OH MY GOODNESS!! A viewer posted a study but it went into my "held for review" folder. I approved it, but then I think RUclips deleted it because it contained a link. My apologies to that viewer but LOOK WHAT THEY FOUND! A study on chickens! More info/studies are needed but this is yet another promising piece of information.
I wanted to see the study but my system gave me an "unsafe link" message because of the site's certificate. Can you please list the name and author of the study here so that I can try to find it on a different site? Thanks in advance!
It's the pumpkin seeds that they need. I cut the pumpkins in half and set them in the chicken yard. An old timer told me the pumpkin seeds suspend the worms. Follow up with shredded carrots to expel the worms. It has worked for my chickens. I have been doing this for years.
@@krystlenicole9268 my chickens looked at me like I'd lost the plot when I gave them a halved pumpkin. I chop them up a bowl of cabbage every day. Cabbage is a chicken super food and once a month I mix in food grade DE and for the past four years since doing this have never had another worm. For those looking for another option.
AN EXCELLENT VIDEO!!! All of my fowl (chix, ducks, and geese) get DE added to each day's feed and vinegar in their water. I have never had a parasite problem in 7 yrs. My birds only get pumpkin in the fall. (end of the season).
I use pumpkin seeds (dried) for chickens, ducks, my dog, my cats, and my herd of goats. We also use freshly picked wormwood and diamacious earth powder. Blend them all up, mix with feed.. my farm is dewormed.
I've used the pumpking twice a year(spring and fall when the temps flex is when they seem to come) for 15 years and never had them in my flocks... I freeze one in fall and give it in spring.. 😁
I agree that going the natural route is the best for everybody. My Grandfather farmed with draft horses. This was way before the days when the made commercial dewormer. They gave their horses a plug of chewing tobacco to deworm them! I love your vlog Madam President I too rule a kingdom of six but will be adding a few more loyal subjects this Spring! ♥️👍🙏🇺🇸🤓
Yep, tobacco is what we we always used in all our animals!! Along with DE, black walnut hulls, Pau d Arco, flax seed (for the birds only) etc etc. Oh and ACV in their water and food.
Tyme for overall health! Also prevents cold issues, pepermint outside around the coop to ward off racoons, canine along with anti dig ( i use pavers and bricks ) around the outside skirt of the coop.
Delighted to open diplomatic relations with Chickenlandia and be able to converse directly with the President. Great work el-Presidenta. Keep it up. You are making the world better as I am watching from my small block in Perth Western Australia. Off now to find my old sprouting paraphernalia to make the girls some fresh goodies.
Dalia, you have done an incredible job with these videos. I am watched easily a dozen of these with my 10-year-old son as I am thinking about starting a chicken coop so we have fresh eggs and I have truly enjoyed watching these. Love the personality and how much passion you have for your chickens. It really shows in your videos. You definitely love what you do. Thanks for making these very helpful videos.
So often I hear that there are no published articles on something, when in fact, the statement should be (like you stated) “couldn’t find.” There are studies for just about everything out there, but unfortunately most scientific studies are not easily accessible to the general public. Many studies cost a pretty penny to obtain and are nothing like the write ups published about the studies in popular press platforms. Some are free, and many are accessible through academic institutions. The good news is, there are plenty of studies. I just finished reading one published in 2023. This study used 85 chickens divided into 4 groups. One control and three experimental. It concluded that a 50/50 ratio of squash and papaya seeds eliminated Intestinal parasites in Chickens 100%. This group was compared with a commercial dewormer group, a 75/25 ratio and 25/75 ratio of seeds. Not even did the commercial dewormer get rid of the problem like the 50/50 ratio of seeds did! Pretty cool, hah? Reference: Antihelmintic Effect of Squash Seeds (Cucurbita moschata) and Papaya Seeds (Carica papaya) in Gastrointestinal Parasites in Native Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). Charles Philip A Catedral, Renz Oliver L Gallego, Niko S De Asis, Christian Jess P Orrillante IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1208 (1), 012057, 2023
Diatomaceous earth in the dusting area and apple cider vinegar in the water...most issues with illness, bugs and disease come from lack of nutrition. Stop keeping so many birds. Keep a smaller flock *affording* to feed them better nutrition. The less territory and dirtiness issues make the hens less stressed out and they will lay better than a bigger flock of mite infested birds.
Thanks for your videos. I’m in northeast Ohio and hoping to start a flock next spring. I guess I don’t have enough going on with work, gardening and bees! So let’s add some chickens. I have learned a lot watching your videos
As always, thanks for sharing but more importantly, digging into this deworming debate. I wholeheartedly agree that the most important thing to do is provide a healthy environment for your chickens. That alone will minimize a lot of the issues common to chicken herding. Love ya lady!
