Round worms can migrate through the entire body even into the eyes and brain causing irreparable damage. Once worms leave the gut wormers are useless and treatment is difficult. I urge you to do your own research into symptoms and treatment. Untreated, worms cause a great loss in overall health and even death. Not everyone or every animal has worms.
Here's a good thread on how effective natural treatments are.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ts-is-not-coryza-or-crd-parasites-are-rampant
This is a perfect example of someone who is trying to use "natural" remedies like they do chemical ones...like some magical cure all that if you throw enough of it down their bodies it will make up for lack of proper management. She has been doing this daily..who in the world would think that something given daily and in a scattershot method would just take care of any and all parasites? The same people who do not want to do any sort of problem solving, thinking or planning for long term solutions...they think they can use natural remedies like a magic bullet. I've even read of folks using ACV in the water as the totality of their worm prevention program.
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Natural remedies work well alongside other natural management of livestock...not
instead of them. It's sort of like that old saying, "Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die." Natural remedies only are as good as the birds you are using them on...they will not work on birds that have poor immune systems, heavy and existing worm loads, etc.
This is why I always emphasize the very necessary and effective yearly culling of the flock...keep the best, kill the rest. The "rest" are those that are more likely to be your disease and parasite vectors for the flock. But..no one on these forums want to kill their pets, so they will keep insisting on trying to treat, shore up and give a crutch to animals that compromise the health of their whole flock by their mere existence.
All natural flock management is not just natural remedies that one can feed to the chickens...it encompasses so much more than that. It's about restoring balance to the soils if they have become imbalanced, keeping balance in the soils and coops, not overstocking your land or buildings and pens, weeding out the weaker flock members, breeding for stronger genetics, trying to obtain breeds that are naturally hardy and self-sufficient instead of toy or ornamental breeds that are not meant for a long and natural life due to poor breeding or due to keeping them in the wrong climates, exercise out in the sun and rain and snow, open air cooping, natural diets of bugs, grasses and legumes that are their normal diet, keeping them slender and fit instead of overfed and burdened with a load of fat....and so many more things like a balanced social structure, a low stress existence, an occupied mind and body.
Everything I have said and promote has been studied and well documented and has basis in fact if you would just avail yourself of the information and read up, study on it all. I've been studying on this subject since the 70s and have applied it to our animals with consistent and good results.
This is a take or leave it kind of notion....you can argue until you are blue in the face on this but it just doesn't change the facts. You can either use it or not, your choice. That's how this all works....don't like what I have to say, just don't read it.
There are other threads about using chemicals for livestock management where you can maybe feel more comfortable about the advice given.
