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Mark

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I need to worm my laying hens but the medicine says to not use the eggs after treatment.....well, for how long is anybodies guess. Any suggestions? The dope is Piperazine-17.
 
WARNING: Do not medicate prior to slaughter within 14 days for turkeys and chickens and 21 days for swine. [b:654c4848f0]Do not use in chickens producing eggs for human consumption.[/b:654c4848f0]

It does not give a time line. It says do not use.
Piperazine-17 only works on roundworms anyway. I think I would get some differant stuff.
 
verm-x in liquid or pellet form.
Google "worming laying hens" for additional info.
www.verm-x.com for online supplies.
 
Thanks for the replies.

I did do a Google search after I made this post last night.

Seems the USDA or some other alphabet agency deems that chicken "tissue" so treated should not be consumed for 14 days after treatment. Well....I am sure they are referring to the meat....but since the egg/ova is connected to the chicken"s system and absorbing the medicine.....I"d think the time frame would apply to eggs as well. I am not going to sacrifice 2 weeks of egg production.

My hens don"t appear unhealthy and are laying fine...I have 17 and am getting 12-14 eggs a day....even during the winter. That"s about as good as it gets.

As for ONLY killing roundworms.......they seem to be the most common worm a chicken contracts anyway, according to the information I read.

And for what it is worth.......the amount of medicine present in the flesh of a chicken after 14 days amounted to 13,000 (thirteen thousand) times less than what the USDA deems harmful to humans.
 
We're not chicken farmers, but over the last ten years or so, we have raised a few thousand chickens, both egg layers and meat birds. We have never wormed a single one and never have had any serious problems other than dogs and raccoons, in that order. Keep them well fed, make sure they have access to minerals and keep them out of drafts in cold or damp weather and they'll do just fine.

Christopher
 
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