I had a bumper pumpkin and squash crop in my garden this past year. They get full-feed whole oats and I have been cutting up the surplus pumpkins, boiling them till they are soft, and putting in some whole rice or wheat, table scraps and they love it. Still getting eggs at -20 below zero from my Buff Orpington hens that I hatched out in my incubator, so I think the extra energy helps. I also eat pumpkin or squash every day myself, cutting them into pieces, and frying them in my frying pan with eggs and turmeric, cumin, garlic, onion, cinnamon, and other spices on it. I never get tired of it.
My veterinarian told me to offer canned pumpkin to my cats as a dewormer... "if they'll eat it." Which they won't. But the chicken do LOVE pumpkin, whether the pumpkin deworms them or not!
Yes. Mine said the same. He said it works for dogs too. The dogs devour it. I have to parse it out to the cats by mixing it a little at a time into wet canned cat food. 😂 I give it to all of them and the chickens once a month.
Hi, I’m trying a natural product from “the poultry store” Called all natural dewormer. It is made in the us and not too expensive. It smells wonderful, almost like a rub u would put on meet to barbecue. I add it to their feed a couple days a week for 2 weeks. So far so good, but the girls are also nibbling out pumpkins
The Verm-X parent company licensed a company in the US to make it here. However the FDA would not approve it unless it was formulated to be a daily supplement. So I keep them original liquid on hand as well as the original UK version for 3 days each month pelleted top dressing. I love the smell of the UK Verm-X pellets.
I really enjoy getting information on my hens from your vlog. I've had hens for 18 years and love getting a variety of information. I either get new info or confirm prior knowledge. You GO PRESIDENT or Queen of Chickenlandia
Great video thank you. I just gave my chickens a pumpkin a couple days ago and they would not touch it the only thing they wanted where the seats and they ate them all.
Since as a kid we gave pumpkin twice a year to our chickens and I still do it to this day. Never once have my chickens had worms nor health issues. But that also comes from general hygiene practices of their home as well.
Yup. DE good in their food and coop even, sometimes their dust bowl and vinegar and ACV in their water. My chickens love pumpkin though so they get both.
a dewormer I used on a 2-week-old baby chick was NOW brand "green" black walnut wormwood complex tincture (for humans but not just for humans). I thought I was going to lose her to malnutrition caused by worms but she's doing great now
And there is studies on people about pumpkin seeds 1 glass a day fasting and later drinking castor oil. There is natural herbs bitter seeds from worms to everyone. 4grams raw garlic or 300 grams fresh pinneaple - deworms humans so must be same for animals coz is natural.
I just looked at the ingredients of Verm X, I add some of those to their feed, if you looked at the ingredients you could probably make your own verm x or just sprinkle it on their food and save a bunch of money. By buying the supplies they use to make it, you can make a much larger batch for like half of what you normally pay. Thank you for this video, I have a pumpkin I was supposed to carve and never did, if it's still good I'm going to give a little to the babies. They're fussy so I hope they like it. They don't have worms, it'd just be a good treat for them. Mine aren't molting, they're 5 months old and we're in northern Wisconsin, are they too young to molt?
I really enjoy a RUclips channel called Pavlovafowl, she is in Normandy France and I have dubbed her the chicken whisperer! She feeds organic people food and grains like you....she has a smallish property with trees where her chickens roost and such..it’s a really cool channel and I think you would really enjoy it!
So what I saw was, The contents of the pumpkin in a blender with buttermilk and a few additional cups of pumpkin seeds blended into a puree and fed to the chickens in the pumpkin Bowls if you would 😋. I didn't read through the comments so I didn't know if you'd already seen something like that. Love your channel :)
I use ground pumpkin seeds, d earth, cinnamon powder, turmeric, coconut oil and garlic for anti parasitic as well as probiotics to my dog. I dont give her any vet pharmaceutical products at all and she thrives :) I should give it all to the chooks too!
The whole issue of using pumpkin as a dewormer comes from a mis- translation of a word from Chinese Traditional Medicine (TCM) into contemporary English. I do remember the book title was Healing Ourselves but, I don't remember the author's name. It was explained that in the original TCM, the plant being mentioned was actually more like a very high enzyme melon. The plant was nothing like a traditional American orange pumpkin. However, the word pumpkin was used, and the mis-translation stuck. I never have found out what the botanically correct Latin name for a Chinese melon or gourd used for worming in TCM might be.
I havent read your paper yet (I will) but i do work in this field. I do regular faecal egg counts on my birds and will treat them if they have a parasite load ...a faecal egg count basically means i look for gastrointestinal worm eggs in their poo under a microscope. I would say that so far we have found no holistic therapy that actually kills worms but there may be some that keep parasite burdens low. The only thing that will actually kill worms in the gut is a veterinary anthelmintic and the only one approved for use in the UK is Flubendazole under the trade name of Flubenvet. This one requires no egg withdrawal period. I will say though that i never just routinely treat my hens, I check them first and only if they have a reasonable parasite egg count will i treat them.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia it will be from the same group under a different name. Chickens can have some impressive parasites! I’ve rescued some ex-commercial hens and it isn’t financially viable for the farmers to treat their hens (they are only kept for 18 months) so when I get them I do treat them and the worms (ascaridia galli) are huge and there’s a lot of them! They can be up to 4.5inches long so you don’t want your little chooks with them
I knew a man who gave a tad of tobacco to his stud horse and he never got worms lol . Garlic could be a deterrent 😏 Just bought chickens and don't know what the heck i'm doing ! Mine are molting now and won't eat hardly anything . My frinnd feeds hers oatmeal and even scrambles eggs for hers but mine won't touch either ! Don't know what to do sooooo i'm gonna try your recommendations 😁
When mine are molting I give them some extra protein. I have done both during molting. First nothing done. Second I have found for our chickens the extra protein helps. Keep researching and finding what works for yours.
