@BY Bob I meant to mention this in one of my posts yesterday, and it got deleted mid post and struggling with the pic uploading, etc... and we are both going to have to pay some chicken tax here, I warn you. In the “my chickens might have a STD, I’m calling all my contacts/other farmers” phone call post about the potential Mareks exposure on our island, I was also dragged into a “Covid discussion” with the hippie/co-op eccentric person. (Oh, and his “situation” also explains a chick purchase inquiry I received a few weeks ago from another chicken owning resident on the same property 
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please rant here and explain to people (as your thread is almost going “viral” here apparently) on how inaccurate this “important information” on Covid is.... *shoving soapbox under the local expert’s feet*
So the Guy went from “I’m killing all my chickens because they have Mareks” (maybe... a virus, like you know?) to “you’re young and don’t need to worry about this but... Ivermectin cures Covid, but it’s so cheap no one will promote it. I was feeling ill and (before our vet restrictions) I had had a premonition so I bought the Apple flavor oral horse wormer version in bulk. It “cures”!Covid. Several South American countries and some Mexican provinces have completely eliminated Covid using ivomec!!! Blah blah bla...”
Anyhow, as I was mentioning how much I love ivomec for severe mite infestations (especially SLM) and lice, and I am also currently saying how well the antibiotics are doing in improving Roostie’s situation; I also feel obliged to say it isn’t a cure all. Please don’t think of it as such, and I highly doubt ivomec is a “cure” for Covid. Don’t consume horse wormers to cure a virus, please!!! Needless to say the phone conversation involved a lot of “Um-hmmm, you don’t say?”, and “that’s fascinating”. If he picked anything up (parasites
) from drinking contaminated water, eating roadkill, etc ... it may have helped with that?
I’m quite vocally pro chemical treatment when appropriate and used in an informed and educated manner, and considering some of my own current situations, that’s possibly going to get unexpectedly very publicly exposed here. But please don’t eat horse wormer, and ivomec etc. are not effective against viruses.... that’s why it’s so hard for me to find meds for my chickens here, because some people advocate eating horse paste wormers as an anti viral solution...
) please rant here and explain to people (as your thread is almost going “viral” here apparently) on how inaccurate this “important information” on Covid is.... *shoving soapbox under the local expert’s feet*
So the Guy went from “I’m killing all my chickens because they have Mareks” (maybe... a virus, like you know?) to “you’re young and don’t need to worry about this but... Ivermectin cures Covid, but it’s so cheap no one will promote it. I was feeling ill and (before our vet restrictions) I had had a premonition so I bought the Apple flavor oral horse wormer version in bulk. It “cures”!Covid. Several South American countries and some Mexican provinces have completely eliminated Covid using ivomec!!! Blah blah bla...”
Anyhow, as I was mentioning how much I love ivomec for severe mite infestations (especially SLM) and lice, and I am also currently saying how well the antibiotics are doing in improving Roostie’s situation; I also feel obliged to say it isn’t a cure all. Please don’t think of it as such, and I highly doubt ivomec is a “cure” for Covid. Don’t consume horse wormers to cure a virus, please!!! Needless to say the phone conversation involved a lot of “Um-hmmm, you don’t say?”, and “that’s fascinating”. If he picked anything up (parasites
) from drinking contaminated water, eating roadkill, etc ... it may have helped with that?I’m quite vocally pro chemical treatment when appropriate and used in an informed and educated manner, and considering some of my own current situations, that’s possibly going to get unexpectedly very publicly exposed here. But please don’t eat horse wormer, and ivomec etc. are not effective against viruses.... that’s why it’s so hard for me to find meds for my chickens here, because some people advocate eating horse paste wormers as an anti viral solution...
with Dan the Man, you never know what’s coming 
Australorps have eyes like that too.
and you! 
