Worm Treatment

[Hils]

The ingredients of Battles Poultry Easyverm are: Garlic, Thyme, Mint, Elecampane, Echinacea, Wormwood, Cinnamon, Aniseed, Ginger, Iron Sulphate, Calcium Carbonate and Wheat...So maybe it would be good to grow these and let your flock seek their own medicine. I'm thinking specifically for my quail. Any thoughts anyone?

 

[lbgreenfield]

Hi. Interesting thought on the herbs/natural remedies, although most times these natural treatments for worms/parasites are ineffective. I can’t speak for quail though (I only have chickens).

 

[Hils]

Hi. Interesting thought on the herbs/natural remedies, although most times these natural treatments for worms/parasites are ineffective. I can’t speak for quail though (I only have chickens).

Maybe good for prevention then, rather than cure!

 

[Chicalina]

I usually buy a proprietary feed which contains supplements like this as an ongoing prevention step and it works great

 

[dawg53]

I usually buy a proprietary feed which contains supplements like this as an ongoing prevention step and it works great

When your birds get worms, use Flubenvet. It's a very good wormer.

 

[Chicalina]

When your birds get worms, use Flubenvet. It's a very good wormer.

They don't usually because I prevent it. Prevention is better than cure!

But yes absolutely, if I saw evidence of worms or even likelihood, then I give them worming medicine

 

[Hils]

I usually buy a proprietary feed which contains supplements like this as an ongoing prevention step and it works great

What is the name of that feed?

 

[Chicalina]

It is here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GD7STHK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_btf_t1_E1lwFbK5KF4TX

Range Layers with Vermx by Copdock Mill. BUT...i am in the UK and you will need to search for your equivalent in the US. Also I don't pay anything like Amazon's charge when I buy this from my local feed store. It is the same price give or take, from the other feeds.

 

[Hils]

Range Layers with Vermx by Copdock Mill. BUT...i am in the UK and you will need to search for your equivalent in the US. Also I don't pay anything like Amazon's charge when I buy this from my local feed store. It is the same price give or take, from the other feeds.

Ah...Thanks..I'm in England, Stoke-on-Trent, so it may be at my pet supplies store, but maybe a bit big for my quails. I use 2mm pellets and most chicken feed is 3mm. But thanks anyway.

 

[Araucana Nest]

A medicinal garden for the hens is a great idea. I might just do that for mine, since they loved my medicinal garden so much they trampled it I wouldn't grow anything that might cause issues if fed on indiscriminately though, like wormwood... not sure of the others. I'd have to read on these.

Herbs are good preventative medicines. In Cuba, my forebears used black peppercorns, pumpkin seeds and herbs like oregano. I don't know if they actually worked; I was too young to observe these things. My mother can't remember everything her parents did but she remembers they an herbal cure for something she describes as similar to sour crop.