When my kids had rabbits I did 2 things to keep predators out, before I put up the fences I dug a trench and filled it with pokey rocks below and up to the fence line so that digging animals would not like digging there. The other thing was to plant a small, weed garden..basically extra seeds, leaves and wild bird seeds..away from the cages so the animals would go there instead of the hutch and run. It worked...it's not very scientific..I think I might have read it somewhere..kind of like the row of corn for deer on big farms.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia hahaha! Me too, just forced myself into the habit but on a serious note, we have a bird flu outbreak in the U.K. and poo picking where the chickens are kept is actually essential at the moment 👍🏻
I use a variety of things for parasite prevention. About once a week I put garlic clove in their water. I also do apple cider vinegar in the water (not in the summer because it increases metabolism and makes it harder to get cool) to keep their guts healthy and this immune systems strong. I also use Molly's Herbals, which sounds like the herbs from the UK you mentioned. And, we do give them pumpkins all fall 😂👍
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Yes I was given paico tea , I think is what Mexican call epazote. The Cure was a sugar cube fallowed by Paico tea. Not sure why the sugar was necessary.
I enjoy watching. Our first chicks & guineas are now a year old. They have been a huge learning lesson. They love pumpkin. So does our two dogs. They ate Satsumas as I held them. Such a neat finding. Goose & Seuss the guineas eating from my hand. Wow! Goose not as much bc he is the protector of our winged babies. Like any of our pets, they are special to us. It is a surprise almost daily, not just the eggs. Yet, the experience of. Thankful God allows me to remember all their names. God's creation amazes me. Eggcitement I'd say; just Excellent, He is. ✝️ ♥️🎶🐣🌻🙏
I see this was posted 2 years ago, but I have access to most scientific journals and upon a quick search, I found many studies on this subject. I will look to see if a meta analysis has been published and get back to you! -Seb
II use 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar with the mother to 1 gallon of water when watering the chickens I had. When they get messy eggs they have parasites and this cleared up the poopy eggs. They come out clean as brand new and shiny
Lol, the great chicken debate. Just talk to older generations and they know what works most of the time. It's sad that we have lost so much information. My chooks love pumpkin and I will be asking for everyones after Halloween for the freezer. I've been pulling it out and adding into their fermented food.
i give all my birds pumpkin seeds thenever we have them. we grow tons of the fruit so they get them every few days. my ducks are. ot really a fan but will eat them in the end ad chickens love them! Im glad that they really work. you hear so many things that poeple say and you never really know
I will try this. Every time I Google something about chickens, there's always a debate. I have yet to find an issue that has a clear-cut answer and/or opinion
I would blend the fresh seeds and add them to their food because DE does not cover all types of worms. I'm speaking from cat and dog experience because I don't have the chickens yet. Correction... DE does work! I learned since this comment that DE used properly, at proper minimum dosage does work on a whole wide range of parasites. Pumpkin seeds, also used properly are one of the best dewormers. Just don't say pumpkin is a dewormer or you anger a lot of people who didn't know how to use it and it didn't work for them. There are articles in research in other languages. I also couldn't find anything in English. Not that I need it. My own experience is enough for me.
How about garlic in their water once in a while? I gave them a spoiled pumpkin and I don't see any bugs on them or worms in poo. Dunno why but maybe it's the pumpkin 😁
I have heard it works on humans. It's an old home remedy for human internal parasites. I think it's ok to use to help prevent but not a main go to. It's the seeds that do the job.
That’s awesome if it actually works!! They used to make a organic based dewormer called Wormal that worked the best but for some reason they quit making it!
