When Do You Deworm?

[hippichick]

It's apple cider vinegar, the kind with the "mother". Not the kind you get at the grocery store? Not sure where to buy it, maybe a health food store? Anyway, I'm not sure it's a wormer, but it's supposed to be all-around good stuff for chickens. I think you put like 1/4 cup per gallon of drinking water.

Paula

 

[LittleChickenRacingTeam]

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I don't know if vinegar works as a wormer, but at least it is WAY CHEAPER than the snake oil salesman's DE.

I've never used DE, & neither did our grandparents. I think that says a lot.

 

[seminolewind]

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I don't know if vinegar works as a wormer, but at least it is WAY CHEAPER than the snake oil salesman's DE.

I've never used DE, & neither did our grandparents. I think that says a lot.

I have always wondered that as well. If DE doesn't work when it's wet, why do people put it in chicken feed? I mean the inside of a chicken must be wet.

 

[LittleChickenRacingTeam]

Exactly my thoughts

 

[ella]

I would think vinegar in a plastic waterer (don't put it in galvanized) would make an unsuitible enviroment for bacteria, algae and viruses. Which would make for generally healthier water. I wouldn't trust it to kill any parasites though.

I worm in the fall when the migrating birds start gathering in the trees in the chicken yard. I have had lice or mite problems every fall.

It doesn't help that the girls are molting and the temps are dropping all at the same time.

I use Eprinex; quick, easy and effective.

 

[scubagirl]

I deworm my chickens whenever I see runny or gooy poo that doesn't look normal.

I use dewormer that you put in the water. I get it from my local farm feed store. It is the same wormer used for swine, poultry, cattle etc. Of course I only use a capful for 3 gallons of water.

 

[leslie]

I recently wormed my chickens with Wazine... lady at feed store recommended it..(of course) After I added it to the water the chickens gulped it down and then I got scared. What have I done?
The directions clearly said "do not use in chickens producing eggs for human consumption". It did not say dont eat eggs for a week.. month or ever. so Im left to think that maybe Ive done something that leaves the eggs unfit for human consumption.... period. end of sentence.. thats all folks.
forever?
a week?
a month?
I wish i had never used it. As posted on another section of byc My chickens have stopped laying completely and have laid few eggs for months now. And I processed a young rooster last week and he was so skinny I was shocked.
I feed my stock the best the feed store has. And often and plenty... and he was so very skinny. The feed store woman asked me if I had wormed lately and I have never wormed. So its done. the one or so egg I get each week will be thrown away and that alone will gag me. I dont even know if i can feed it to Straydawg who wants them so badly.
I dont know if I had worms or not. I know that I have to worm my dogs and cats regularly so why not the chickens? I know that something is wrong. The absence of eggs and the skinny rooster (who looked fat with his feathers on)..
So When do YOU worm and how and to the fellow who objects to DE.. I didnt think it could be the wonder thing its made out to be. I never did buy any and Im glad now. Even if its only one opinion Ive read against it. It just didnt sound possible to me to be so wonderful if no one in my family of chicken raisers had ever heard of it.

 

[leslie]

I do know for a fact that vinegar is good for a body... Ive felt badly before.. weak and kinda sick to my stomach and kinda just blah..and eating somethng with vinegar in it.. like just mustard if nothing else will make me feel better. Seems to give me a lift.
and I know that mustard or just vinegar will help with a diet. takes my appetite away somewhat. I can be very hungry for a snack and just take a spoon of mustard and it will quench my hunger.

 

[silkiechicken]

Any "dual" non meat bird will be "skinny". They should be skinny. Their breast should be a V, not a flat U like store birds in the meat section. If they are moving around, lively, eating, having fun, they are fine. If you can feel what is like a pencil on their breast bone and the sides are sunken in like a Y, then they are skinny and then you take action.

That said, some say you can eat eggs 10 days later, some say wait 30. Drop in production at this time of year is often normal. Less day light, moulting, aging, weather, all result in reduced egg production. Labels say never because they don't test it on chickens so to cover their bums, they say never. Some production breeds only lay well for the first year or so and then drop drastically. Perhaps they are hiding eggs too. If you suspect internal parasites, a fecal float test shouldn't be that expensive.

On "alternative" treatments. Some swear by them, some don't believe in them. I grew up on western and eastern medicine, and I believe western medicine is "safer" because it is tested again and again despite the few deaths per 100 thousand people the drugs have saved. I've found things like Mercury listed on things ingested in the eastern medicine, don't let anyone try to feed you snake gall bladder either, that stuff is disgusting.

I personally have not wormed my chickens ever and they do fine as far as I can tell.

 

[Cetawin]

Okay..first,

DE will kill fleas and other parasites and is a MAJOR organic gardening implement.

Secondly, DE

merely helps with internal parasites but does not replace wormers and so forth

and third,

Apple Cider Vinegar (not distilled or white) is a great aid in digestion. Not only in animals but also in humans. You could safely take 1 teaspoonful per day to ease an upset stomach, cleanse the stomach and colon and so forth. Mix 1 teaspoon per gallon.

My girls have it in their water every day since 1 week old and I have never had the first poo problem.