Eggs during worming

[GardenWeasel]

Here I sit with 21 eggs on the counter. I am worming with safeguard goat wormer, Is there any reason some animal could not eat these? Maybe find someone with a dog or goat that could use 100 plus eggs until they are safe to consume and sell again. Such a waste.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

we usually "worm downstream" - meaning.... we'll use the milk from a chemical-wormed goat to the chickens or pigs. or dogs if we havent wormed them recently.

how long is the recommended egg-with holding period?

 

[GardenWeasel]

Worming is 3 days of 3cc to a gallon of water for 3 days. It is for goats and the bottle says do not slaughter for meat for 6 days after dosing so I imagine 9 days for eggs also. I would think they would be in sync.

 

[patandchickens]

Personally I scramble/cook them and feed them back to the chickens. Extra protein treat

Pat

 

[rhoda_bruce]

I don't pay much mind to all those warnings and it hasn't killed me yet. (Yes I know....I should be ashamed). Well...maybe you can just put them all to incubate and have a bunch of fuzzy butts to sell in 3 weeks. I would have a problem losing all that value too.

 

[big brown horse]

Personally I scramble/cook them and feed them back to the chickens. Extra protein treat

Pat

Wait, wouldn't that just add to the problem? Then what would you do with the new eggs that came from chickens that ate the tainted eggs?

Am I missing something? Are you deworming chickens with goat dewormer? Or giving the goat milk from a dewormed goat to the chickens?

Confused as usual. :/

 

[Marianne]

I worm hens with Wazine. The recommended 'hold' time for eggs after that is two weeks. But in every other country of the world, the recommended hold time is one week. Guess the USA wants to err on the side of extreme caution on this one.

I just scramble them and give them back to the hens or to the dogs.

 

[Boogity]

Maybe this is a little off topic but . . .
Do you guys de-worm your chickens on a regular basis? We have had chickens off-and-on for many years and I have never used any type of de-wormer stuff. Do you dig through the chicken poop to check for worms? Each time I clean a chicken for the diner table I inspect the innards for parasites but I have never found any. Maybe this old guy should go to chicken school

 

[patandchickens]

Personally I scramble/cook them and feed them back to the chickens. Extra protein treat

Pat

Wait, wouldn't that just add to the problem? Then what would you do with the new eggs that came from chickens that ate the tainted eggs?

I am not sure what "problem" you mean? There isn't really a problem, just human disinclination to consume eggs with trace amounts of wormer in them.

The eggs really have only TRACE amounts though and feeding them back to the chickens is not going to make a difference to the eggs they then lay. If you are really wigged at the thought of any infinitesimal trace of *anything* in the eggs then just do it for longer <shrug>.

It doesn't really matter what kind of wormer you are using, this works for anything (assuming whatever you were using is safe for chickens in the first place of course )

Pat

 

[GardenWeasel]

I don't routinely worm my chickens but noticed unusual behavior and had a death. When 2 barred rock girls stood at the back door and were yawning and gaping I didn't know what it was but that was what the pullet that died did only once that I witnessed. Thank God for the internet and sites like these. The eggs I speak of are from the chickens I am treating with goat wormer at a weaker dose. I just thought it wasteful to throw them in the trash.