It will definitely work ON chickens as an external parasite pesticide but as far as internal parasites, the jury is still out on that one. Which doesn't mean it doesn't work, it's just that there isn't a lot of science on it. I do know of one promising study that shows there to be benefit in feeding it to them regarding parasite load. And some people really swear by it: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119420300
@@WelcometoChickenlandia My great grandpa has a poultry farm. Many many moons ago! Lol Back before many of the federal regulations and before many of the chemical "solutions" for things, such as parasites and worms. He always used DE. And once every six months, he gave the cats and dogs a copper bead. Which if you research, copper is one of the main ingredients that kill worms. DE kills worms and parasites, by causing injury to the worm/parasite. DE have microscopic points on them. Covered with very sharp points. These points cause tears and cuts on the worm/bug/parasite. It also has a very drying affect. Between these two things, it is very good at causing the death of anything that will be cut by the sharp DE. Inside or out, it works the same way. Of course, just like anything else, that won't make millions, there will never be any research to determine its affectiveness. But, as my Grandma always said, the proof is in the pudding...or in the chicken, in this case! Of all the chickens that my family has harvested and eaten, we have never found any infested with worms. Nor have we lost any to parasites. We use it in dust baths, around the coop, in ALL of our animals water, INCLUDING OUR OWN! I highly recommend it! It has yet to fail THREE GENERATIONS of chicken keepers here! And best part, NO SIDE AFFECTS! No worries about over dosing. No worries about children accidently getting into it! And just in case if anyone is interested, copper itself does not kill worms. But the gases it puts off when patina, does kill worms. Well, I think it only kills them at a certain stage. Which is why you have to dose more than once. The old "penny" kills worms, invaded on this. It's not a PENNY that kills worms. It is COPPER that kills them. And here in USA, our pennies are no longer copper. And they contain metals that can cause a huge nutritional swing of certain minerals in dogs and cats, which can actually kill your animal. I forget the exact metal that causes this. Seems it was nickel maybe. I forget. So if you hear someone say, "give your dog a penny", NO! But a copper bead will do the job! And without all the extra chemicals of worm medicines! But just give them the DE and don't worry about it! The times my dogs have been tested for worms, they didn't have any! And we live in the country! And the only thing I use is DE. I give a new pup a copper bead. But only to clear the system so DE can do it's job. And so the pup wont get sick.
also, if you think people get wild about pumpkins and worms you should SEE how wild my town's facebook page gets over this one house that has goats. They've all got the megaphone
Excuse me, im new to chickens. How do they get worms to begin with? How safe is it to let them roam around since i have small kids who put everything in their mouths? Thanks
I raised chickens for over twenty years and never saw parasites. But I never did dress one out,so I cant be sure. I had given them pumpkin from time to time,only because I couldnt eat a whole pumpkin before it got too old. I never heard of the cure before. I dont celebrate with pumpkins, I just wait until Halloween is over and buy them cheap or get them free. I microwave a chunk til it;s soft and butter the hell out of it with salt and pepper. Great stuff. Very healthy food.
I feed my dogs pumpkin and they never have worms. Every time they are checked, no worms. Pumpkin works! I don’t feed them the seeds, but I firmly believe pumpkin is a great way to keep them worm free. And I feed pumpkins to my chickens too.
I’ll see if I can get the links from my friends but there actually were studies with pumpkins and chickens in South Korea, India and can’t remember the last, think it was either Sweden, Holland, Norway or Germany. If they can resend me the links, I’ll post them in these messages.
Papaya seeds, pumpkin seeds, food grade earth. All good things. Worm poison, avoid until you're at an emergency and detox the birds for a while before eating any eggs if your at that stage.
Roasted pumpkin for humans tastes good an alternative to roasted chicken lol Pumpkins are under estimated for sure. Thanks for the great video President of Chickenlandia.
I don’t recommend using them exclusively for parasites at this point. We just don’t have enough information as far as dosing and concentration. That being said, pumpkins are full of great nutrition. During pumpkin season, I usually keep one in the run that they can nibble on. :)
Lol You crack me up! Thanks for the information. I give my horses pumpkins cause people here say it works. The only thing is we don't know the dose to give. So I end up giving food grade diotamatious earth in their feed and that works great. I do wet it though because it is very volatile and not good for their lungs. I might do the same with my chickens. I give it for 7 days in the feed and if there are worms they get out right away. Horse wise!
How can I tell if my chickens have worms? Can my dogs or grandkids get them from my chickens? Two of my chickens act like their yawning. They open their beak and stretch their neck like their trying to force something out of their mouth. They just started doing this. I am new to keeping chickens, so I would appreciate any help.
Have you heard of a product called Chicken Nutri-balancer? Do you use it in your feed? I have been putting some in my hand mixed chicken feed and it seems to keep the chickens healthy with probiotics, etc.
Some people can have a bad reaction to it.did you ever see really cranky kids at the beach? Some people are allergic, or sensitive to sand.they feel horrible, don't know why and get cranky. Not every one can safely eat it.
Wormwood the herb is an active dewormer for humans, birds and most of my menagerie. Papiyan found in papaya and pumpkin seeds are very great at deworming parasites from us humans, but people will argue with anything in their wake so meh! Great job being natural!
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OH MY GOODNESS!! A viewer posted a study but it went into my "held for review" folder. I approved it, but then I think RUclips deleted it because it contained a link. My apologies to that viewer but LOOK WHAT THEY FOUND! A study on chickens! More info/studies are needed but this is yet another promising piece of information.
This is why I love this community.
How do I know if my chickens have worms?
You will have poopy eggs a worm free chick will have clean eggs😊I hope this helped have a wonderful day with your chicken friends😂!!
