Tapeworms??

[Goat Freak]

Okay, to make a LOOOOOOONG story short, I have cats in my chicken coop. They don't hurt the chickens and the chickens don't hurt them, but they do live together. Anyway, I just found out that the cats apparently have tapeworms, I don't know who had tapeworms first, the cats or the chickens. I actually don't know if my chickens even have tapeworms, but since the cats do, I'm pretty sure the chickens do, which means that my cows and goats probably have tapeworms because they eat grass that the chickens have been on too, and that means that my dog probably has tapeworms because he is disgusting and likes to eat cow turds. So my question is this, is there one type of tapeworm medicine that would cure all these different types of animals??? And if not, what kind of tapeworm medicine would be the most effective in cows? Thanks in advance. Bye.

[B Adams]

Panacur/Safeguard (fenbendazole) suspension double dose will get tapeworms in cattle. Retreat in 4-6 weeks. Tapeworms in cattle is named moniezia benedeni. That would be a 10mg/kg dose.

I am not sure if they can get tapeworms from cats, I believe those are different species-either taenia taeniaeformis and dipylidium canium. To be safe ask your vet.

B Adams

[Goat Freak]

Thank you, I'll make sure to ask my vet.

[Onthebit]

While it isn't the same problem, I just read that coccidiosis can be transfered from chickens to cattle. Is this true? My chickens are all over the place. And I have a cow almost ready to calf that is in the barn and the chickens AND turkeys like to hang w her.

[Goat Freak]

I just found out that my chickens don't have tapeworms, because chickens can't get tapeworms from eating tapeworm segments. Which means that none of my other animals are infected, since the cats are only allowed in the chicken coop. Thanks for all the info.

BTW: Onthebit, I googled coccidiosis tranfer between chickens and cattle, and everything was in a foreign language that I couldn't read, or the information wasn't relevant, Good Ol' Google.

Bye.

[LizD]

'Onthebit' , coccidiosis is species specific, it doesn't cross contaminate. Coccidiosis can be pretty ubiquitous for everthing though and your adult cow may carry the protezoa and be fine with the 'load' che carries but a calf with a different digestive system wouldn't be fine and would be exposed through the dam. It takes three weeks for the protazoa to incubate so even if exposed at birth, the calf would be 3 weeks old before it is noticable or can be treated. Watch his/her poop and treat if necessary. L ps could of asked!