I am convinced they are, as from my experience chicks that are hatched from my own well adjusted blood lines prove to be more robust and even somewhat resistant to coccidiosis and the local Marek strains whereas chicks that hatched from eggs acquired from other breeders seem to have a harder...
'Prophylactic treatment' with dewormers would only work for ingested worm eggs that then can be prevented from developing into worms.
Other than that for me the only ways to reduce internal parasite pressure would be
to rotate pasture meaning they should not be kept on the same grounds all the...
Regarding the claim of 'not deadly' I have to add that prior to my early deworming practice I lost young chicks to 'unknown causes' and had them necropsied by the
https://www.tiho-hannover.de/kliniken-institute/kliniken/klinik-fuer-gefluegel.
The results came back as
#death by capillaria...
Ever since I started to worm my broody hatched and raised chicks early at about 6-7 weeks of age they don't grow apart anymore and seem to be less prone to coccidiosis.
Many years ago before I started to practice early deworming, I used to deworm the youngsters first time at about 19 weeks of...