@@yourah-drunk-cow6993 Thanks for your information
I wanted to see the study but my system gave me an "unsafe link" message because of the site's certificate. Can you please list the name and author of the study here so that I can try to find it on a different site? Thanks in advance!
I also believe when you get papaya seeds and you dry them then grind to powder, it's among the best organic dewormer for all animal farms.
Thanks for info
It's the pumpkin seeds that they need. I cut the pumpkins in half and set them in the chicken yard. An old timer told me the pumpkin seeds suspend the worms. Follow up with shredded carrots to expel the worms. It has worked for my chickens. I have been doing this for years.
Pumpkins are out of season here in WV right now. I bought raw pumpkin seeds from Amazon..will that work?
Thanks for the tip!!
@@krystlenicole9268 my chickens looked at me like I'd lost the plot when I gave them a halved pumpkin. I chop them up a bowl of cabbage every day. Cabbage is a chicken super food and once a month I mix in food grade DE and for the past four years since doing this have never had another worm. For those looking for another option.
AN EXCELLENT VIDEO!!! All of my fowl (chix, ducks, and geese) get DE added to each day's feed and vinegar in their water. I have never had a parasite problem in 7 yrs. My birds only get pumpkin in the fall. (end of the season).
NICE!
Dimataceous Earth and vinegar... thanks David FR
David Fr is it safe for all critters birds and squirrels and opossums please ty all my critters eat the same food pretty much lol
Could you please tell me the ratio of DE to feed and the ratio of acv to water ? Thank you 😊
I do this and I’m grateful for these great utube channels.
So much chicken drama online! Thanks for clarifying, and I agree, prevention and nutrition are key!
The chicken drama is real!!
I use pumpkin seeds (dried) for chickens, ducks, my dog, my cats, and my herd of goats. We also use freshly picked wormwood and diamacious earth powder. Blend them all up, mix with feed.. my farm is dewormed.
what i've come to understand is the pumpkin seed shell will rip worms apart in the intestines.
Wormwood is so underestimated. It’s powerful!
@@WelcometoChickenlandia if the chicken eats wormwood by themselves does that mean they have parasites?
Where do you get wormwood
@@mariesmith1814at Etsy
Not pumpkin but the seeds!!! Organic raw apple cider vinegar works too and good for the digestive system
How much apple cider
I've used the pumpking twice a year(spring and fall when the temps flex is when they seem to come) for 15 years and never had them in my flocks... I freeze one in fall and give it in spring.. 😁
I agree that going the natural route is the best for everybody. My Grandfather farmed with draft horses. This was way before the days when the made commercial dewormer. They gave their horses a plug of chewing tobacco to deworm them!
I love your vlog Madam President I too rule a kingdom of six but will be adding a few more loyal subjects this Spring! ♥️👍🙏🇺🇸🤓
Haha Thank you!
Yep, tobacco is what we we always used in all our animals!! Along with DE, black walnut hulls, Pau d Arco, flax seed (for the birds only) etc etc. Oh and ACV in their water and food.
Tobacco is a herb and non addictive and kills parasites ,it’s the crap they add into the Tobacco that’s addictive and toxic!
Tyme for overall health! Also prevents cold issues, pepermint outside around the coop to ward off racoons, canine along with anti dig ( i use pavers and bricks ) around the outside skirt of the coop.
Delighted to open diplomatic relations with Chickenlandia and be able to converse directly with the President. Great work el-Presidenta. Keep it up. You are making the world better as I am watching from my small block in Perth Western Australia. Off now to find my old sprouting paraphernalia to make the girls some fresh goodies.
I love this comment so much!
I just found this channel and it’s my new favorite.
Yay!! I'm so glad you are here!
Dalia, you have done an incredible job with these videos. I am watched easily a dozen of these with my 10-year-old son as I am thinking about starting a chicken coop so we have fresh eggs and I have truly enjoyed watching these. Love the personality and how much passion you have for your chickens. It really shows in your videos. You definitely love what you do. Thanks for making these very helpful videos.
Wow, thank YOU so much for such an awesome comment. Means a lot to me. 🐔🐔🐔
So often I hear that there are no published articles on something, when in fact, the statement should be (like you stated) “couldn’t find.” There are studies for just about everything out there, but unfortunately most scientific studies are not easily accessible to the general public. Many studies cost a pretty penny to obtain and are nothing like the write ups published about the studies in popular press platforms. Some are free, and many are accessible through academic institutions. The good news is, there are plenty of studies. I just finished reading one published in 2023. This study used 85 chickens divided into 4 groups. One control and three experimental. It concluded that a 50/50 ratio of squash and papaya seeds eliminated Intestinal parasites in Chickens 100%. This group was compared with a commercial dewormer group, a 75/25 ratio and 25/75 ratio of seeds. Not even did the commercial dewormer get rid of the problem like the 50/50 ratio of seeds did! Pretty cool, hah?
