Show off your Peas!

[zazouse]

Safeguard leaves no guess work when used properly and on a schedule,

how much garlic will each bird require and how many pumpkin seeds ?????????????

 

[casportpony]

IMO, the best wormers to use are Safeguard or Valbazen, period.

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

I put three pumpkins in with Colbolt and Sage. They ate 2 and a little bit of the other pumpkin. They seem fine I haven't done a test to see how many parasites are in them. They kept eating them like a kid with candy until 2 weeks then they slowed down on the third. Thora got Garlic powder in her feed, I gave her 3 cloves. She's doing fine as well. Marshmallow got Safeguard though.

Not small, you're Halloween Jack o' Lanterns size.

 

[casportpony]

Safeguard leaves no guess work when used properly and on a schedule, 
  how much garlic will each bird require and how many pumpkin seeds ????????????? 

Many have tried pumpkin, garlic, AVC, etc, and many have lost their birds from doing it instead of using the proper amounts of a proper chemical wormer.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I put three pumpkins in with Colbolt and Sage. They ate 2 and a little bit of the other pumpkin. They seem fine I haven't done a test to see how many parasites are in them. They kept eating them like a kid with candy until 2 weeks then they slowed down on the third. Thora got Garlic powder in her feed, I gave her 3 cloves. She's doing fine as well. Marshmallow got Safeguard though.

Not small, you're Halloween Jack o' Lanterns size.

Next time you have a fecal done and it's positive, you go ahead and treat with pumpkin seeds and garlic. If they live, have a follow up fecal done and report the reduction in worm eggs. Until then, you probably shouldn't claim that either work, right?

Probably no harm in feeding either to them, but please, people, don't count on your birds being free of worms if you do!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-and-wormer-misinformations-graphic-pictures

-Kathy

 

[Garden Peas]

Use a natural wormer like pumpkin seeds or Garlic powder. You can put that in their feed and they will most likely eat it. Garlic has Sulfur which kills worms and if they are a year old then they don't need the really strong stuff just something to give them a break every now and then. I only worm in Spring and fall with Pumpkin seeds except Marshmallow I gave her Safeguard to be sure.

Okay, I don't want to bring up a sore subject, but do you happen to remember THIS photo?



That's the photo @KsKingBee posted from the necropsy on his still growing-out chick that died from worms, and had already had some Safeguard and worming treatment. KKB, can you remind us how old this poor chick was when she died? Wasn't she one from this spring/summer's hatch?

@Birdrain92 , where on earth did you get the idea that peas only a year old "don't need the strong stuff?" Pumpkin seeds and garlic are great as a supplement, but I don't want THIS happening to my chicks.

 

[casportpony]

Let's not forget about the three year old spalding hen that had worms and almost died!

-Kathy

 

[Garden Peas]

I put three pumpkins in with Colbolt and Sage. They ate 2 and a little bit of the other pumpkin. They seem fine I haven't done a test to see how many parasites are in them. They kept eating them like a kid with candy until 2 weeks then they slowed down on the third. Thora got Garlic powder in her feed, I gave her 3 cloves. She's doing fine as well. Marshmallow got Safeguard though.

Not small, you're Halloween Jack o' Lanterns size.

If you haven't tested, you don't know.

@KsKingBee 's chick looked fine until the day before it died. By then, it was too late to save it with all the wormer in the world. The worms had terminally (fatally) damaged the insides of the chick. And he had been using Safeguard in the water... but not an effective dose.

By all means, supplement... but don't base "they are fine" on the birds not acting sick.

If you don't test, you don't know.

 

[thndrdancr]

Birdrain,
I think you have been just exceptionally lucky. I know they say pumpkin and garlic are natural wormers, I just don't think they are strong enough to do the job in most instances. They might help somewhat but if a bird gets an overload, its just not enough to do the trick.