So do you have a list of the ingredients?I would say, based on my knowledge of plants and their properties, that it's likely more useful as a preventative.
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So do you have a list of the ingredients?I would say, based on my knowledge of plants and their properties, that it's likely more useful as a preventative.
I see your point and thank you. I agree the worms must be eliminated. I would suggest that there may be medicinal methods that don't require a purchase from a store.Do you know what determines a serious case of worms? One worm is one worm too many. One female large roundworm can lay as many as 200,000 eggs a day contaminating the soil where your birds forage. Birds peck the soil all the time, in doing so they swallow worm eggs starting the worms lifecycle all over again.
VermX is a waste of money. The worms must be eliminated using chemicals and depending on soil conditions, may require monthly treatments.
Good question. The ingredient list I saw had: allium (garlic), slippery elm bark powder, peppermint, common thyme, cleavers, cinnamon, quassia, fennel, stinging nettles, and cayenne. I saw one Verm-X product that had elecampane.So do you have a list of the ingredients?
Good article. Innacurate, since many of these ingredients are approved by the FDA as antihelmintics, but, you know, always good to see what's out there.I can relate to the poison ivy. I've had it several times...miserable.
Anyway, here you go:
http://skeptvet.com/Blog/2012/01/ve...eal-evidence-to-show-it-is-safe-or-effective/
Nope. Companies that sell Verm-X on their websites may use words like "wormer", "intestinal parasites", etc. in the "listing" or "listing title" as keywords. These keywords are how buyers find products.Verm-X proper, as sold on Amazon and other places, does claim to be a dewormer. Personally, I think a serious case would not respond to Verm-X or my herbal concoction in eliminating all worms. This is why I think it could well be used as a nutritional and antihelmintic treatment to prevent infestation and control a very minor one.
I can tell you're new with chickens. Just about everyone wants to go organic with chickens when they first get them. I jumped on that bandwagon years ago, as have many others.Good question. The ingredient list I saw had: allium (garlic), slippery elm bark powder, peppermint, common thyme, cleavers, cinnamon, quassia, fennel, stinging nettles, and cayenne. I saw one Verm-X product that had elecampane.
I also knew that pumpkin seeds expel worms from the gut, and I have also seen various folks use apple cider vinegar, food grade diatomaceous earth, and nasturtium leaves and flowers in their treatments.
I do know that garlic, mint, cleavers, cayenne, pumpkin seeds, and DE are classified as antihelmintics by the FDA. I am not as familiar with the others having that particular quality. Slippery elm bark powder is extremely nourishing to intestinal and stomach linings which make itand it's like an internal "band-aid" that makes then inhospitable to parasites. Stinging nettles is like a multi-vitamin and is extremely high in chlorophyll which parasites also seem to be adverse to. We all know about DE as a dewormer. I've seen cayenne get rid of worms in cats, personally. Again, these are the ones that were on the bottle and others I've seen in chicken blogs.
x2Best way I've found to prevent worms is to keep the coop bedding and run bone-dry. If in UK/Europe, Stalosan-F helps with this.
If the birds have worms though, the best thing is flubenvet.
A chicken would have to eat a truck load of crushed pumpkin seeds in order for the cucurbitin to be effective eliminating worms.
Keeping birds on the same soil will require frequent wormings.