Treating Your Chickens for Worms Organically with Garlic

[Country Heart]

Good article...

Treating Your Chickens for Worms Organically and Effectively with Garlic
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1806628/worming_chickens_naturally.html?cat=5

 

[CheerfulHeart2]

Thank you. Very nice. Has anyone tried this method?

 

[chickendude]

I don't think your eggs will taste to good if they eat garlic.

 

[Msbear]

I do. And, the chickens love love love it!! They peck at all the little garlicc pieces, eating the all up in a frenzy

 

[CheerfulHeart2]

Do your eggs taste like garlic? Do you do it everyday for week or are you on a different schedule? This is most interesting.

 

[Msbear]

I rarely eat my eggs

They aren't really good layers so I hatch as many as I can. The ones I have eaten .... I don't recall tasting garlic but I eat a lot of garlic so maybe I wouldn't notice.

As for a regiment, Im really not sure I have it right. I add a tablespoon or so of minced garlic to their waterers and it may last two days. In a few weeks, I'll do it again. They would probably respond better as a "treatment" if they were getting the garlic a full week then not worrying about for a few months or so but I think they enjoy it so much... so I add it whenever I think of it.

I belive it is also beneficial for external parasites like mites and lice, correct?