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Do you use hors wormer??? or do you get this differently and how to you feed it to your birds? Sounds good to me as well.
Yes, I use the Safeguard horse paste. Kills ALL worms except tapes. Valbazen does kill all (including tapes) but I can't find it around here either. I need to get some ordered online. Safeguard is so easy to find, even our WalMart carries it. I give bantam sized chickens an oversized pea-sized drop. LF Cochin sized birds get about a 3/4" ribbon of the paste. It's really safe and difficult to overdose. Then re-dose them 10 days later.
Where do I get lime at??? I'd be interested in that. I had some 3 mo olds come down with e. coli and while I understand how e.coli is in all bird's bodies, I'd still feel better if I could just lime that entire run before putting anyone else there.
Edit, I do have 3 young turkeys (in another pen) so I sympathize with you about blackhead. It's always been a concern of mine and also one of the top reasons I make 200% sure all my other birds and my new birds stay wormed with Safeguard. I'm doing it 3 times a year. People can say what they want about wormers being 'dangerous chemicals' (they're not) but blackhead along with worms are a heck of a lot more dangerous.
Do you use hors wormer??? or do you get this differently and how to you feed it to your birds? Sounds good to me as well.
Yes, I use the Safeguard horse paste. Kills ALL worms except tapes. Valbazen does kill all (including tapes) but I can't find it around here either. I need to get some ordered online. Safeguard is so easy to find, even our WalMart carries it. I give bantam sized chickens an oversized pea-sized drop. LF Cochin sized birds get about a 3/4" ribbon of the paste. It's really safe and difficult to overdose. Then re-dose them 10 days later.
Where do I get lime at??? I'd be interested in that. I had some 3 mo olds come down with e. coli and while I understand how e.coli is in all bird's bodies, I'd still feel better if I could just lime that entire run before putting anyone else there.
Edit, I do have 3 young turkeys (in another pen) so I sympathize with you about blackhead. It's always been a concern of mine and also one of the top reasons I make 200% sure all my other birds and my new birds stay wormed with Safeguard. I'm doing it 3 times a year. People can say what they want about wormers being 'dangerous chemicals' (they're not) but blackhead along with worms are a heck of a lot more dangerous.
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