Solitary chicken - need advice

[gonetoearth]

Help please I need some worming advice.

 

I have a chicken who has what looks like worms in her droppings (dead). She seems not quite upto her usual self, she's not laying and is giving me a little bit of concern. (She's a just over 1 year old Barnvelder) I've checked everything else out that I can think of and have found no other clues as to why she's seems off colour. All my girls free-range.

 

The thing is that I 'vermxed' all of my chickens last week and I'm starting to think, like most folk here, that it hasn't isn't effective.

 

So, the question is; can I now dose them with Flubenvet without doing them any harm so soon after the Vermx? or is there some specific time I should wait before I can do this? I can see on the tub that Vermx is just a herbal tonic to discourage parasites.... but .... is there anything else I should know?

 

Thank you for any advice you can give me.

[gavclojak]

From what I understood from my vet it should be fine to use flubenvet, I used flubenvet and saw a few worms in the droppings so used it again five weeks later, isn't vermex just a gut conditioner? My vet is always horrified when people use it as a wormer!

FYI although I saw worms I wasn't sure which of my 5 or if all had worms, but they were very well in themselves but i do understand with a heavy infestation they can become susceptible to opportunistic illnesses. If I were you and you have seen worms I would worm now and in 5 weeks and use a ground sanitiser. Hope that helps

[gonetoearth]

Thank you that's really helpful.

[The Dogmother]

Do bear in mind that the presence/absence of worms in the droppings isn't a reliable indicator of their worm load; you should worm quarterly (or at least twice a year) with Flubenvet regardless.

 

Flubenvet is the only licensed (and very effective) poultry wormer, there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't use it after using Verm-X as the latter isn't a wormer, as gavclojak has said..