this for a week then dispose of any remainder. I have 2 chickens and on the pot says 120 g per 100 kg feed

so from this i calculate to add 3g to 2.5 kg feed not sure how much my 2 get through as just put in 2 big scoops every couple of days. Is this right? I dont have to double the amount as there are 2 do i sorry to be a bit dense. We had a very ghostly whitey egg laid today which has a quite rough shell along with the normal brown i am assuming this is the wormy hen who i dont think has laid for days. Thanks for any help.

Cam

mya

velma

[freespiritbutterfly]

hi there i'm not sure if this is any help but a very kind omleteer sent me some of her spare flubenvet and said to add 1/4 of a teaspoon to the food per chicken for 7 days and she trusted that they each got them. I would try the grape trick it sounds a lot easier but i havent tried it yet because ive only had my girlies 2 weeks and the man from omlet said not to do for at least a year. Sorry i'm probs not much help but this is the only way i can get my head around the measurments.

 

Good luck

[earthmam1]

Hi

 

I used flubenvet in the middle of a grape and just made sure that my girls only got one grape each (if you see what I mean) . I just made a small hole in the middle and put a pinch in. Seemed to work ok . I think you are best to worm them every 3 months if they free range a lot

 

sue

[Steve.]

Prepare 0.875 kg of feed per chicken

 

So 0.875 kg * 3 = 2.6 kg of feed.

 

Include 1.2g of Flubenvet per 1 kg of feed, so in this case you'd use 3.15 grams of flubenvet.

 

If you don't have scales that accurate then hen one level teaspoonful (3.6g) per 3 kg of feed

 

I hope this helps.

[cam1]

thanks everyone

cam

mya

velma

[tootikki]

Just reading about worming - our girls have suddenly started eating more food more frantically - might be they need more energy to keep warm in this cold weather, but also wondering if they might have worms? I haven't seen any evidence but was considering giving a dose of flubenvet in case.

 

However, just read that Omlet advised not to use wormer until a year after receiving chickens - is that right? We have only had the girls for three months.

 

Any advice greatly appreciated !

[Sandychick]

so from this i calculate to add 3g to 2.5 kg feed not sure how much my 2 get through as just put in 2 big scoops every couple of days. Is this right? I dont have to double the amount as there are 2 do i sorry to be a bit dense.

 

I'm just about to flubenvet mine again. Usually I put it on sweetcorn but as it's so dark now, I don't always see them awake every day So, I'm going to mix it in with the feed this time - might actually be easier anyway.

 

I am also trying to figure out what weight of food they eat in 7 days, as I don't want to waste much They eat a scoop each a day (x 3 chickens), so I think I am going to measure out 21 scoops, find out what it weighs, and work backwards with the amount of Flubenvet needed.

 

I had not heard the advise about not worming chickens for the first year before?? Mine didn't have much choice as they had gapeworm in the first few weeks of arriving - they had a double dose at 20 weeks and there were no adverse effects.

[C&T]

We had to worm our Omlet chickens 4-6 weeks after arrival. One had runny pooh, and after trying everything else with her (garlic, bran etc) we wormed them - and the evidence left on the patio in the morning proved we were right to! Free ranging round the garden she had managed to pick up something...

[furryelephant]

We wormed our girls after about 4 months as they'd picked up some worms whilst wandering round the garden. We've just repeated it about 3 months later and they have had no ill effects. Better to worm them than leave them if you have any suspicion they've picked up some worms as a high worm count can kill them.

 

As for how to do it, I considered the weighed dose in the food but it seemed like a lot a faff for 2 hens... I just give them a tiny pinch on the end of a teaspoon popped inside a sultana.. make a cut/hole into the sultana with the end of a knife, dip the wrong end of a teaspoon into the powder and then transfer it into the sultana. You can then squash it back together and the stickiness of the sultana holds the powder in. Prepare one dosed sultana per hen and then it's easy to make sure each hen gets one sultana and one dose of powder... Job done!!

[tootikki]

Thanks for the tips - Our girls do free range all around the garden so could easily have picked up something - I've ordered the flubenvet + planning to try the 'sherbet dibdab' method with a mealworm (as that is their favourie treat!) or failing that a grape, they aren't keen on sultanas!

 

Thanks again for the help - will let you know how we get on!!

[tootikki]

Actually - just meant to ask - there were two options for the flubenvet - 1% and 2.5% which one did you use for the pinch method of dosing?

[Egluntyne]

I've never heard the "don't worm for the first year" thingy.

[tootikki]

I read it on the forum - but can I find it now - no ! It is somewhere amongst the pages of advice on worming or flubenvet, honest !!

Have dosed the girls this afternoon (after chasing the postman up the road to stop the flubenvet being returned to the post office!) - no wormy poos yet - are the results pretty quick or does it take the full 7 days to flush 'em out ??

 

Thanks

[tootikki]

False alarm - no worms! but at least I know how to worm them now!