using flubenvet

[clucking chicks]

Please can you guys help with some advise about giving my girls flubenvet? When I bought the wormer, the ladies at the vet did not know anything about it (!) so were unable to help.

Can I give it to my girls with pellets and how can I make sure they have each had the correct amount each day? One chicken may gobble more than her share from the feeder!!

Please help!

 

[Marigold]

There is an article about using Flubenvet in the Chickens Health section, in the subsection about medications, at http://bit.ly/yZVKpd and also quite lot of threads and posts on using it. Basically you weigh out a kilo of pellets, remove a small quantity of them, adda little cod liver oil or vegetable oil and stir well. This is to help the powder to stick to the pellets. Add the amount of Flubenvet that is recommended for treating 1 kilo of food and stir well. Gradually mix in the rest of the pellets, stirring well as you do so. Shut the chickens up for the week of the treatment, feeding only the pellets and no treats. If you do this, they will each eat pellets according to their appetites and assuming they are healthy and eating normally this will be sufficient for each of them. If you run out of treated pellets, mix up some more - after the first kilo has gone you'll have a better idea how much more you'll need to mix.

If you have a sick or poorly chicken she may need treating individually by the 'treat method' to ensure she gets enough medication to do the job, but I'm assuming all yours are basically OK and can have the medication by the normal method recommended by the manufacturer. Yoy can buy Marriages pre-treated pellets but with only a few birds a lot will be left over and wasted by going out of date before the next treatment in 6 months time. It's pretty easy to mix your own and your hens don't have to adapt to a new sort of feed.

 

[clucking chicks]

Thank you Marigold!
No couscous for the girls tomorrow then. Just yummy pellets, cod liver oil and flubenvet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[chrismahon]

I prefer Olive Oil to mix it myself because of the taste as I don't want to put them off eating the treated pellets. Haven't tried Cod Liver Oil though.

 

[valeriebutterley]

I have just bought 20 kilo of Marriages layers with Flubenvet, £18.20, delivered to the door, from Marriages.
It saves a lot of trouble with measuring. I'm sure a smaller size would have done, but there you go.
Just feed the pellets for 7 days, and hopefully job done.
I did it before, late Autumn, very painless, but some of my girls are looking a bit cheerless and peaky, so hopefully worming may do the trick.

 

[chrismahon]

You can get 10Kg bags Valerie, but they cost a tiny bit more for 20Kg. We've just had 4 x 10Kg bags delivered. The Yodel delivery men complained that they had been driving around with them for two days trying to deliver. The boxes both had a large label on the front which said 'If no -one in leave behind front door in porch' which they hadn't noticed!!!

 

[foxy]

I prefer Olive Oil to mix it myself because of the taste as I don't want to put them off eating the treated pellets. Haven't tried Cod Liver Oil though.

I use a little cod liver oil, it has the added benefit this time of year of helping hens utilise their calcium, through vit A +D, bit like sunshine in a bottle! Worth noting not too much because too much vit A will not be healthy for them.
I use it once a week (roughly 1 tblspn to 3kg feed)from Dec through to Feb and then rely the natural sunlight and young grass in spring 17

 

[kegs]

I prefer Olive Oil to mix it myself because of the taste as I don't want to put them off eating the treated pellets. Haven't tried Cod Liver Oil though.

I use a little cod liver oil, it has the added benefit this time of year of helping hens utilise their calcium, through vit A +D, bit like sunshine in a bottle! Worth noting not too much because too much vit A will not be healthy for them.
I use it once a week (roughly 1 tblspn to 3kg feed)from Dec through to Feb and then rely the natural sunlight and young grass in spring 17

The was something in a recent Practical Poultry mag saying that chicken keepers from way back when would use Cod Liver Oil every winter for their chickens and it was known as 'Liquid sunshine'. That was in the days though when it was religiously given to children too 11 . I've got a Hipswell Sussex who only laid softies and no matter how much oyster shell she had nothing worked until I started adding a small amount of Cod Liver Oil to it which did the trick.

 

[valeriebutterley]

Hello Kegs,
I have often wondered about CLO, as all my girls GO GO GO for tuna!
I have a v. elderly, but very fit and totally beautiful ex-battery Warren, who has always tended to lay huge soft shelled eggs, and then being a totally practical lady, eat them.......
Her calcium deficiency is obviously within herself, she used to lay pale eggs like the planet Saturn, with a huge ring in the middle, but nothing seemed to cure the soft shell problem. Now thanks to you, I have a clue, will give CLO a go in the future.