garlic for worms and 2 pet peeves!!

[Davaroo]

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And if it dont work on the chickens, it sure sounds good enough to eat!

 

[rancher hicks]

You know what bothers me is that the Practical Poultry mag. from the UK, has an article about "NOPEX". So I e-mailed them to see if I could get some but they don't even e-mail me back. In fact you can't even get to them by e-mail unless you have a "pay" e-mail account.
Excuse me for saying this but, no wonder my sil moved over here and his parents to. Pretty soon the only natives living there will be the Queen and her dogs. Then again the dogs may be imports. It just kinda gets to me that I can't even communicate w/ England.


" The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan Selah

"America will never be drstroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."- Abraham Lincoln. The same can be said for any country, IMHO. Selah

 

[dragonlair]

I've heard that pumpkin seeds are a natural wormer, as is poplar bark.

 

[pardenx3]

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Vermx is a real dewormer, but chemical free so you don't have any withdrawl on eating eggs. Deworm, and eat eggs the same day.

 

[silky ma]

Someone wanted to know if you have to roast the garlic..no you dont but they seem to love it roasted . pumpkin seeds are great at worming as are many other holistic approaches. I use garlic because its available year around..I love the taste of a spoon ful of roasted garlic! Yum.......... I wish I had stock in the roaster company!!

 

[dianer29]

I used minced fine raw garlic mixed into their brown rice everyday though since they started to lay I had to stop as I need to use their eggs at times for cake and cookies etc.They are 7 months old SILKIES.Iprobably will add it occassionally in their brown rice,which they love......................

 

[Davaroo]

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I believe any effect from the garlic is to be had with it in the raw state. Cooking it changes it and is likely to diminish it efficacy. Have you tried it raw?

 

[KKatknap]

At least for people, cooking (and especially roasting) garlic really mellows the flavor. So, I'm guessing the same would come through in the eggs(?)
Raw garlic=garlic-y eggs,
roasted garlic= not so much.
A theory simply based on what it does in cooking. I've never tried it, but that's my hypothesis on the egg thing.

Although...is garlic-y eggs really a bad thing? You could market them as a specialty item. "No need to add spices".

 

[Davaroo]

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See, I like the way you think..."with a broad stroke!"

I was under the impression that de-worming efforts are not intended as long term, even continuous efforts. Rather they are conducted either based on need as a cure or periodically, as a general practice.

Are you suggesting that you feed the birds garlic all the time, as part of their daily regimen? If so, then raw garlic will most likely flavor the eggs and not in the way we think. Supposedly it is not a good flavor, being kinda funky by the time it gets to the egg.

But why do this? Is it on the off chance that they may get worms, so you keep them garlic'd up? Or just as a natural kind of tonic?

 

[jettgirl24]

I'm going to keep this in mind for when my babies get older and go outside. I actually don't mind a garlic flavor to my eggs as I always add it when I cook them anyway. I guess the only time you may not want that would be for baking