You said the chickens won't be fit to eat. Actually with Wazine, it's the egglayers that it isn't labeled for. See the deworming link in post #8025- it mentions broilers.I haven't noticed any worms and my birds are doing well and are at a nice weight. I just saw on another list they were talking about worming their flocks every 6 months and being new I thought I better ask questions.So it sounds like I shouldn't worm unless I see the need. Throw out the eggs for several weeks afterwards and the chickens that were wormed will no longer be fit to eat. Did I get it right? Would these eggs be ok to feed to the dogs or is that not good either? Appreciate all the info and that you guys are willing to answer newbie questions. Thanks again.
I must have misunderstood what I read.
Is Wazine the same as Piperzine. It was first made for swine I think and later approved for poultry.
I think why we don't have better wormers for poultry is the cost to made and get approved with the USDA for meat animals for people. The cost to get them approved would be high and it takes time. Also the meat and egg producers don't need wormers. The meat birds are butchered at like 6 weeks. Hen are only used for one laying time and then it's off to chicken noodle soup. Show or backyard flocks are left without a good approved poultry wormer and to made a wormer for just this small part of poultry in the US would be to costly. Just my thinking.
I would not SELL eggs from just wormed birds for 10 days or so, but I have no problems eating eggs, or birds , that have been recently wormed. All the wormers that we use are routinely used to worm PEOPLE in third world countries . RARELY , SOME PEOPLE SHOW SOME SENSITIVITY TO THE DRUGS . It would take years of testing , and millions of dollars , to get these drugs approved for chickens used for meat and eggs.
