TREAT THEM FOR WORMS NOW -Molting - short days - few or no eggs anyway

[buckaroo's wife]

Newbie question: Is a fecal sample the only way to tell if your flock has worms? Mine free range, and I saw in a previous post that if chickens free range the probability of worms is high...I have never wormed my flock (they were hatched in February and March of this year) so....is this something I should do? How long can I not eat their eggs after worming?

 

[joebryant]

buckaroo's wife :

Newbie question: Is a fecal sample the only way to tell if your flock has worms? Mine free range, and I saw in a previous post that if chickens free range the probability of worms is high...I have never wormed my flock (they were hatched in February and March of this year) so....is this something I should do? How long can I not eat their eggs after worming?

If it were I, I would. After all, they're almost a year old. You toss their eggs for three weeks.

CORRECTION on Dec. 4th: Toss eggs for 14 days after giving wazine and 14 days after giving valbazen= 28 days total. The exception to this is that on the 10th day after wazine you may give the valbazen, then it's 14 days from the start of the valbazen= 24 days total.​

 

[halo]

A vet told me to put 5 cc Valbazen is a gallon of water to worm chickens. She said leave it for one full day. I do that once a year.

I don't like to over-worm anything. I think animals have a pretty good immune system if you don't tinker with it too much. Too much worming won't give animals any chance to build up a natural immunity. And I dont think that animals are meant to be totally, 100%, worm free. That being said, I think there are situations where you probably do need to worm more frequently, especially if they are in a smaller area all the time, without the space to roam.

 

[trilyn]

I have read that if you worm chickens while they're molting that the feathers will come in differently/skewed. Is this true? If not, then I will worm them asap!

 

[joebryant]

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Yes, it's the exact, same thing as the first quart of buttermilk that you bought at the store. I've actually drunk a whole gallon of it in one day if it's hot out.
The buttermilk that I buy at the store though is not the same as the buttermilk I drank after my having helped my grandmother churn butter when I was a boy.

 

[joebryant]

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Wazine 17 is what you use to kill only roundworms before you use Vaibazen ten days later to kill all the other worms + new roundworms. See directions above.

 

[joebryant]

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This was answered by dawg53 in another post titled Worms:
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Ridgerunner wrote:

I'm not going to argue with the others. I'll just caution you to read the label carefully before you worm during a molt. One common wormer can cause the feathers to grow back curly and weird looking if you use it during a molt. I can't remember which one it is.

Dawg53 wrote:
You're correct Ridgerunner....fenbendazole, commonly sold as Safeguard.

 

[trilyn]

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This was answered by dawg53 in another post titled Worms:
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Ridgerunner wrote:

I'm not going to argue with the others. I'll just caution you to read the label carefully before you worm during a molt. One common wormer can cause the feathers to grow back curly and weird looking if you use it during a molt. I can't remember which one it is.

Dawg53 wrote:
You're correct Ridgerunner....fenbendazole, commonly sold as Safeguard.

Thank you very much!!

 

[elmo]

Our vet charges $20 for a fecal check. I'm not going to worm my flock until a test comes back positive.

 

[Judy]

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About how many chickens was she talking about when she said 5cc?

I feel pretty much the same for the rest. I figure both my chickens and I always have some worms.