The Poultry Keeper

Bendix01 · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject: Flubenvet

One for George.

Wheer can I get Flubenvet in small quantities? Do your general pet shops have it/ order it do you think.

I cant keep popping round urs for bags of stuff as I am moving in 3 weeks.

Steve

Lisa · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject:

<pretending to be George>

Nope, you can only buy the big tubs of the stuff that treat 100s of birds.

And since Oct 2005 it has been reclassified, which means slightly less places can sell it Confused

Now they have to have a "suitably qualified person" (whatever one of those is).

I gave a load of mine away - knowing I would never use it within the best by date... waste not, want not etc.

You can sometimes find pellets for sale with it already mixed in, which is another way to buy it.

<no more pretending>

Heather · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject:

Lisa your giving away benefitted me - thanks

Belinda sent me home with several bags of white powder - very carefully labelled in case I got stopped on the motorway !!! Shocked

Lisa · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:10 pm Post subject:

ROFLMAO!! (sorry, visions of you getting pulled over trying to explain UN-labelled bags!!) Laughing

What can I say - glad its found a good home - and don't sniff it all at once Rolling Eyes

summayah · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 4289 Location: luton

You could try somthing other than flubenvet. There is a more natural product on the market called Verm-X. I've never used it but apparently it works really well and is sold in smaller quantities ~ there is some sort of a disenser which gives the exact amount which is then put in their drinking water (or the other way round to be precise powder first water second). There is also no egg withdrawal period. I know someone who has used it and she was very happy with it ~ here the web address www.verm-x.com .

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7424 Location: isle of lewis

sorry not george Confused

but got mine from the domestic fowl trust
i think it was 14 pounds for a tub and the expiry date was 2009 Shocked

this was a few weeks ago as we started keeping turkeys Smile

phone no was if i'm allowed to
01386 833364
hope this helps
suz

George · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 5661 Location: London

If you have time to pop around I can sort you out with some

Very Happy

stephen · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject:

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7424 Location: isle of lewis

just trying to be good ,i do try sometimes carn't keep it up for long though
suz

Heather · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject:

Bendix01 · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject:

HeatherBB · Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 154 Location: Chelmsford

stephen · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:46 am Post subject:

That must be a recent change, if it's true, as we were able to purchase it just 2 weeks ago. I suppose our local country store may be an approved supplier.

Lisa · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:08 am Post subject:

The rules changed a bit last year. Discussion about it here:

http://forum.downsizer.net/viewtopic.php?t=9521

An egg withdrawl period is the amount of time you shouldn't eat eggs from birds when they are on some medications. Some meds, eg antibiotics, also need a time after you stop using them too, to allow the drugs to get completely out of the chickens system before we start eating the eggs.

Used at the correct amount there is no egg withdrawl period with Flubenvet.

Some vets have recommended Flubenvet used at twice the normal dose if, and only if, there is an infection with a particular type of worm. But this is not standard use and because of the higher dose there is (IIRC) a 7 day egg withdrawl then.