Deworming Poultry - What You Need To Know - Sokies Feeds Limited

Most chickens have some worms, but it isn’t a problem until the chicken becomes overwhelmed with too many. Then it can cause health issues, decreased laying, and even death. ? Deworming chickens isn’t difficult, but the tricky part is deciding if your flock needs dewormed or not!

Chickens can get more worms by pecking at poop that has worm eggs or larvae in it. If you pen your chickens in the same area, over time the total number of worms in that pen (and in your chickens!) will increase.

Layer birds a meant to be dewormed at exactly 8 weeks, here we expect a flood of worms to have accumulated in birds given the previous exposures to different environmental conditions.

Repeat monthly at least every 4 weeks but never exceed 6 weeks wen u have not repeated the deworming, simply because the time taken for worms to re accumulate in a bird following deworming is 6 weeks. Doing t at every after 4 weeks is best.

Choice of dewormer to use

There is trouble here, Poultry dewormers a in 2 lines, levamisole line and piperazine line.
Ensure you deworm your birds with piperazine citrate and later alternate between levamisole dewormers.
Note that once you use a piperazine dewormer u may not need to repeat it again, its longevity is long.

1. On market the piperazine rich dewormers include.
   Piperin
   Piperamentric
   Ascarex.

Then levacide for levamisole. Please use dosages as instructed by manufacturers.

The fallacy of levamisole cutting eggs, cool it with a vitamin follow up say APSA AMNOVIT.

Use of albendazole and a dewormer
ALBAFAS can as well b used as a dewormer but has one or 2 challenges, wenever u use t please mind about dosage, low dosages a recommended,
Give IT time to mix well with water since it’s slightly insoluble in water.

THINGS LIKE WORMS SHOULD NOT B A BURDEN TO UR FARMS.EASY TO HANDLE AND GET RID OF THEM.

Also Read

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• Layer Farm Management