I was at my local bird shop today where I regularly buy my seed and I happened to ask the attendant if they sell Ivermectin.

He told me that Ivermectin was not good for birds because there is a high risk of killing them if you add more than a drop. He then presented me with a bottle of Moxidectin and told me this is what I need to use, to add it to their water.

Is this a suitable/effective substitute for Ivermectin?

What are your thoughts?

Moxydectin is virtually the same thing. My vet bottles it up and its sold under the same banner as ivermectin and for the same reasons and use. I have used it many times myself.

More than one drop of ivermectin does not kill a bird as I have done sometimes up to 3-4 drops using the wrong equipment.

Might kill a 15-20 gram pet size budgie of the dosage is for a 30 gram budgie but I doubt that too as its also been used on the preening gland of baby budgies in nestboxes will no deaths. I would suggest any birds that died after being dosed by ivermectin may have succumbed to the stress of being caught and held more than due to the meds

Edited June 24, 201015 yr by KAZ