Eggs during worming

[ohiofarmgirl]

i'd love to hear your results, GW. so please keep us posted.

another thing i thought of... last year we found an old nest with about oh.. 75 eggs (so THATS where they were!) and we just dug a (deep) hole in the garden and buried them. we figured that they'd compost down, attract the worms, and add calcium to the soil. might be one way to handled the "held" eggs.

BBH - the chemical used to worm animals (and people!) is the same just packaged differently to make it easy to dose that particular animal. but you can use it across species if you can figure out the right dose for the % of the chemical.

i think i threw a monkey wrench into it when i said we use recently-wormed goat milk to "worm" then hens. i think i should have said.....

"you should be able to feed those eggs to another animal. we dont worm our hens but much like you could feed those eggs to another... we use our recently wormed-goat-milk to feed other animals and it hasnt been a problem."

clear as mud?

 

[patandchickens]

another thing i thought of... last year we found an old nest with about oh.. 75 eggs (so THATS where they were!) and we just dug a (deep) hole in the garden and buried them.

I did this too and learned two things. One, rats and skunks can dig REALLY DEEP when they have incentive. Two, next time I do it I'll make sure to crush the eggs thoroughly rather than burying them relatively whole, so they are not an attractive nuisance for long

BBH - the chemical used to worm animals (and people!) is the same just packaged differently to make it easy to dose that particular animal. but you can use it across species if you can figure out the right dose for the % of the chemical.

I use horse wormer to worm my chickens, actually (only when I suspect the chickens have a problem), and have even used horse wormer on myself (doing math to ensure proper dosage of proper chemical) for human pinworms

Pat

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

, and have even used horse wormer on myself

i've been known to do the same! my vet and i had a pretty big laugh about this. i can now say i'm worm free!

ha!

if my city friends only knew.......

 

[Cindlady2]

, and have even used horse wormer on myself

i've been known to do the same! my vet and i had a pretty big laugh about this. i can now say i'm worm free!

ha!

if my city friends only knew.......

Oh this is funny! My thoughts about "with holding eggs" is... We've probably been exposed to at least as many worm eggs as them and thousands of people in the U.S. (especially farmers) have parasites and don't even know it. Why not just eat the eggs and make sure we don't have worms! LOL And yes, they worm people with the same stuff! BTW... the eggs taste fine. I just don't sell eggs after worming but the family gets them!

How did I know my chickens had worms? I was sitting on the bench and one of my "pet" chickens came up to me, looked at me (sadly) turned around and pooped right in front of me! Yup... worms in the poop! LOL "Look Mom, I have worms!"

 

[Boogity]

. . . "Look Mom, I have worms!"

I love it!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

We've probably been exposed to at least as many worm eggs as them and thousands of people in the U.S. (especially farmers) have parasites and don't even know it.

this is what my vet and i were laughing about .... he said that up to 60% of the US population has been exposed to some kind of parasite - they just dont know it. we laughed and laughed.... at least we farm folks can call a spade a spade.

oh geez.

cindylady2 - what did you use to worm your clucks?

 

[MsPony]

Haha, I was powerpaking my horse, he spit out a huge glob right into my eye and open mouth! I was dewormed and learned to keep my mouth shut.
I use DE everyday for my hennies, no parasite issues!

 

[GardenWeasel]

Well folks treatment is completed. I had one girl still yawning and gave her 1/4 cc on a piece of bread yesterday. Hope it wasn't overkill. Others so far look good. Gave 3 18 packs of treatment day eggs to a customer for his dogs, he was happy and one of my customers said he doesn't care he wants them anyway. So I hope my girls will be fine. My husband said we will just start eating them anyway. I will keep you posted if treatment was totally effective. Thanks for all your wisdom.

 

[Cindlady2]

We've probably been exposed to at least as many worm eggs as them and thousands of people in the U.S. (especially farmers) have parasites and don't even know it.

this is what my vet and i were laughing about .... he said that up to 60% of the US population has been exposed to some kind of parasite - they just don't know it. we laughed and laughed.... at least we farm folks can call a spade a spade.

oh geez.

cindylady2 - what did you use to worm your clucks?

So true, and most of us don't even bother getting all grossed out about it either, ya' just deal with it and hope you caught it before they did any damage. Weird how so many think nothing of worming their dog or cat but if you tell them you wormed an animal that produces food, they think it's weird or gross. :/

I used Wazine for the round worms and when I suspected gape worm I went to ivermectin since I had just gotten 5 hens with scaly leg mites. I don't remember the doses off hand but I have them written down if you need them. What do you use?