Special THANKS to Flockwatcher and Dawg53 in regards to WORMING MY LADIES

[Chickmagnet9]

I don't know if this is where I post a THANK YOU, to Flockwatcher and Dawg53 so forgive me if I am incorrect.

I have had my ladies for 1 year so, they are all approximately 1 1/2 years old now. I've always let them free range and then supplement them with layer. I give them cracked corn for a treat every couple of days and feed them organic yogurt, cottage cheese or ricotta cheese about once a month just to keep their digestive flora and fauna healthy. I also give them Vit-Al vitamins in their water every day when I change it out and keep their beds and bodies dusted to help prevent mites.

Soon after I got the ladies, they started laying eggs. I have gotten 7-9 eggs a day, ever since until now! I started noticing a little fluffiness, runs or poops that look like mowed grass rather than their usual campfire marshmallows, and then I saw them. Little white tapeworms. They look like white dots and sometimes rice. When you bend down and get a closer look, they start moving!

Well, I called and then paid a visit to Bradshaw Feed and Pet Supply after I researched what Flockwatcher and Dawg53 had said. I knew I had to treat them with Valbazen.
Bradshaw Feed and Pet Supply ordered it for me and I had it in two days. Amy at
the feed store is especially knowledgable about chickens however; all the staff are extremely
helpful and can answer anything you have questions about and they load your
car or truck but, I digress.

Anyway, I picked it up tonight. I didn't want to syringe it down their throats because I thought it was going to taste icky so, I made a concoction of ricotta cheese, potato leak soup and one piece of whole grain bread all crumbled up. I mixed all of it, divided it in to 9 shares and then one by one, administered the recommended 1/2 cc per share. Ladies are such opportunists, it was no problem getting them to just eat (in a matter of seconds) what they thought was their special treat! Now, I need to toss breakfast for the next 24 days because another treatment is coming on day 11. I'm not thrilled about it however, I want my girls to be healthy and happy pets that I know them to me. Poor little punkins have worms but not for long. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, Flockwatcher and Dawg53, for your knowledge and your posts.

For any of you in the Sacramento, Wilton, Elk Grove, CA areas, Bradshaw Feed and Pet Supply is located at 7285 Bradshaw Road Sacramento, CA 95829 and can also be called at (916) 369-8225. I just feel I need to plug this place and give credit where credit is due. They have helped me numerous times and have outstanding customer service.

Most Sincerely,
Chickmagnet9

 

[gryeyes]

Bradshaw Feed is my absolute favorite feed store. Amy has purchased fertile hatching eggs from me for her broody hens and often gives my number out to others who need the same "service." (With my permission, of course. This is for folks with no roosters and who wish to make their broody hen(s) happy. They're mixed breeds - "chick surprise" I call 'em.)

I took a photo essay of Bradshaw Feed's renovation of the chick sales area last year, posted it here on BYC. It was such an improvement over every other feed store around, as far as I'm concerned. (Chicken nipple watering, glass fronted drawers for each group of chicks, etc.)

ALL the employees are friendly, helpful, and if they don't know the answer to a question, they will say so and try to find the answer. They were all thrilled when I reported I had hatched chicks from Trader Joe's refrigerated fertile eggs back on New Year's Day 2011, too.

Amy found a new home for two of my roosters, too - so I'm indebted to her. The boys didn't even have to spend any time in the "Roosters for Sale" cages.

I cannot praise this business enough. Awesome feed store!!

 

[Chickmagnet9]

Gryeyes, I am so glad you saw this and agree! I hope others will as well. I don't know what the heck happened to my post up above. So many words look like jibjab! I am glad you could decipher.

Funny, you should mention a broody. I have had one for 2 days now. We do not and will not have a rooster; all eggs are non-fertile. I just read how to stop her from being broody for a time and I will do it because it's unhealthy for her to sit for so long with no result. It's my husbands dream to get fertile eggs and put them under the ladies so they can have babies. Truthfully, the babies would be for him. I am not willing to do that until we start losing our hens which hopefully, will not be for a few years. My limit is what it is and we have a Bohemian Sheperd as well as, a JRT who would just LOVE to "play" with the little peeps. No thanks. I am amazed that you hatched refrigerated, fertile, store bought eggs from Trader Joes. That cracks me up!

Chickmagnet9