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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: suomi on November 28, 2008, 09:28:58 am

Title: garlic and ginger for chickens?
Post by: suomi on November 28, 2008, 09:28:58 am

Hi,  we have 23 chickens all healthy, but because its winter here they now have to be inside for the next 6 months! they are not happy!
I give them layers pellets, corn, cooked pasta, greens also they have applecider vinegar in their water. my question is if I chop up garlic and ginger can I give it raw mixed in with their food, and how much can I give them?  dont want ginger flavoured eggs!!
thanks.

Title: Re: garlic and ginger for chickens?
Post by: Birdie Wife on November 28, 2008, 12:36:14 pm

Hi suomi,
I haven't heard of anyone else giving ginger to chickens - garlic yes, ginger...  ??? dont' see why it would do any harm.  The normal procedure for garlic is to peel a clove and put it in their drinking water.  Maybe you could alternate with the ACV? One week AVC, one week garlic, etc. It's supposed to not flavour the eggs. Where are you anyways?  My chickens are outside in the winter and I'm in the far north - they are hardy little chooks up here.  Mind you, they don't like it much and if I had the space and time for mucking out then I'd probably be thinking about keeping them in too   ;)

Title: Re: garlic and ginger for chickens?
Post by: doganjo on November 28, 2008, 12:42:34 pm

I'm in Central Scotland now, but was in Aberdeenshire till Spring - I have only rarely kept my chooks and dooks inside - they actually enjoy the snow!  Have never given them garlic - what is it for?  Dogs can have garlic tablets to stave off infections - is that it?

Title: Re: garlic and ginger for chickens?
Post by: Hilarysmum on November 28, 2008, 05:28:01 pm

Dogandjo, for worms

Title: Re: garlic and ginger for chickens?
Post by: Rosemary on November 28, 2008, 08:01:33 pm

I don't keep my chooks in - type of houses I have, I can't but they have shelter and seem fine even in bad weather. They have no expectation of being warm and dry, unlike us.

I give my horse garlic - general tonic, respiration, worms. Oh, and fly repellant.

Title: Re: garlic and ginger for chickens?
Post by: suomi on November 29, 2008, 03:15:45 pm

thanks for the replys.
Im in FINLAND!     winters here get down to minus 25oc, so have to keep the chooks in a nice warm house!  they stay in untill begining of june, then they can be out in the open as all the migrating wild birds have arrived by then.
they are in a nice room atached to the barn we have a woodburner next door to them ant we try to keep the temperature in the cicken house between 5-9oc. we do the deeplitter system, so kilos of woodshavings on the floor.

Title: Re: garlic and ginger for chickens?
Post by: Birdie Wife on December 01, 2008, 02:06:22 pm

WOW!  I see why you'd want to keep your chickens inside.  Mind you, I should have guessed by your username where you are from  ;) 

Title: Re: garlic and ginger for chickens?
Post by: doganjo on December 01, 2008, 08:31:53 pm

Yes, my friend, Cecilie, in Sweden, has her chickens indoors too now.  Just remembered that.  BRRRRR.................. ;)

Title: Re: garlic and ginger for chickens?
Post by: Rosemary on December 01, 2008, 08:35:59 pm

And I thought it was cold HERE!