Description
This worming treatment has no egg withholding period.
Yes, you can keep eating the eggs đ
Flubenol⢠5% contains flubendazole, a broad-spectrum anthelmintic with high efficacy against all gastrointestinal worm species that commonly occur in poultry. It is effective against roundworms (Ascaridia galli, Heterakis gallinarum, Capillaria spp., Amidostomum anseris and Trichostrongylus tenuis), gapeworm (Syngamus trachea) and tapeworms (Raillietina sp.).
Its safety profile allows a safe and secure use in most poultry species, including the breeding stock. Flubenol is a tasteless powder which is added to dry feed.Â
Dosage for chickens/turkeys/geese/partridge and pheasants.
Dosage rate:
To treat your flock mix the powder thoroughly into the feed and feed it for seven consecutive days. It needs to be thoroughly mixed through the pellets or dry mash. (Do not just sprinkle on top.)
- To treat a large flock (22-25 hens) mix 15g (3 teaspoons) into 21.5kg feed for chickens and geese or for a smaller flock (7-8 hens) 5g (one teaspoon) per 7kg feed. (please check the recommended daily ration on your feed bag to determine the exact amount).
- To treat pheasants and partridge mix 15g (3 teaspoons) with 11kg feed.
- To treat turkeys mix 15g (3 teaspoons) in with 32kg feed.
In case of infestation with tapeworm, double the dose for seven consecutive days.
Do not use this product to treat pigeons or parrots.
How to dose:
- Calculate what 1 hen eats daily.
- The best way to do this is to look at the bag of layer feed you are using which will indicate the recommended daily feed ration on the back. For Weston Layer feed it is app. 130g per day per hen.Â
- Count the number of hens in your flock (best to treat everyone).
- Multiply the number of hens by the daily ration for one hen.
- This total will indicate how much feed your flock eats in a day.
- Then multiply this number by seven (the number of days you will be treating)
- If using an auto feeder empty the feeder and fill it with the calculated amount of medicated feed for the week. (If your calculations are correct then this quantity should feed them for the week)Â
- Â Let your hens self-help for seven days.
- Â On the eighth day remove and empty the feeder.
- Replace with non-medicated fresh feed.
For best results we recommend sanitising/ cleaning your hen house at the same time using Poultry Safeguard.
For more info on deworming your flock read here.
Follow up Treatment
All poultry worms have a life cycle of between 2 to 7 weeks. It is really important to break this life cycle so a repeat treatment should be administered within the pre-patient period of the worm/s (PPP). The PPP is the time period in days from worm egg ingestion by the chicken until the adult worm starts producing eggs in the chicken and sheds these eggs into the environment. When dealing with specific problem worm species, we always consider the PPP of the worm in question, because you want to try and keep your Flubenol treatment interval just shorter than this time period, so that you effectively prevent further contamination of the environment with worm eggs, and thereby just continue the infective cycle.
So for instance with normal large roundworm (Ascarid) infection, a longer treatment interval of around 5-6 weeks is what we suggest (the life cycle or PPP of this worm species is the longest of all the commonly found poultry worms). However, with Gapeworm, the PPP is around 2-3 weeks. So to effectively control the burden for this worm species we recommend following up with another treatment 2 weeks after completion of the first.
We recommend doing a follow-up treatment of Flubenol within the PPP for the worm you are treating.
The good news - no withholding period for eggs and meat for poultry.
Symptoms following overdosing: Flubenol 5% is non-toxic; even considerable overdosing does not produce side effects. In poultry, even three times the highest dose for seven days had no negative effects on egg production, egg quality, hatching results and growth of offspring.
Treatment with Flubenol can only be effective if the hygiene of pig pens and poultry housing is observed.
Available in a 600g tub and in smaller sachets for treating smaller flocks.
Treatment for Pigs
Flubenol is effective against the mature and immature larvae and eggs of the following species of worm: Large Roundworm, Red Stomach Worm, Nodular Worm Lungworm, Threadworm and Whipworm.
Individual treatment: (Single administration).
Add 1 g of Flubenol for each 10 kg bodyweight onto the finished feed. (This is equivalent to 5 mg of flubendazole per one kg bodyweight). One 13 g measuring spoon treats one 130 kg sow.
An easy way of administering the dose is to add it to a buttered bread roll and feed it to your pig.
Treat twice a year unless recommended otherwise by your veterinary surgeon. Pigs brought onto the premises should be treated on arrival and before mixing with other animals. Animals must not be slaughtered for human consumption within 7 days of treatment.
