Worming

[dawg53]

Grandpa knew better and rotating pasture can only go so far. Honestly, I never used to worm my hogs and chickens many years ago. I didnt keep them long enough to worm them, off to the butcher they went to fill our freezers. Then when I kept only one or two hogs for a couple of years, I'd use Red Devil lye to worm them. Then a few years later, off to the butcher they'd go...excellent sausage.

 

[casportpony]

http://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/organic/national-list/petitioned

-Kathy

 

[shortgrass]

Grandpa knew better and rotating pasture can only go so far. Honestly, I never used to worm my hogs and chickens many years ago. I didnt keep them long enough to worm them, off to the butcher they went to fill our freezers. Then when I kept only one or two hogs for a couple of years, I'd use Red Devil lye to worm them. Then a few years later, off to the butcher they'd go...excellent sausage.

Oh now see you're getting somewhere lol...lye would most definitely work but most don't know how what when where ... Lol yikes that's the problem nowadays, everybody wants convenient and easy and fail to do their own research to find other options besides the overused and overpriced concoctions that you can give thrm every month with no concern as to why you're even doing it in the first place

Yeah, the sheep mess up grazing rotation, have to stay 5miles away from anything remotely organic, can't use the poo on certified fields... Ugh it's a headache lol..

The only thing keeping the sheep out of the certified loop (and leading to their likely future culling) is...grandpa and the wormer.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Is that what people with sheep do?

-Kathy

 

[dawg53]

Red Devil lye was easy to administer, really. Half way fill a 55 gallon drum with corn, fill it full of water and let it sit over night. Then the next day add one tablespoon of Red Devil lye to it and stir it with a boat paddle. Let it sit for another couple of days, then feed it to the hogs. That was before there were wormers at our feed store. Then the price of corn shot up through the roof when we stopped selling corn to the commie Russians. Then it was time sell the piglets and a couple of sows, the rest went to the butcher.

Now that wormers are available and worms/eggs are ALWAYS prevalent in the soil, and it's natural for animals to pick up worm eggs...thank goodness there are wormers to get rid of parasites.
http://www.thecattlesite.com/diseaseinfo/214/gut-worms-parasitic-gastroenteritis-or-pge/

 

[casportpony]

You know... I've read alot of these worming war posts and I just have to say my 2 cents and sneak back out of the bickering,...

I am an organic producer. The way a certain few members seem to push and shove and try to force chemicals down peoples throats and then call them stupid or make fun of them for not doing it... Let me tell you how stupid it is to keep pouring chemicals into an animal that doesn't even need it and what its doing to the whole healthy ecosystem that these birds belong to.

The general LACK of knowledge of that concept is what leaves so many if you scrambling for wormers to cycle through every month...

ROFL so much money wasted on fecals and wormers, when soil and flock health makes it all moot.

Have a great day, enjoy spending your paycheck on wormers lol

What would you suggest people do when they have a sick bird and can't afford to take it or it's poop to a vet?

-Kathy

 

[MrsBrooke]

What would you suggest people do when they have a sick bird and can't afford to take it or it's poop to a vet?

-Kathy

Put them on a sterile field without worms/eggs.

Quote: shortgrass
MrsB

 

[casportpony]

I just feel really sad for those that think their birds are parasite free because they've used one or more of the following:

• Pumpkin seed
• ACV
• Garlic
• Cayenne pepper
• Verm-X
• DE
• Wazine
• 3cc Safeguard per gallon
• Ivermectin

-Kathy

 

[MrsBrooke]

I just feel really sad for those that think their birds are parasite free because they've used one or more of the following:

• Pumpkin seed
• ACV
• Garlic
• Cayenne pepper
• Verm-X
• DE
• Wazine
• 3cc Safeguard per gallon
• Ivermectin

-Kathy

You forgot something.

MrsB

 

[enola]

She forgot the glitter. . . . . .