Laying Hens/Worm Medicine?

The grocery store has bulk bins of seeds and dried fruits and that's where I get mine. Also, the health food store in town has organic ones, just a bit more expensive than Ingle's. I feed that to them once a week mostly, but sometime skip a week. Heck, buttermilk is very expensive these days, but no more so than chemicals and other less desirable stuff, right? In the winter, I use the buttermilk to cool down oatmeal a bit on a warm morning and add the seeds to that. They love it.
 
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That is interesting - I wonder why something similar is not available in the US. I am really glad not to have to use chemicals, I use enough of those worming my horse and am never very happy doing it!
 
I usually buy pumkins after Thanksgiving,when the price gos way down. i just break them on the ground and let the hens have them at will. I have not mixed them with buttermilk. Do I need to? What does that do?
 
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Speckled, I'd like to try the pumpkin seed/buttermilk method if I can find unsalted pumpkin seeds in bulk in this podunk town. I wormed all my chicks with DE awhile back, while they were still on grower crumbles. It cleared up the few cases of runny poo I had for everybody but my one rooster. His poo is still kinda runny, so I was thinking of worming him again. I've never seen worms, just the runny poo.
About the molasses follow up, how much in a gallon of water, for how long?
 
Gee, Kat, I'm trying to think how much. I was thinking a couple tablespoons in a gallon, but let me check and get back to you in a few minutes.

It's a pint to 5 gallons of water, according to my bookmarked webpage. Check this page out-it has other solutions you can make.
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/poultry/extsoln.htm
 
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Thanks speckled! You're awesome!!
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I saw on their website that VermX is now available in the US.
Yesterday I emailed the person listed as the US contact (Karen Jenne) and I just got an email from her with the price list and web brochure this evening.

http://www.vermx.com/International Distributors.htm

I just thought I would pass this on to anyone interested.
 
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Can Ivomec EPRINEX be used orally? I'm not sure if I could squirt it on all of my chickens. I'd be bound to miss some.
 

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