Paprika?? Does it work?

I believe that the paprika and any of the red caspium peppers increase the metabolisim, increase the autoimmune system, and peppers have a large amount of vit C, so it will help prevent them, just like eating healthy will help you prevent disease, but it is not completely reliable. 

not completely sure about the dosages, timing, and other.  i'm due for my 1st worming here soon and I've been looking into the natural stuff myself :)

No it will not work.  You need to buy a proper de wormer to be sure to kill the worms.

Are you birds sick?  Why are they having antibiotic boosters and vitamin boosters?

I never think its a good idea to over medicate. My flock have never been wormed or had any other medicine (apart from vasoline when some got mild scaly leg).  I have never lost one to disease or illness in 5 years, and they are all fat, healthy, free ranging chickens that lay lots of eggs.

Do it will not do the birds any harm to feed them that.  I understand now about the medication.  

Do you know that when people want to go on a diet and loose weight they can eat chillies and paprika too as it boosts the metabolism.  I tried it once, but it had no effect on me.  In fact I now am hooked on chillies and eat lots of spicy food........but am getting fatter!

Oh forgot to say that I used to work in a pet store and we sold wild bird seed.  This seed had paprika added to it.  It smelt lovely.  The birds can not taste it, but its added to prevent the squirrels eating it. Apparently the squirrels don't like the hot spicy taste.  

I wish my chickens would eat ants.  There is a big ant trail that comes over the wall and down into the run.  The ants are drinking the chickens water.  I think my chickens are too fat and used to their expensive chicken feed to want to eat the ants. 

Paprika (US English) is made from peppers with very low capsaicin %. That is why paprika is not hot. Almost everywhere else in the world paprika is any ground red pepper. So it can range from mild to extremely hot. It the US we break it out to things like chili powder, paprika and cayenne/red pepper. If you are going to try this you should use the hottest pepper you can find, which will probably be cayenne. Also don't worry about the hotness bothering the chickens. No bird has the receptors for capsaicin. The theory is that the plants developed capsaicin to ward off mammals. Also if you think about it, why would you have your fruit so hot that nothing would eat it if you produce fruits to help disperse seeds.

I have my doubts that this will do any good though. I don't know if parasites have these receptors either. So I think it may not affect them at all either. But you never know until you try.

If this works, just plant some cayenne peppers in your garden and feed them to the chickens.