Any special shots, etc. needed for eating eggs?? Thanks.

Basically, I use raw unsalted pumpkin seeds and buttermilk. You can also just feed them raw squash and pumpkin, but my girls won't eat it unless it's cooked. The seeds have curcurbit in them that paralyzes the worm and I can't remember what the buttermilk does unless it just hurries it through the digestive tract or sets up a Ph level that is hostile to the worm or something and helps them expel them. I'd have to look that up. You can get the pumpkin seeds at the bulk bin in the grocery store or the health food store, either one. I also put a handful in their scratch can from time to time. They love them.
 
speckledhen...i have heard the pumpkin seed thing before!..very weird story..but..my mother grew up on a farm in VT., and she has told me stories of her mother giving her and her siblings pumpkin seeds for worms..(gross, i know..but that was how they did it back then)..so..thanks for that info!..my chickens will get pumpikin seeds for sure!...Wendy
 

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