How do you mix garlic into your feed? What do you buy? Details please!!!
Milk flush for coccidiosis
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I've wondered the same thing. Are you chopping up fresh garlic for them? Minced in the jar?
I would just buy cheap garlic, around $1.50 p/kg, which equates to a lot of garlic bulbs/corms. (People say bulbs these days but they used to be called corms). At a pinch I've used granulated dried raw garlic, and if you must substitute fresh raw garlic, I'd guess the stuff in a jar is also of some use. I don't know, I haven't used that, but generally any garlic is better than none because some of the active ingredients can't be cooked or processed out of it by standard means. However for active virus protection raw and fresh is best.
The main known antibiotic property, Allicin, is created by the reaction of the enzymes released after crushing or cutting the garlic, and dissipates in around 12 or less hours. Less in my experience but it would depend on the breed of garlic too. The more ancient and non-commercialized the breed, the more potent, but even the cheap stuff works for me. Garlic is also high in sulfur which makes a chicken's flesh and blood parasite deterring, once it's been on regular garlic for a while to infuse all its tissues. Works for internal and external parasites and other nasties like bad bacteria. The Allicin in garlic has been used to treat humans with food poisoning that does not react to even very strong pharmaceutical antibiotics and because the enzyme reaction is unique it prevents viral adaption and enables garlic to kill viruses and bacteria that man made antibiotics and antiviral drugs can't touch.
Since I mixed their grain with fluid to bind kelp powder into it I would just throw the garlic into that once minced. Kelp's another thing I would strongly recommend. It's contains all the vitamins and minerals in the correct balance and is a powerful endocrine regulator. It restores correct coloration to feathers/eyes/legs/beak/skin etc, and also instinct, but not in a spacky way; rather they become very intelligent but so peaceful in their interactions. I used to feed whatever I could afford that wasn't layer pellets or crumble or mash, since once you crack a grain the nutritional value depletes severely and progressively. Just cracked is fine. After 30 minutes, an hour, a day, there are shockingly large measurable increments of degradation, so the animals eat more to make up for it. Anyway I'd give coarse grain which has corn, red sorghum, black suflower seeds, and barley or wheat, also stuff like copra meal, millet, bran, whatever I thought they could do with. Raw milk from cows or goats is great, I never had any problems with it even though I would give them as much as they could consume. Apple cider vinegar is great too. My feed wasn't the best but was what I could afford after making allowances for what I considered very important staples (kelp and garlic) which retrospect has shown me were definitely the most important.
Sort of off-topic, last year I caught a virus that had been killing people in their prime rather than old folks and babies as is expected; it got a lot of news coverage. It was a mix of a virus and a bacteria and fungal infection working in cohesion. I had a fever for two days and was a skeleton when I emerged. I was left with a lung problem I knew would kill me if I didn't fix it... I don't look after myself the way I look after my animals, lol! I've had pleurisy before so I've got an idea what's a serious warning sign. Anyway it was making pockets of trapped air in my lungs and getting stronger even though the virus itself had run through, and nothing was coming out, so after a day or two I just chopped a single clove of raw garlic and swallowed it with water. The lung infection died within about 15 minutes, and I've been fine since. Other people died in hospital with the same thing, usually in comas they never emerged from. I am sure raw garlic could also have saved some or possibly all of them. If there's one thing you take a chance on, please try raw garlic for infections, especially viral ones; I'm not saying don't go to hospital, I'm just saying it's more powerful than many people know. A lot of doctors are waking up to its potential now.
The main known antibiotic property, Allicin, is created by the reaction of the enzymes released after crushing or cutting the garlic, and dissipates in around 12 or less hours. Less in my experience but it would depend on the breed of garlic too. The more ancient and non-commercialized the breed, the more potent, but even the cheap stuff works for me. Garlic is also high in sulfur which makes a chicken's flesh and blood parasite deterring, once it's been on regular garlic for a while to infuse all its tissues. Works for internal and external parasites and other nasties like bad bacteria. The Allicin in garlic has been used to treat humans with food poisoning that does not react to even very strong pharmaceutical antibiotics and because the enzyme reaction is unique it prevents viral adaption and enables garlic to kill viruses and bacteria that man made antibiotics and antiviral drugs can't touch.
Since I mixed their grain with fluid to bind kelp powder into it I would just throw the garlic into that once minced. Kelp's another thing I would strongly recommend. It's contains all the vitamins and minerals in the correct balance and is a powerful endocrine regulator. It restores correct coloration to feathers/eyes/legs/beak/skin etc, and also instinct, but not in a spacky way; rather they become very intelligent but so peaceful in their interactions. I used to feed whatever I could afford that wasn't layer pellets or crumble or mash, since once you crack a grain the nutritional value depletes severely and progressively. Just cracked is fine. After 30 minutes, an hour, a day, there are shockingly large measurable increments of degradation, so the animals eat more to make up for it. Anyway I'd give coarse grain which has corn, red sorghum, black suflower seeds, and barley or wheat, also stuff like copra meal, millet, bran, whatever I thought they could do with. Raw milk from cows or goats is great, I never had any problems with it even though I would give them as much as they could consume. Apple cider vinegar is great too. My feed wasn't the best but was what I could afford after making allowances for what I considered very important staples (kelp and garlic) which retrospect has shown me were definitely the most important.
