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We’ve wormed our birds and I’m just curious why we can’t feed them back to the birds? If we can dose them directly why would the minimal amount of residue in bloodstream that could potentially reach the egg affect the birds?

Didn’t consider that! Yes it sure was a task working 34 birds with a hostile rooster around. The older he gets the harder time I’m having being close to his ladies. He is almost 1. If he has flogged my children and husband within the last week. Never me. But today he gave me some warnings. I can...

I waited and never saw any more worms until last week, a broody bird. So I got my hands on some Valbazen. I did their first dose this morning when I let them out. We usually get 21-24 eggs a day. We only got 17 today. Could the dewormer have caused the drop in production?

Can anyone chime in about the feather damage side effect from safeguard? There is a significant cost difference and we have our tightest budget yet this month due to holiday cost. I’d save $30 doing the safeguard. My birds went through a very soft molt. Just feathers here and there. When I look...

Thank you! Could the worms or their eggs be IN the chickens eggs? 🤢

I will see if I can pick it up at TS tomorrow. I ordered the safeguard pellets off Amazon but wouldn’t be here until Saturday. I would imagine they have some newly erupted quills as the molt was hardly recognized more than a few days other than one bird who had funny spots all over. About a...

Ugh. Hardly a year in and we’ve had sour crop, rounds and rounds of bubble foot, molting, and now this morning I found a VERY soft egg under the roosting bar and then just found a soft poo with 2 worms in it. They hopped up on an old brooder coop that they perch on sometimes. Clearly worms. Is...