Laying Hens/Worm Medicine?

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I saw on their website that VermX is now available in the US.
Yesterday I emailed the person listed as the US contact (Karen Jenne) and I just got an email from her with the price list and web brochure this evening.

http://www.vermx.com/International Distributors.htm

I just thought I would pass this on to anyone interested.

That's wonderful that it's available in the US. Thanks to jacy & kel for the info.

I've never wormed my chickens...have yet to see evidence of any worms there. I've been exploring the use of Basic H, a soap made from two plant enzymes, that Joel Salatin uses on his livestock with great effect. If I ever need to worm, I would like to try this out.

Anyone ever heard of this or used it?

The Verm-x website in the USA is www.verm-xusa.com

I know that this thread is a little old, but I wanted to make sure that you all know that all of the natural remedies that youre speaking of here from DE to buttermilk to pumpkin seeds are preventative and curative, but they are not actually wormers...I knwo this from not only extensive research and also from sad personal experience.
I too had never had to worm my free range flock, but I started losing birds and suddenly saw a load of expelled roundworms and wormed them fully...it was too late for a couple of my young rare breed hens who were too deconditioned already from the worms to survive the dieoff.
Everyone seemed fine, and all were laying. A few were thin, but you wouldnt know it unless you examined them closely. By the time the worms came out, it was too late for some of them.
I started with DE and cayenne etc...and then wazine, and then 10 days later ivomec, but I lost a few of my best who were overwhelmed and pooing out huge clumps of worms.
Now I worm my birds regularly. They free range and they eat earthworms etc...and thats enough reason right there!
I recently have had some problem with a neuro virus which according to the extension vets at UConn doesnt look at all like Mareks (whew! because thats easy to get from wild birds) and we are awaiting the lab results to make sure that its not one of the mycoplasmas or the like.
But the vet there saw alot of Ascarites, which are parasites ...and he suggested Ivomec...so, Ive got pour on Eprinex which Im assuming is the same. In any case, while I research that (because I have some injectable ivomec in the house) I wazined them 5 days ago and am giving them vitamins and probiotics to get them into shape....
Ive got 2 turkeys here, and the hen just started laying, and 2 runner ducks...and Im assuming that the treatment is the same. for all.

I just want to warn you all that you can not see anything and still have worms...by the time you see something, its often too late. Its not just a matter of expelling them...you have to really kill them off.
People I know tend to worm during the molt when no one is laying anyway.
I dont want to lose any more birds, and as much as this neuro thing could possibly be a vitamin deficiency, it also could be due to parasites taking the vital vitamins from the bird's gut.
Be careful about being too perfectly pure with your birds...you could lose them.

Also, Ive been using Vermex for a year and its also a preventative, not a wormer. You use it once a month just like all the other preventatives....there are no studies that show that even DE works internally as the anecdotal evidence says.

good luck all....if anyone has info on eprinex and if it is as good as ivermec Id love to know!

Do the seeds need to be dried? Can you use a fresh pumpkin? What about squash? They're in the same family and we eat quite a bit of squash and it would be easy to feed them those seeds, if they'd help with worms.