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Where do you buy Valbazen?
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I have laying hens 6 months old and a younger batch coming up. This isn't my 1st rodeo however I had hen for 4 years & decided to start afresh as they had slowed down & I gave that batch to a newbie.
I sell my eggs to friends requiring natual foods due to variosu health problems....also why I got them for my fam in the 1st place.
I use cider vinegar in the water DE in the food as well as spreading liberaly in run & coop while using the deep litter method & dusting their fannies well.
I have never had any sign of worms of any kind.
I will be adding pumpkin seeds for good measure....any other sugestions for those of us steering away from meds?
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Where do you buy Valbazen?
Thanks.
I agree with you on the worming. I have never wormed mine & they are 2 1/2 years old. I have had fecal checks ran on them from my vet & all were negative. I just had one ran about a month ago & it is not expensive. I know from all my years in horses that worming just to be worming is bad. In fact you are really building up super worms, the same principal as superbugs that antibiotics can't touch now. Every time you worm a certain amount will survive & those will be more resistant to wormers. You keep worming & worming & you are actually building more super worms that are more & more resistant. I would never worm without having fecal checks ran & know that I have a need to worm.I have never wormed a chicken and never will. I believe a healthy chicken should be able to support a reasonable worm load without it causing troubles. Using wormer on a regular basis usually ends up with resistant worms and eventually nothing works. I have seen it happen in goats over the years. From my experience worms only become a problem when there's some other underlying problem with the bird. It is interesting to see how common worming chickens has become over the last 10 years.
Edited to add that, I view my chickens as livestock and manage them as livestock(ex farmer). I think if you view them as pets than it might be different, but I still would do a fecal first like I do in my dogs if I did it.
I've had chickens live to almost 10 years of age with never being wormed. Nature knows what it is doing. I always speak from my experiences with keeping goats. I have had goats die from worms, worming them did nothing, they still died or needed to be put down. Breeding for resistance is a better option. I keep my own chickens to have clean food, putting chemicals in them doesn't make sense to me.I agree with you on the worming. I have never wormed mine & they are 2 1/2 years old. I have had fecal checks ran on them from my vet & all were negative. I just had one ran about a month ago & it is not expensive. I know from all my years in horses that worming just to be worming is bad. In fact you are really building up super worms, the same principal as superbugs that antibiotics can't touch now. Every time you worm a certain amount will survive & those will be more resistant to wormers. You keep worming & worming & you are actually building more super worms that are more & more resistant. I would never worm without having fecal checks ran & know that I have a need to worm.
Also the conditions they are kept in has a lot to do with it. Mine free range & their coop is cleaned daily. If they are living in so much of their own poop the more likely for worms.
I only differ with you in that mine are pets...tooooo much so LOL.