Sort of off-topic, last year I caught a virus that had been killing people in their prime rather than old folks and babies as is expected; it got a lot of news coverage. It was a mix of a virus and a bacteria and fungal infection working in cohesion. I had a fever for two days and was a skeleton when I emerged. I was left with a lung problem I knew would kill me if I didn't fix it... I don't look after myself the way I look after my animals, lol! I've had pleurisy before so I've got an idea what's a serious warning sign. Anyway it was making pockets of trapped air in my lungs and getting stronger even though the virus itself had run through, and nothing was coming out, so after a day or two I just chopped a single clove of raw garlic and swallowed it with water. The lung infection died within about 15 minutes, and I've been fine since. Other people died in hospital with the same thing, usually in comas they never emerged from. I am sure raw garlic could also have saved some or possibly all of them. If there's one thing you take a chance on, please try raw garlic for infections, especially viral ones; I'm not saying don't go to hospital, I'm just saying it's more powerful than many people know. A lot of doctors are waking up to its potential now.
Great post, Chooks4life. Thank you!
I've recently read other posts here on BYC about the wonderful properties of adding garlic to the food (primarily as a natural means of internal/external pest control), but was unsure of how people were going about doing that... I've never wormed my birds with chemicals (and have no intentions of ever doing so), but I like the idea of preventative management, so this really interests me.
I also feed my food wet (I've actually just started fermenting it). So, just to confirm, you would mince the garlic prior to each feeding, adding the freshly minced garlic as a topping to the wet grains? Or would you mince a lot at once, mixing it all into your feeder bucket with the grains for feeding out as needed? Based on your comment about the Allicin dissipating in approx 12 hours, I'm assuming you did the former...
Oh - and congrats on your recovery! That sounds like some pretty scary stuff that you went through... Glad to hear that you're better, though the thought of swallowing a whole garlic clove makes me cringe up a little bit. :/
I've recently read other posts here on BYC about the wonderful properties of adding garlic to the food (primarily as a natural means of internal/external pest control), but was unsure of how people were going about doing that... I've never wormed my birds with chemicals (and have no intentions of ever doing so), but I like the idea of preventative management, so this really interests me.
I also feed my food wet (I've actually just started fermenting it). So, just to confirm, you would mince the garlic prior to each feeding, adding the freshly minced garlic as a topping to the wet grains? Or would you mince a lot at once, mixing it all into your feeder bucket with the grains for feeding out as needed? Based on your comment about the Allicin dissipating in approx 12 hours, I'm assuming you did the former...
Oh - and congrats on your recovery! That sounds like some pretty scary stuff that you went through... Glad to hear that you're better, though the thought of swallowing a whole garlic clove makes me cringe up a little bit. :/
Quote: You're very welcome and I hope it helps.
Quote: I would make up all the food in one big steel pot and mix the freshly minced garlic straight in; I mixed it because some would pick out more than others and they had quite a huge appetite for it! If one clove did the trick for me, how can each chook need a whole clove, I thought... But it's a good standard because the neediest individuals can get as much as they need that way. I was accidentally fermenting it by wetting it, because the chooks would bury it and eat it the next day, always eating it a day later than I made it; in your case I think you could just add it on top of the grain or however suits you. Introducing them to a new feed item is often a bit easier if you just throw it in their grain so they get a taste for it and learn to identify it.
Quote: Thanks, I'm glad too.
I swallowed it with water because I too was cringing up about it but now I can eat it raw without the cringe. Great health staple for us too.
Quote: I don't know about fermenting the grain with the garlic in it, depending on how long you leave it, but it might work; it also might ferment the grain until it's fizzy. Probably best to add after the grain's fermented separately. For a while, just when I had a lot of other stuff on the agenda, I would make up the food and leave it overnight so I could quickly feed it the next day. They never minded or got sick, so maybe it's fine. Best wishes.
Quote: I would make up all the food in one big steel pot and mix the freshly minced garlic straight in; I mixed it because some would pick out more than others and they had quite a huge appetite for it! If one clove did the trick for me, how can each chook need a whole clove, I thought... But it's a good standard because the neediest individuals can get as much as they need that way. I was accidentally fermenting it by wetting it, because the chooks would bury it and eat it the next day, always eating it a day later than I made it; in your case I think you could just add it on top of the grain or however suits you. Introducing them to a new feed item is often a bit easier if you just throw it in their grain so they get a taste for it and learn to identify it.
Quote: Thanks, I'm glad too.
I swallowed it with water because I too was cringing up about it but now I can eat it raw without the cringe. Great health staple for us too.Quote: I don't know about fermenting the grain with the garlic in it, depending on how long you leave it, but it might work; it also might ferment the grain until it's fizzy. Probably best to add after the grain's fermented separately. For a while, just when I had a lot of other stuff on the agenda, I would make up the food and leave it overnight so I could quickly feed it the next day. They never minded or got sick, so maybe it's fine. Best wishes.
Quote: Best wishes with that and please let us know how it goes!
- May 3, 2014
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Please Help ! my hen is just sleeping and wont open one eye !
2 year old red rhode island chicken has became sick for 8 days.
Symptoms: Diarrhea, Feather pecking, sleeping all of the time standing up, eating much less, no pruning, no dusting, and no laying, super watery poop, and extreme weight loss.
I treat her antibiotic three days,
Thanks a lot
Amy
2 year old red rhode island chicken has became sick for 8 days.
Symptoms: Diarrhea, Feather pecking, sleeping all of the time standing up, eating much less, no pruning, no dusting, and no laying, super watery poop, and extreme weight loss.
I treat her antibiotic three days,
Thanks a lot
Amy
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What should I do if my hens do not eat garlic ?
thanks
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