Wormer and mite and louse salve you can make at home

[Rebel Soldier]

After a few request I have decided to let yall in on a secret thats been in our family for years with great results. To make your own wormer you will need the following: A can of RED DEVIL LYE [you may have to get this from a plumber, as it has be come illegal to sell over the counter in some states because the meth heads use it] 2- A bag of whole oats 3- a five gallon bucket.
fill 5 gallon bucket 1\2 full of oats
-take and put 1 tablespoon of lye to a gallon of water and cover the oats with the mixture. Usually about three gallons of water.
-stir up the mixture and cover the bucket and let it sit for three days. The oats will absorb the water and swell up. Dont pay any attention to the smell, the chickens will love it.
-withold feed for one feeding and feed each fowl a vienna sausage can full of the mixture. Repeat this process monthly. The fowl love it especially in the summer.I FEED SOAKED OATS ONCE A WEEK IN THE SUMMER MONTHS AND ADD THE LYE ONCE A MONTH. This has proven a effective method for 40 years. It worms the fowl without the side effects of normal worm medication. We also keep a teaspoon of clorox per gallon of water in our waterers at all times
MITE AND LOUSE SALVE
This is so simple, and works so well. Go to the dollar store and purchase a large container of petroleum jelly[non-medicated]
2- buy 5%sevin dust at your local hardware.
3-melt the petroleum jelly in a boiler on the stove. When it becomes liquid, add the sevin dust and stir well. Remove heat and it will return to its salve form
4-apply to fowl under wings at the joints, around the anus area, around the oiler at the base of the tail.
Hope this helps! THE REBEL SOLDIER

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

I'll have to try this! I already use Seven, but one hen isn't quire getting it.

Thanks for this info!

 

[Roxannemc]

Thanks for the tip but the Sevin how much do you add ?.

 

[Cocklebur]

After a few request I have decided to let yall in on a secret thats been in our family for years with great results. To make your own wormer you will need the following: A can of RED DEVIL LYE [you may have to get this from a plumber, as it has be come illegal to sell over the counter in some states because the meth heads use it] 2- A bag of whole oats 3- a five gallon bucket.
fill 5 gallon bucket 1\2 full of oats
-take and put 1 tablespoon of lye to a gallon of water and cover the oats with the mixture. Usually about three gallons of water.
-stir up the mixture and cover the bucket and let it sit for three days. The oats will absorb the water and swell up. Dont pay any attention to the smell, the chickens will love it.
-withold feed for one feeding and feed each fowl a vienna sausage can full of the mixture. Repeat this process monthly. The fowl love it especially in the summer.I FEED SOAKED OATS ONCE A WEEK IN THE SUMMER MONTHS AND ADD THE LYE ONCE A MONTH. This has proven a effective method for 40 years. It worms the fowl without the side effects of normal worm medication. We also keep a teaspoon of clorox per gallon of water in our waterers at all times
MITE AND LOUSE SALVE
This is so simple, and works so well. Go to the dollar store and purchase a large container of petroleum jelly[non-medicated]
2- buy 5%sevin dust at your local hardware.
3-melt the petroleum jelly in a boiler on the stove. When it becomes liquid, add the sevin dust and stir well. Remove heat and it will return to its salve form
4-apply to fowl under wings at the joints, around the anus area, around the oiler at the base of the tail.
Hope this helps! THE REBEL SOLDIER

You should have told how red and healthy their head and comb will get about week after the oats if they have never been wormed this way

 

[NurseBetsy]

Is there a withdrawal time for eggs after giving them the RDL soaked oats?

 

[nuthatched]

Is there a withdrawal time for eggs after giving them the RDL soaked oats?

Please do not use this method as a wormer or around your self or birds.

 

[dawg53]

When I raised hogs a long time ago, I used Red Devil lye to worm them. Fill a 55 gallon barrel half full of corn, then fill it up near the top with water. Then add a tablespoon of Red Devil lye and use a boat paddle to stir the mixture real well. Then wait a few days while the corn swelled with the treated water, then it's time to feed the hogs.
I wouldnt do it nowadays with the available wormers on the market, same with chickens.
The benzimidazoles are best for poultry.

 

[Davidvicknair]

Please do not use this method as a wormer or around your self or birds.

Why not, I’ve had chickens for over 30 years and what he said about worming is actually 100% legit. This is actually the way that people with gamefowl worm there birds. Just because it’s something that you can’t comprehend doesn’t make it wrong. Think, use your noggin. How you you think they used to worm chickens in the old days. You know that there was a time that worms pills or wormers where not available.

 

[nuthatched]

Why not, I’ve had chickens for over 30 years and what he said about worming is actually 100% legit. This is actually the way that people with gamefowl worm there birds. Just because it’s something that you can’t comprehend doesn’t make it wrong. Think, use your noggin. How you you think they used to worm chickens in the old days. You know that there was a time that worms pills or wormers where not available.

I guess I'm not too unfamiliar with chemistry and biology to know that feeding chickens a caustic solution is more likely to harm or even kill them than have any positive anthelmintic success. Not too unfamiliar with animal historical husbandry to know that worming chickens is actually a relatively new phenomenon since most folk cycled out old birds for young and they didn't actually live long enough for worms to really be an issue. And that most methods used during those eras really didn't work, as scientific progress was just starting to look towards Agriculture and testing wasn't even close to what we had even 30 years ago. most practices have been thoroughly debuked or passed over for better methods.
Honestly, just because a method has been used a long time or recommend by (tongue in cheek) "experts", doesn't mean it's effective or even safe. History of use isn't a qualifier of quality or efficacy, unfortunately. Just means it was used.