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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: harry on August 30, 2011, 09:36:50 pm

Title: worming ducks
Post by: harry on August 30, 2011, 09:36:50 pm

i read somewhere never to use chicken wormer on ducks ...... i was going to buy a bag of layers feed with wormer already in, .......is duck wormer different

Title: Re: worming ducks
Post by: Hopewell on August 30, 2011, 11:57:08 pm

We've used chicken wormer (flubenvet) on ducks with no problem. The one chicken thing you definitely can't give ducks is chick feed that has a coccidiostat in it.

Title: Re: worming ducks
Post by: northfifeduckling on August 31, 2011, 07:04:59 am

I asked the vet before using flubenvet for my ducks and she said it's fine. Might be worth emailing Marriages about their medicated feed?  :&>

Title: Re: worming ducks
Post by: harry on August 31, 2011, 08:57:06 am

Perhaps you are correct....it may have been chick feed i read about??????????

Title: Re: worming ducks
Post by: northfifeduckling on August 31, 2011, 11:47:10 am

chick crumbs are often medicated and bad for ducklings, maybe that was it? :&>