girlchick

[lcpooler]

Hi, Today is my first day and I also have some questions, not only about chickens, but how to navigate your BYC site. Guess my title should be 'Dummychick"!
My first question is about worming. I bought the wormer and have instructions. My question is about the eggs. Can the eggs be eaten or should they be avoided and if avoided, for how long? Thanks very much.

 

[TwoCrows]

Hello there and welcome to BYC!

So glad you could join our community! And yes, BYC can be daunting at first with navigating, but you will get the hang of it eventually.

As for wormers, most of them do have an egg and meat withdrawal time when you can't eat either. So depending on what type of wormer you are going to use will depend on the withdrawal time. What type do you have?

Have you stopped by our learning center yet? Lots of great articles on all the basics on keeping poultry...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/atype/1/Learning_Center

Enjoy this new adventure you are on and if you have any questions, that is what we are here for. Welcome to our flock!

 

[gander007]

I would boil up the egg's and feed them back to the chickens for a month by then you should be good to go with them and the chickens should be happy ....

 

[Kelsie2290]

Hello and Welcome To BYC! X3 depends what you are using. People do various things, some wormers have an egg withdrawal time listed somewhere and some wormers are off label and people tend to use the withdrawal time for whatever animal they are meant for, in both cases either toss the eggs or feed them back to the chickens (potentially a problem since if you are not eating the eggs because the residual wormer in the eggs, you are feeding wormer back to the chickens), other people eat the eggs anyhow, especially if it is a wormer that is used on humans.

 

[sourland]

Hello

and Welcome To BYC! X3 depends what you are using. People do various things, some wormers have an egg withdrawal time listed somewhere and some wormers are off label and people tend to use the withdrawal time for whatever animal they are meant for, in both cases either toss the eggs or feed them back to the chickens (potentially a problem since if you are not eating the eggs because the residual wormer in the eggs, you are feeding wormer back to the chickens), other people eat the eggs anyhow, especially if it is a wormer that is used on humans.

I'm with Kelsie on not feeding the eggs back to the chickens - won't really harm them, but you are reintroducing low levels of wormer back into their systems. Good luck with your birds. Trust me, if I can navigate this site,

you will be able to also.

 

[drumstick diva]