Michigan

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RaZ Road commissions often spray herbicides before they mow.
bummer. They seem heck bent on eliminating every possible speck of plant life over here. Even if it is super far off the road, and people like to look. Trees too, lately.

 

[Olive Hill]

No kidding! Wow. And how much feed am I looking at? I would possibly have them in a run separate from the chickens... Ok.. I will have them separate. Just, what kind of feed bill will I be looking at for 4-6 turkeys? They were so dang cute! I couldn't control myself and I had to pick one up. I didn't realise it was a turkey at first.

70 - 100+ lbs per bird. Much depends on your setup, the feed you choose to use, how long you raise them (to what weight), etc. You can figure 2:1 - 3:1 FCR, most backyard keepers getting towards the higher end of that.

 

[Olive Hill]

Well I'll get some deworming stuff in the morning and see if that helps her out. Any recommendations?

Piperazine is what you're going to find marketed for poultry, but it only treats one kind of parasites. If you're going to treat without having a FEC done, you're going to want to treat with a broad spectrum such as Ivermectin instead to better cover your bases.

 

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Ferrret Any recommendations?
I have seen valbazen recommended the most, 1/2 a cc for regular size chickens, 1/4 a cc for banties. Repeat in 10 days to kill newly hatched eggs. This one is supposed to kill all kinds of worms. Some wormers don't. You can't eat the eggs for some time afterwards. Don't remember how long, seems like a couple weeks at least.

I used equimax horse paste on mine, a pea size for reg and 1/2 of the pea size for banties, no repeat. (says kills in one dose?) This was what was available in my feed store, and i had definite tapeworm with the roundworm, so that's why the mega wormer. I did get the dose and idea from someone i trusted off BYC. Same thing about holding off on egg eating.

I haven't seen any more worms, though with the heat and the pecking i'm sure they have some again. I will wait for obvious signs before doing that again, though. In theory, healthy chickens are supposed to not get them too bad.

edited to add that the equimaq had the ivermectin too, plus praziquantel.

 

[Ferrret]

Could a regular vet do a fecal check for any type of animal? We asked our local vet if she knew anything about treating chickens when we took our cats in for a check up, and she said she wasn't really trained for livestock treatment. If it's just examining poop for worms, that shouldn't require a lot of special knowledge, would it?

Should I treat just my EE or treat all of my birds?

 

[NovaAman]

70 - 100+ lbs per bird.  Much depends on your setup, the feed you choose to use, how long you raise them (to what weight), etc.   You can figure 2:1 - 3:1 FCR, most backyard keepers getting towards the higher end of that. 

what does that mean? The 2:1-3:1 FCR I mean.. I am guessing I better get some research in before I leap before I look...

 

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Olive, i have a question you might be able to answer: Do goats and chickens share worms?

 

[NovaAman]

Could a regular vet do a fecal check for any type of animal? We asked our local vet if she knew anything about treating chickens when we took our cats in for a check up, and she said she wasn't really trained for livestock treatment. If it's just examining poop for worms, that shouldn't require a lot of special knowledge, would it?

Should I treat just my EE or treat all of my birds?

Ask your vet... Mine does here in Holland. Also, you'll need to crate her over nite by herself so you know its her poop... Crate her in the coop tho, so she ain't alone. And then just treat her. No sense doing them all for just one that is exhibiting. Also consider adding ACV to their drinking water.... Fresh minced garlic to the diet as well as some probiotics.

 

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Ferrret Could a regular vet do a fecal check for any type of animal?
Ours won't. Gotta find a vet who does birds too. If you can get the fecals, then you can treat on a case by case basis i suppose. Or you can try treating just her first, to see if it even makes a difference. Myself, i did the whole flock to put them all at the same definite starting point of worm load, then worked on building their immune system to try to keep it from happening again. Some people worm every 6 months in an attempt to eliminate, but i think that's nuts. I don't want them to have them, but there's a point.......

 

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Well, i'm off to bed, guys. by the time i fire off a reply, there's already one there! lol.

nite.