1. Flubendazole: safety regarding egg production and reproductive performance of breeder chickens.
- Author
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Froyman R and De Keyser H
- Subjects
- Animals, Antinematodal Agents therapeutic use, Ascaridiasis drug therapy, Ascaridiasis veterinary, Capillaria, Female, Food Additives, Male, Mebendazole analogs & derivatives, Mebendazole therapeutic use, Nematode Infections drug therapy, Nematode Infections veterinary, Oviposition drug effects, Poultry Diseases drug therapy, Reproduction drug effects, Safety, Antinematodal Agents pharmacology, Benzimidazoles pharmacology, Chickens physiology, Mebendazole pharmacology
- Abstract
In a comparative field trial, 5,950 meat breeder chickens were medicated via feed for 7 consecutive days with 60 ppm of the anthelmintic flubendazole. This treatment cured the birds of an infection with Ascaridia galli and Capillaria obsignata. A slight but transitory diarrhea was observed in treated chickens. The applied medication did not unfavorably affect egg production, fertility, or hatchability.
- Published
- 1983