- Sep 18, 2010
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Hi
For some complicated reasons, my rooster and one hen are currently isolated from the rest of the flock. I treated everyone with wazine last Thursday, so I have been throwing out the few eggs that have been laid. This morning, the hen and the rooster spent a hour or more hanging out in the hen house, arranging a nest, talking, and doing whatever it is they do, and she laid an egg in the nest. He's very interested in the nest. She's an Americana. Here's my question: will eggs from chickens treated with dewormer hatch normally? And should I even bother to see what happens? It's late January and I live in SC, but Feb is still our coldest month. I could keep her and chicks warm if I had to, but I'm not planning to move her out of her unheated hen house unless I have to! I figured it wouldn't hurt anything to leave the eggs and see what happens, see if she goes broody, but I didn't want to trigger the instint by leaving the eggs on the nest if they are going to be harmed by the wormer. I also didnt' want to do it if it's just entirely too early to brood eggs.
For some complicated reasons, my rooster and one hen are currently isolated from the rest of the flock. I treated everyone with wazine last Thursday, so I have been throwing out the few eggs that have been laid. This morning, the hen and the rooster spent a hour or more hanging out in the hen house, arranging a nest, talking, and doing whatever it is they do, and she laid an egg in the nest. He's very interested in the nest. She's an Americana. Here's my question: will eggs from chickens treated with dewormer hatch normally? And should I even bother to see what happens? It's late January and I live in SC, but Feb is still our coldest month. I could keep her and chicks warm if I had to, but I'm not planning to move her out of her unheated hen house unless I have to! I figured it wouldn't hurt anything to leave the eggs and see what happens, see if she goes broody, but I didn't want to trigger the instint by leaving the eggs on the nest if they are going to be harmed by the wormer. I also didnt' want to do it if it's just entirely too early to brood eggs.
