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[koo2cat]

I received in the post today a 240g tub of Flubenvet so that I can worm my 6 girls. The insructions on the back of the tub just say that 120g will dose 100kg food and that you should give over 7 days!!

 

Am I being stupid or is that one hell of alot of food for 6 chickens over a week??

 

I realise I need to do the maths but not being the brightest bunny at that subject wonder if anyone out there has given Flubenvet to 6 hens and how they have given it. Do you put it in with their pellets or by some other means?

 

Many thanks in advance!!!

 

Edited to say - just found all the info I need on the Puolty Health pages of the forum - most informative - thanks guys!!!

[atsw]

If given according to the manufacturers instructions, it's 1 tsp powder to 4 kg feed. This ratio to be fed over 7 days. If you have some left over at the end of the 7 day, discard it. For those with only two or three hens, you mix 1/2 tsp with 2 kg food.

 

Give very little in the way of treats during the course, so that they eat predominantly the medicated pellets.

 

The other way of doing things, which I found works really well for our hens, it the 'grape method'. You cut a grape in half, and dip the cut edge in the Flubenvet powder. Then feed each hen with half a grape each day for 7 days. Because it's strong stuff, it's important that each hen only has half a grape each day. However, it's also important that each hen does get half a grape each day for the medication to be effective.

 

If you can't be sure to feed each hen independently via the 'grape method', then use a medicated batch of layer pellets.

 

Andrew

[quickcluck]

It is confusing

 

For my 6 girls I use about half a teaspoon a day and split that between enough grapes for them all. I cut them into 4 so that they can swallow them, othewise there tends to be a bit of wrestling going on and I can't keep a tag on who's had what I do it for 7 days and then every 3 months.

 

Hope that helps. I am sure someone else will be along shortly to put us both right if I've got it wrong