Reference:
Antihelmintic Effect of Squash Seeds (Cucurbita moschata) and Papaya Seeds (Carica papaya) in Gastrointestinal Parasites in Native Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
Charles Philip A Catedral, Renz Oliver L Gallego, Niko S De Asis, Christian Jess P Orrillante
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1208 (1), 012057, 2023
Put Pumpkin seeds; dried and powdered over dogfood to get rid of worms.
Diatomaceous earth in the dusting area and apple cider vinegar in the water...most issues with illness, bugs and disease come from lack of nutrition. Stop keeping so many birds. Keep a smaller flock *affording* to feed them better nutrition. The less territory and dirtiness issues make the hens less stressed out and they will lay better than a bigger flock of mite infested birds.
Stress is such a huge factor!
I have a problem with the chicken math too. The birds are so cute and little but they grow up. I have 6 chickens and 7 ducks.
Thanks for your videos. I’m in northeast Ohio and hoping to start a flock next spring. I guess I don’t have enough going on with work, gardening and bees! So let’s add some chickens. I have learned a lot watching your videos
Haha you’re like me, always adding things to the schedule! You won’t regret it. ❤️🐔
As always, thanks for sharing but more importantly, digging into this deworming debate. I wholeheartedly agree that the most important thing to do is provide a healthy environment for your chickens. That alone will minimize a lot of the issues common to chicken herding. Love ya lady!
Love you too! 🐔❤️🐔
My birds love pumpkins, squash and sunflower seeds and plants. They are all good for them!
Yes!!
I had a bumper pumpkin and squash crop in my garden this past year. They get full-feed whole oats and I have been cutting up the surplus pumpkins, boiling them till they are soft, and putting in some whole rice or wheat, table scraps and they love it. Still getting eggs at -20 below zero from my Buff Orpington hens that I hatched out in my incubator, so I think the extra energy helps. I also eat pumpkin or squash every day myself, cutting them into pieces, and frying them in my frying pan with eggs and turmeric, cumin, garlic, onion, cinnamon, and other spices on it. I never get tired of it.
My veterinarian told me to offer canned pumpkin to my cats as a dewormer... "if they'll eat it." Which they won't. But the chicken do LOVE pumpkin, whether the pumpkin deworms them or not!
Yes. Mine said the same. He said it works for dogs too. The dogs devour it. I have to parse it out to the cats by mixing it a little at a time into wet canned cat food. 😂 I give it to all of them and the chickens once a month.
Hi, I’m trying a natural product from “the poultry store” Called all natural dewormer. It is made in the us and not too expensive. It smells wonderful, almost like a rub u would put on meet to barbecue. I add it to their feed a couple days a week for 2 weeks. So far so good, but the girls are also nibbling out pumpkins
Thanks for sharing!
Do you still like it?
The Verm-X parent company licensed a company in the US to make it here. However the FDA would not approve it unless it was formulated to be a daily supplement. So I keep them original liquid on hand as well as the original UK version for 3 days each month pelleted top dressing. I love the smell of the UK Verm-X pellets.
That makes sense. I had no idea! It's a really good product.
I really enjoy getting information on my hens from your vlog. I've had hens for 18 years and love getting a variety of information. I either get new info or confirm prior knowledge.
You GO PRESIDENT or Queen of Chickenlandia
Thanks so much!!
Great video thank you. I just gave my chickens a pumpkin a couple days ago and they would not touch it the only thing they wanted where the seats and they ate them all.
try cooked pumpkin first, preferably one you roasted yourself
lol "whatever, hater!" too funny. Love a chicken looking at pumpkins montage!
I don’t care. They are only a few dollars and made a great treat. My chickens loved it!! 👍😁
Your little emu fact made me laugh out loud 🤣 they way you said "haters!" Got me 🤣
Since as a kid we gave pumpkin twice a year to our chickens and I still do it to this day. Never once have my chickens had worms nor health issues. But that also comes from general hygiene practices of their home as well.
Yup. DE good in their food and coop even, sometimes their dust bowl and vinegar and ACV in their water. My chickens love pumpkin though so they get both.
a dewormer I used on a 2-week-old baby chick was NOW brand "green" black walnut wormwood complex tincture (for humans but not just for humans). I thought I was going to lose her to malnutrition caused by worms but she's doing great now
Where do you get Your wormwood
What is the ratio please ?
Thanks for your level headed and reasoned discussion. All the best. Mags 🌸🌺🌼🌻
You're so welcome!
I looooove the way you describe a lack of studies not meaning its not true!! Yay science 👍🏻😄
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And there is studies on people about pumpkin seeds 1 glass a day fasting and later drinking castor oil. There is natural herbs bitter seeds from worms to everyone. 4grams raw garlic or 300 grams fresh pinneaple - deworms humans so must be same for animals coz is natural.
I just looked at the ingredients of Verm X, I add some of those to their feed, if you looked at the ingredients you could probably make your own verm x or just sprinkle it on their food and save a bunch of money. By buying the supplies they use to make it, you can make a much larger batch for like half of what you normally pay. Thank you for this video, I have a pumpkin I was supposed to carve and never did, if it's still good I'm going to give a little to the babies. They're fussy so I hope they like it. They don't have worms, it'd just be a good treat for them. Mine aren't molting, they're 5 months old and we're in northern Wisconsin, are they too young to molt?
