Incubating eggs from pullets wormed with Valbazen

[Faraday40]

Has anyone hatched eggs laid after de-worming? What were the results?


I just finished a round of de-worming (Valbazen). I now have a broody hen. It's been 5 days since the last meds, and about 5-6 days since she started going broody. Can I allow her to sit on a couple eggs?

If I make the hen wait another week or two before giving her fertile eggs, she may decide to give up brooding before the eggs hatch.

Advice?

 

[Twinsnchickens]

If you have just worked your chickens, do not attempt to hatch eggs. I would not eat them for at least two weeks, and I would double the time for hatching. Personally, I would wait about five weeks. If valbazen residue is in the eggs, the eggs will most likely not develop, and if they do, the chicks will more than likely have deformities and die. I have experienced this. The chicks that were from unwormed hens hatched fine, but the ones from wormed hens either did not hatch, hatched without a beak, without eyes, without feet, and even without a scalp, exposing the chicks brains. They died immediately after hatching.

Uhh that is so morbid. That must have been awful to experience. I get upset when I find an egg with a blood ring, couldn't possibly imagine dealing with that