Questions on worming young birds

[peachychick]

We are new to poultry keeping and have a billion questions, but for today we'll restrain it to worming.
We have chickens from 4 months to 4 days old, housed in 4 different pens. (30-4 mo., 30-6 wks, 12-3 wks, and 12-4 days). Is there a general purpose wormer that we should be placing in the drinking water or food at this point?
We've raised puppies in the past and know that most all mammals need worming pretty young. Does the same apply to chickens?
Everyone appears pretty healthy and happy--moving around the pens, chasing bugs, scratching, pretty normal. Of course they're hot down here in AL and slow down during the heat of the day.
Any advice?

 

[Sillystunt]

some people do , some people don't. I give mine a little bit of food grade DE in their food. I know the hatcheries that have banners above have stuff you can buy.

 

[ml]

here is some great info on worming

http://web2.uconn.edu/poultry/poultrypages/diseasefactsheet.html

you can find other info by google up poultry and worming.

ML