Garlic As Worm Treatment/Preventative

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Biosecurity is also important: Always wear especially designated chicken boots (that will never be used elsewhere) when entering their space. Never enter their space with street boots/shoes.

This has been my finding after researching various ways of prevention. I am changing my management system to include a lot of bio-security and I'm designing my second coop along those lines also. Can't be 100% but a large reduction in the risks should offset the hassle and expense. Not to mention preventing the production losses associated with treating and withdrawal times when you have to treat with the chemical meds.

Now if these silly chickens will cooperate and stop pooping everywhere and eating bugs and grass and .... and ... Sorry, got carried away.

 

[Weeg]

I feel like you'd have to give a ton of garlic (likely raw as well) for it to negatively affect them.

I guess each person has to take care of their flocks as they see fit. We've never lost a chicken to garlic. We learned very early in that its good for their respiratory system. So we started. They love it and it's seemed to have worked over the years. Like people, each chicken is different.
Like others, I'm just speaking from our experiences.

Agreed. In reasonable amounts I believe garlic and be beneficial, but in large amounts thats were it becomes unsafe.

 

[ChookieG]

My understanding is that garlic doesn’t kill the worms but it does kill worm eggs, so if you already have a worm problem it won’t do as much good, but it’s good for Once the worm problem is under control. You do need to use it daily because the protection doesn’t stay in the chickens. I’ve only been a chicken person for 16 months,but so far when the vet fecal test for parasites comes back clean. Just lucky or it’s working? I just crush 2 cloves and drop into water container, which I then clean out at end of day.

Wondering if bottled garlic or garlic powder will work. Fresh garlic costs a bomb here! I might as well be buying chooks every week and still be saving money than adding 2 cloves into the water every day!

 

[Sally PB]

Wondering if bottled garlic or garlic powder will work. Fresh garlic costs a bomb here!

Garlic is very easy to grow.

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

Dogs to, its also an immune booster, and anything like that is always helpful to help the animal expel worms, and keep them from getting them. I think its helpful at least for that.

This is incorrect. Garlic, onion, allium is highly toxic to dogs.

 

[Weeg]

This is incorrect. Garlic, onion, allium is highly toxic to dogs.

Onion, and everything else in the family is toxic, with the execution of garlic in small amounts is what I read. In large amounts your absolutely correct, its toxic.
Though I could be wrong, I probably wouldn't risk it with my won dogs, but definitely interesting information if a dog got into garlic by mistake.

 

[zippy nips]

Not sure either but I'm looking into it. .... There's a list on here somewhere

Edit: Apparently garlic is used a lot to support the health of chickens. But I didn't find anything that stated it did anything for worms.

I guess we wait and see if we get any answers ......

i put minced garlic in my chickens food to treat them for mites, and it worked pretty well.

the way it works is that the stuff in the garlic is transfered to the oil glands for the chickens to use when preening their feathers.

 

[Bella Dominique]

Onion, and everything else in the family is toxic, with the execution of garlic in small amounts is what I read. In large amounts your absolutely correct, its toxic.
Though I could be wrong, I probably wouldn't risk it with my won dogs, but definitely interesting information if a dog got into garlic by mistake.

Weeg, This is my understanding also. The amount of thiosulphate, which is the toxin in onion is present in garlic in minute amounts. I usually have one waterer with garlic and another without and the chickens usually drink from both.

 

[ChookieG]

Onion, and everything else in the family is toxic, with the execution of garlic in small amounts is what I read. In large amounts your absolutely correct, its toxic.
Though I could be wrong, I probably wouldn't risk it with my won dogs, but definitely interesting information if a dog got into garlic by mistake.

I had a neighbor who used to feed his Rottweiler minced meat with loads of garlic everyday thinking it was doing him good. His dog died of Leukemia when it was 9 years of age.

 

[LaFleche]

Now if these silly chickens will cooperate and stop pooping everywhere and eating bugs and grass and .... and ... Sorry, got carried away.

Maybe invite them to some training sessions?