Juvenile chickens do molt though it’s usually much milder than an adult molt. I think it’s a great idea to give them your own herbs! :)
I really enjoy a RUclips channel called Pavlovafowl, she is in Normandy France and I have dubbed her the chicken whisperer! She feeds organic people food and grains like you....she has a smallish property with trees where her chickens roost and such..it’s a really cool channel and I think you would really enjoy it!
Do your own study! Get a Ph.D in chickenology.
I believe I always have an honorary chickenology degree. 🐔🤣❤️
Pumpkin fresh raw mseeds are the wormer the pumpkin helps to expel them
So what I saw was, The contents of the pumpkin in a blender with buttermilk and a few additional cups of pumpkin seeds blended into a puree and fed to the chickens in the pumpkin Bowls if you would 😋. I didn't read through the comments so I didn't know if you'd already seen something like that. Love your channel :)
Hahahahaha someone is 100% gonna quote you in a chicken group about that Emu splicing
I genuinely hope so 🤣❤️
I use ground pumpkin seeds, d earth, cinnamon powder, turmeric, coconut oil and garlic for anti parasitic as well as probiotics to my dog.
I dont give her any vet pharmaceutical products at all and she thrives :)
I should give it all to the chooks too!
Love the editing of this one!!
Yay, thank you!!
The whole issue of using pumpkin as a dewormer comes from a mis- translation of a word from Chinese Traditional Medicine (TCM) into contemporary English.
I do remember the book title was Healing Ourselves but, I don't remember the author's name.
It was explained that in the original TCM, the plant being mentioned was actually more like a very high enzyme melon. The plant was nothing like a traditional American orange pumpkin. However, the word pumpkin was used, and the mis-translation stuck.
I never have found out what the botanically correct Latin name for a Chinese melon or gourd used for worming in TCM might be.
My chickens love pumpkin. I always give them the jack o lanterns after Halloween.
Yes! They love it!
I havent read your paper yet (I will) but i do work in this field. I do regular faecal egg counts on my birds and will treat them if they have a parasite load ...a faecal egg count basically means i look for gastrointestinal worm eggs in their poo under a microscope. I would say that so far we have found no holistic therapy that actually kills worms but there may be some that keep parasite burdens low. The only thing that will actually kill worms in the gut is a veterinary anthelmintic and the only one approved for use in the UK is Flubendazole under the trade name of Flubenvet. This one requires no egg withdrawal period. I will say though that i never just routinely treat my hens, I check them first and only if they have a reasonable parasite egg count will i treat them.
I think that is very smart. We don't have Flubendaloze here in the US, but we do have Fenbendazole.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia it will be from the same group under a different name. Chickens can have some impressive parasites! I’ve rescued some ex-commercial hens and it isn’t financially viable for the farmers to treat their hens (they are only kept for 18 months) so when I get them I do treat them and the worms (ascaridia galli) are huge and there’s a lot of them! They can be up to 4.5inches long so you don’t want your little chooks with them
Oof! Thank you so much for saving them. ❤️
Lots of food for thought, Madam President.
Take care and stay safe,
Rob
You too! Thank you!
I knew a man who gave a tad of tobacco to his stud horse and he never got worms lol . Garlic could be a deterrent 😏 Just bought chickens and don't know what the heck i'm doing ! Mine are molting now and won't eat hardly anything . My frinnd feeds hers oatmeal and even scrambles eggs for hers but mine won't touch either ! Don't know what to do sooooo i'm gonna try your recommendations 😁
Awesome! I hope it goes well for you. ❤️🐔
When mine are molting I give them some extra protein. I have done both during molting. First nothing done. Second I have found for our chickens the extra protein helps. Keep researching and finding what works for yours.
That does work
I'm a firm believer in using natural products. I used VermX when I had chickens.
It’s great stuff!
Yogurt Is what I use for deworming my chicken
When my kids had rabbits I did 2 things to keep predators out, before I put up the fences I dug a trench and filled it with pokey rocks below and up to the fence line so that digging animals would not like digging there. The other thing was to plant a small, weed garden..basically extra seeds, leaves and wild bird seeds..away from the cages so the animals would go there instead of the hutch and run. It worked...it's not very scientific..I think I might have read it somewhere..kind of like the row of corn for deer on big farms.
Oh and i poo pick daily😉getting rid of poop in your garden can prevent spread within your flock and contamination from wild birds👍🏻
Good point! I need to poop pick daily but I’m lazy! 🤣❤️🐔
@@WelcometoChickenlandia hahaha! Me too, just forced myself into the habit but on a serious note, we have a bird flu outbreak in the U.K. and poo picking where the chickens are kept is actually essential at the moment 👍🏻
Oh man that’s hard. I’m so glad you’re staying on top of it. ❤️
The seriousness of that thumbnail 🤣🤣🤣
It took me like two hours to make that 🤣🤣🤣
im late to the party but it isnt the actual pumpkin, it is the seeds. good for humans too!
