Natural cures to roundworms / other internal parasites

[casportpony]

For me I'm not willing to take someone's word that it the natural "whatever" worked in an animal, but if I could find properly documented studies showing that it did, then I might try it. Plenty of such studies exist for all of the chemical wormers, but I have not seen one for any of the natural wormers.

Go ahead and try some, but if you do, have fecal floats done before and after your treatment, that's the only way you'll know if it's working.

-Kathy

 

[cafarmgirl]

Butchered bird had worms? Mmmmmm, more meat on the table!

You are so bad!

For me I'm not willing to take someone's word that it the natural "whatever" worked in an animal, but if I could find properly documented studies showing that it did, then I might try it. Plenty of such studies exist for all of the chemical wormers, but I have not seen one for any of the natural wormers.

Go ahead and try some, but if you do, have fecal floats done before and after your treatment, that's the only way you'll know if it's working.

-Kathy

Same here. The day I can see multiple, solid scientific studies that show proof of efficacy then I'm willing to give it a shot. Until then, the health of my birds is more important so I use what I know for a fact works. Worms are just to damaging. As far as not eating birds that have been dewormed with chemical dewormers...the dewormer does not stay in their system or the tissues forever, that's why there are egg and meat withdrawal periods. Just wait the specified length of time for the meds to clear the system before consuming eggs or slaughtering.

 

[bngowe]

If you research these ingredients individually, they do have scientific studies that indicate their effectiveness in humans. Whether they would all work in chickens, I'm not sure. Maybe not in a single dosage, but used regularly, it may be effective. I do think that multiple, solid scientific studies are costly and pharmaceuticals would only do these studies if it's profitable to them. Why else would they do studies to find more natural cures? ( might be the reason why my doctor [or any doctor] never told me about local honey and are more quick to prescribe medication). I guess that's the difference from western & eastern medicine.

 

[bngowe]

On a side note, did you know that fish can carry roundworms? Eating raw fish can expose you to roundworms & their larvae. Ginger is shown to be effective in killing roundworms & their larvae. I wonder if that's the reason why ginger is served with sushi. No worries though, in the US, regulations requires raw fish to be flash frozen to kill off any parasites. As a back up, eat the ginger.

 

[dawg53]

If you research these ingredients individually, they do have scientific studies that indicate their effectiveness in humans. Whether they would all work in chickens, I'm not sure. Maybe not in a single dosage, but used regularly, it may be effective. I do think that multiple, solid scientific studies are costly and pharmaceuticals would only do these studies if it's profitable to them. Why else would they do studies to find more natural cures? ( might be the reason why my doctor [or any doctor] never told me about local honey and are more quick to prescribe medication). I guess that's the difference from western & eastern medicine.

Valbazen (albendazole) works in chickens:
http://japr.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/3/392.full.pdf
Safeguard (fenbendazole/panacur) works in chickens:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6750887