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

[Beekissed]

I guess if I started having sick birds, I might suspect a worm issue but I've never had any all these years so I don't worm. At least, not with chemical dewormers. I can honestly say I've never seen a worm in an of the feces around here....could be because the dogs eat these chicken snacks before I get to see many of them!

Seriously, though....I've never wormed and my free range birds thrive well.

I'm wondering something. Do any of you deworm yourselves?

 

[joebryant]

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Like I said before, I'd never seen worms either, but my vet did a fecal test when she had my rooster for a week treating him for respiratory problems. She found that he had worms and recommended his and my other chickens' being wormed. So...

As for the dog, my dogs do the same thing. I read on Google to give dogs 1 ml of Valbazen per every ten pounds of body weight. My two corgis each weigh about 30#, so I gave them each 3 ml of Valbazen sprayed over/on two small bowls half filled with buttermilk. Simple as pie.

 

[halo]

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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.

It doesnt matter how many chickens, you just want enough that they can drink their fill for the day. If you have 5 chickens, you wouldnt need to mix up near as much as if you have 100.

 

[joebryant]

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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.

It doesnt matter how many chickens, you just want enough that they can drink their fill for the day. If you have 5 chickens, you wouldnt need to mix up near as much as if you have 100.

I would feel safer using what Valbazen recommends per pound of body weight, and give each standard-size chicken individually 1/2 ml and each Bantam (banty) 1/4 ml from an oral syringe (maybe 1/10 to 1/5 ml per small chicks).

 

[Beekissed]

So....do you all deworm yourselves this astringently as well?

 

[joebryant]

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If you mean do I take it myself, no, I don't. At 1 mg per every 10 pounds of body weight, I'd have to take 20 mg. I don't think that that would taste very good, and since there's nobody who's going to squirt it into my mouth and/or down my throat, I ain'ta gonna.
I would get some pills from my doctor. One time I did have to take some pills for worms after a trip to The Dominican Republic and swimming in a lagoon.

 

[Beekissed]

I was just curious. Most people feel like humans couldn't possibly have intestinal parasites but that their animals do. Ivermectin, pyrantel pamoate, etc. are also used on humans. Since every animal is a host for it's own particular parasite, I would venture to say that we all have worms also...whether you see them or not in your own feces.

Wouldn't it be expedient to just eat the eggs from your chickens that you have chemically dewormed and kill two birds.....er....two worms with one stone, or dose?

 

[Judy]

I'll just say I don't toss eggs.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Neither do I.

 

[Chicky131]

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Neither do I.

So y'all continue to eat the eggs your hens lay after they've been wormed?