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Quote: How often you worm your birds depends on your soil conditions. Warm moist or wet soil and/or chickens kept on the same soil will require frequent wormings. Dry, cool/cold soil may require less wormings as well as rocky or mountainous or desertlike soil. I worm my birds every 2-3 months...

If you gave safeguard 5 days straight already, you're finished worming.

This occured awhile back: I had read that vanilla Christmas tree car deodorizers which are hung from the rear view mirror in a car deters flies in chicken pens/coops. I went and bought a pack at our local auto parts store and hung them around the coop. Sure enough they seemed to work well. You...

Trimming back fluff and feathers on the rear end virtually eliminates fly strike. Dont trim back too close though. Excretions drop straight down onto the soil. During hot temps, birds drink alot of water and you'll observe watery power squirts. It's a good idea to occasionally provide...

They are maggots.

Albendazole is in the class of benzimidazoles which when administered, mainly pass through the digestive tract and excreted. It has a half life of 12 hours, and breaks down further half life's to the point that benzimidazoles are no longer in the system after 72 hours. The dosage is given to...

LOL thanks! I wont be leaving the U.S. anymore. I was in the Navy and our ship pulled into Haifa on 3 different occasions during our cruise in the mid 80's. I drank alot of Maccabbee beer at the bars at Mt Carmel. Fun times and very friendly Israeli's who made us feel at home. Haifa was...

Once DE becomes wet, it loses its dessication and cutting abilities until it dries. But it is abrasive when wet. A good example is toothpaste; it has DE in it and is abrasive, but no cutting ability. The abrasiveness wont cut into internal parasites. If a chicken ate enough DE in its feed, it...

I used DE a long time ago, guess what? My birds still got worms. DE is ineffective as a worm preventative and wormer. It is ineffective when wet because it absorbs moisture. Inside the chickens innards, it is wet and ineffective. It can adversely effect the air sacs when breathed causing...

Hopefully not all your guinea fowl have such a horrible worm infestation like the one you slaughtered. Piperazine works if you start using it early when your fowl are 8 to 10 weeks old, then worm monthly. Unfortunately using piperazine monthly will cause worm resistance within a one years time...

Great pic! Spagetti dinner mmmmmm

When you see worms in feces, internal damage has already been done. It also means that there's an infestation and there's no other place to go but out the rear end. Poultry worms are host specific. Humans have their own worms. An exception would be hookworms. IF your birds are somehow infected...

Quote: As you know, chickens are experts at hiding health problems as not to be eaten by predators...instinct for survival. By the time we see symptoms of whatever the problem is, it requires treatment. Otherwise the chickens health will deteriorate and/or will have to be culled to protect...

I live in northeast Florida. We get alot of rain and our soil is warm most of the year. I worm my birds once every 3 months at a minimum, sometimes sooner. I mainly use valbazen and safeguard liquid goat wormer, and have used pyrantel pamoate and wazine infrequently. If my birds get tapeworms, I...

Your soil determines when and how often you should worm your birds. Warm moist or wet soil requires frequent wormings. Soil that is cool/cold, rocky or hot dry desertlike may require less frequent wormings. Birds kept on the same soil should be wormed on a regular basis. Birds infested with...