So how many of you eat the eggs after worming?

[lcammack]

I don't know, I am new to this forum and not very tech savy, but if anyone else knows how I would be happy to try. I was thinking the same thing. Lots do but hardly any admit to it!

 

[Crippledturkey]

If some of the medication survives after you injest it and evacuate it, what about the bacteria in a healthy septic system? Those billions of little bacteria that worked very hard to turn lastnights Chicken and Corn dinner into a slurry that can be pumped every couple of years. I know you enjoy your eggs wormed or not, BUT THINK ABOUT THE BACTERIA they have rights too!!!

That was my best attempt at posting an anti reply. I have not run across this yet but when I do I am sure I have no qualms with eating the eggs. Now do you feed these eggs back to the chickens or could it overdose them on wormer?

 

[lcammack]

We haven't fed them back to the chickens, we only do that if they get broke by one of us. Fingers crossed we have not broke any in a while... I don't think it would overdose them because the initial amounts for worming are dosed very loosely, 1/2 cc for standards and a 1/4cc for smaller birds. I think even the definition of standard could very quite a bit. Then there is the question like Imp put it, how much actually "survives" and makes it all the way to the egg? There is nothing I could find that said what levels would actually be harmful or considered an overdose, I am sure there is, I just couldn't find it.

 

[Crippledturkey]

Some of my hens are going through a mini first year moult and thier eggs are on the small size so I give the small ones back to them for extra protein or give them to my dog. Just for future reference on my part. I love this site, it has helped me a great deal, and expand on what I already knew.

 

[rolffamily]

I eat the eggs after worming......better than eating the worms!

 

[Cuccismith]

I have been dosing them one at a time so i don't have to throw them all out!!! OMG
I will only wait a week now... My vet said 2 weeks after the eggs are safe.
I hate throwing them over the fence!

 

[Lums]

I use Eprinex pour on (product 67641) for beef and dairy cattle to be put on back of neck of chicken under the feathers on bare skin. It gets worms, mites, lice and all others we usually worm for and treat for as external parasites.

Best is you can eat the eggs the next day.

Or, on all other types of animals, drink the milk, eat the meat, the next day after using this. Also good on other farm creatures like on your dog for worms, ticks or fleas. Put on skin where neck hits back.

I use 1/2 ml on a regular size chicken, double the amount needed but the amount of overage is very forgiving but I know, "wasteful". Use a 3 ml syringe minus needle and that will do 6 chickens or as recommended by maker, 12 chickens at 1/4 ml per. Cost $41.00 for enough to do about 500 treatments. Recommended once or twice a year by maker.

Fill free to call them and speak to to an advisor as directions on container are for large amounts of chickens.