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Livestock => Other => Topic started by: langdon on June 04, 2010, 07:16:57 pm

Title: worming chicks
Post by: langdon on June 04, 2010, 07:16:57 pm

how old are are chicks normally when they are first wormed?
thanks langdon :chook:

Title: Re: worming chicks
Post by: woollyval on June 13, 2010, 08:08:33 pm

urm.....I have never wormed chicks and rarely poultry....in clean conditions it should not be needed surely :-\

Title: Re: worming chicks
Post by: Helencus on June 24, 2010, 08:19:48 am

Langdon I add Verm-x to feed every month for all my birds. Chicks can pick up worms from soil so I did mine a few weeks after they first went out.

Title: Re: worming chicks
Post by: dixie on June 24, 2010, 10:03:16 am

I do mine every march and september so they all get done at the same time irrespective of age.