Single hen

[HENthusiastic]

Hi guys,

I've been searching "panacur" and am totaly confused!

Ive read about people giving a certain dose 3 days running. Others say one dose and then another a week later. Lots of people are talking about 10% panacur though.

 

Can anybody help please? I've got "Panacur 2.5% oral suspension for small animals".

 

(As far as I know "Ooops, word censored!"ody has got worms, I'm just wanting to get into a healthy regieme of regular de-worming).

 

Thanks in advance

[The Dogmother]

The version that my vet recommended to me is the 10% suspension. you need 1ml per kg of bird and give two doses one week apart.

 

Make sure that you shake it up well HEN and syringe it carefully into their beaks.

 

*this product is not licenced for use on poultry in the UK*

[HENthusiastic]

Thanks Claret. I guess I'll give my 2.5% to the next door neibours for their cats (one of them has just had a £110 vets bill for stitches to the leg, so it'll help them save a few pennys).

I shall get on tinternet and find myself some 10%.

Thanks for your help.

[The Dogmother]

Some pharmacies stock it tooo HEN, our local one does and it's £14.49 for 100ml. If that's a saving on the online price and P&P then let me know because I'll get some for you and send it over.

[HENthusiastic]

£13.95 from Hyperdrug including delivery. Thanks very much though Claret, thats very kind of you to offer

[The Dogmother]

That's a darned good price Hon, well done. Don't forget to get a kiddies' dosing syringe from the chemist.

 

Just make sure that they don't shake their heads when you're dosing them, or you and OH will be covered in yukky white stuff!

[SillyClucker]

I used panacur but now use flubenvet because its so much easier!

[Charlottechicken]

Hmm, they appear to sell it in granule form too, is that any good

[The Dogmother]

Hmm, they appear to sell it in granule form too, is that any good

 

Never used it TBH. I find the Panacur (*not licenced for use on poultry in the UK*) so easy to use; it's broader spectrum too.

 

All mine are up for their worming and anti-lice treatments this weekend. Two of them have dirty bottoms, so I suspect worms, and those girls will get the bidet treatment too.

[mostin]

, and those girls will get the bidet treatment too.

 

[Ardene5]

Hi Everyone,

We have just read this thread with interest and shall be seen if our local chemist stocks it.

Is the any special name it is known as at the chemists?

Thank you.

 

Best regards

 

Ian & Valerie

[The Dogmother]

Just Panacur 10% Ian

 

Not every chemist has vet meds though.

[SillyClucker]

When we gave our chooks Panacur the vet said it was 1ml per day per chook for 5 days and then after a further 5 days one more dose. This was using the 10% solution.

 

Frankly, having to go out in the pouring rain, catch chickens so that you can syringe a liquid down there throats is far more disruptive for you and the chickens than adding a small amount of Flubenvet to their feed.

 

Chris

 

edit/ we could only get Panacur from the vets btw

[dancing cloud]

Reading with interest - can you just add panacur to their food, like flubenvet, or must it be syringed in? My little monsters are greedy enough to eat almost anything and run like the wind if I even look like I'm thinking about picking them up . I'm not sure I'd win if it came to mud-wrestling to try and get it down their necks - think I'd end up wearing most of it!

[The Dogmother]

You could add it to their food I guess, but then the dosage would be a bit hit and miss.

 

I have a dozen hens, and I wait until they've gone to bed and are dozy and then dose them - no catching or ruffling of feathers involved... all nice and calm and no need to go out in the rain if you don't want to. I just pick a nice evening and pop out with my headlamp torch on.

[HENthusiastic]

WEll, all chooks given 1ml of 10% last night when all tucked up asleep. I will be doing the same again next Sunday evening. . (2% given to the neigbours!)

In my experience, having to make sure each girl eats a grape with a pinch of flubenvet on it was FAR more hassle. Especially when mine are such greedy gutses and I have ALWAYS ended up with some chickens having 2 or 3 doses and others missing! I also found that it was actually quite hard to find 7 days in a row when I was home each evening (or morning) in order to do it. It took me quite a while.

A quick dose down the beak at night time, much easier for me. (But then I have had a good lesson from the vet re syringing, so me and OH are quite confident at it).

[The Dogmother]

It's easy once you have a system, isn't it?

 

We have this routine; catch chicken, inspect top half, spot lice stuff on neck and Panacur down throat, turn her over, check under carriage and spray with mite spray if necessary. Treat chook with corn or wheat. It took us just 20 minutes to do the whole lot of them on Sunday morning, and I'll repeat the process at the weekend.

[SillyClucker]

right I'm confused now. The vet defo said 5 days on the trot and then one more dose on the 10th day to me.

[HENthusiastic]

Have you maybe got a different strength potion?? Or were you upping the dose to treat a different kind of work?? Only guesses.

[The Dogmother]

Next time I see my vet, I'll check for you, but I have it written on the box from when I last got it.

[SillyClucker]

Have you maybe got a different strength potion?? Or were you upping the dose to treat a different kind of work?? Only guesses.

 

OK the vet defo said as i previously said cos its on the sticky label he put on the box (10% liquid). However the instructions on the bottle differ. Firstly chickens aren't covered on the dosage instructions but puppies and kittens are, which is as close as we're going to get. The dose is 1ml/2kg of body weight for 3 consecutive days. Nothing about a follow up dose a week later. The only thing i can say is that we followed the vets instructions and the chooks are fine.

 

We went onto using Flubenvet because the only time my wife and i were together to do the job was first thing in the morning before we went to work. We got back from work at different times after the chooks had gone to bed and didn't want to disturb them. When it was raining and we had to wade thru the mud that used to be our garden it just got too much first thing. It is a 2 person job if you're not going to distress them too much.

 

Flubenvet is dead easy and i accept that some might get more than others but it seems to have been effective thus far. I dose on a regular basis maybe increasing the frequency slightly over the summer months when the worms are more active.