Gnoli is so cute 🤣
I use a variety of things for parasite prevention. About once a week I put garlic clove in their water. I also do apple cider vinegar in the water (not in the summer because it increases metabolism and makes it harder to get cool) to keep their guts healthy and this immune systems strong. I also use Molly's Herbals, which sounds like the herbs from the UK you mentioned. And, we do give them pumpkins all fall 😂👍
I believe it. In Latin America we give pumpkin seeds to children for parásitos. LOL
Haha yes! Also here in the US our naturopath suggested it. But we also got some proven herbs to help with the process!
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Yes I was given paico tea , I think is what Mexican call epazote. The Cure was a sugar cube fallowed by Paico tea. Not sure why the sugar was necessary.
Side note you have wonderful laugh it makes me smile. Hi from Australia. Ps your emu joke was funny
I enjoy watching. Our first chicks & guineas are now a year old. They have been a huge learning lesson. They love pumpkin. So does our two dogs. They ate Satsumas as I held them. Such a neat finding. Goose & Seuss the guineas eating from my hand. Wow! Goose not as much bc he is the protector of our winged babies. Like any of our pets, they are special to us. It is a surprise almost daily, not just the eggs. Yet, the experience of. Thankful God allows me to remember all their names.
God's creation amazes me. Eggcitement I'd say; just Excellent, He is. ✝️
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Just found your channel. Great info and you’re hilarious!
Thank you! ❤️🐔❤️
I see this was posted 2 years ago, but I have access to most scientific journals and upon a quick search, I found many studies on this subject. I will look to see if a meta analysis has been published and get back to you! -Seb
Did you find anything?
II use 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar with the mother to 1 gallon of water when watering the chickens I had. When they get messy eggs they have parasites and this cleared up the poopy eggs. They come out clean as brand new and shiny
Lol, the great chicken debate. Just talk to older generations and they know what works most of the time. It's sad that we have lost so much information. My chooks love pumpkin and I will be asking for everyones after Halloween for the freezer. I've been pulling it out and adding into their fermented food.
i give all my birds pumpkin seeds thenever we have them. we grow tons of the fruit so they get them every few days. my ducks are. ot really a fan but will eat them in the end ad chickens love them! Im glad that they really work. you hear so many things that poeple say and you never really know
I will try this. Every time I Google something about chickens, there's always a debate. I have yet to find an issue that has a clear-cut answer and/or opinion
So true. Unfortunately, there’s not a whole lot of clear cut information for small chicken keepers, as most studies are geared toward factory farms.
You are adorable! Come be my neighbor!!!!
LOL thank you!
I would blend the fresh seeds and add them to their food because DE does not cover all types of worms. I'm speaking from cat and dog experience because I don't have the chickens yet.
Correction... DE does work! I learned since this comment that DE used properly, at proper minimum dosage does work on a whole wide range of parasites.
Pumpkin seeds, also used properly are one of the best dewormers. Just don't say pumpkin is a dewormer or you anger a lot of people who didn't know how to use it and it didn't work for them. There are articles in research in other languages. I also couldn't find anything in English. Not that I need it. My own experience is enough for me.
Hi lady! Did u intergreat the productions of mealworms and sprouts to your daily feed routine?
Yes!
How about garlic in their water once in a while? I gave them a spoiled pumpkin and I don't see any bugs on them or worms in poo. Dunno why but maybe it's the pumpkin 😁
Garlic is very good for them!
I was giving my hens some of the squash and melons from my garden this autumn and am hoping that was good, too, since I haven’t seen wormy poops!
I have heard it works on humans. It's an old home remedy for human internal parasites. I think it's ok to use to help prevent but not a main go to. It's the seeds that do the job.
That’s awesome if it actually works!! They used to make a organic based dewormer called Wormal that worked the best but for some reason they quit making it!
Diatomacious earth!
What about diatomaceous earth? What's your recommendation about this. Will it help with worms and bugs on chickens.
It will definitely work ON chickens as an external parasite pesticide but as far as internal parasites, the jury is still out on that one. Which doesn't mean it doesn't work, it's just that there isn't a lot of science on it. I do know of one promising study that shows there to be benefit in feeding it to them regarding parasite load. And some people really swear by it: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119420300
@@WelcometoChickenlandia My great grandpa has a poultry farm. Many many moons ago! Lol Back before many of the federal regulations and before many of the chemical "solutions" for things, such as parasites and worms. He always used DE. And once every six months, he gave the cats and dogs a copper bead. Which if you research, copper is one of the main ingredients that kill worms.
DE kills worms and parasites, by causing injury to the worm/parasite. DE have microscopic points on them. Covered with very sharp points. These points cause tears and cuts on the worm/bug/parasite. It also has a very drying affect. Between these two things, it is very good at causing the death of anything that will be cut by the sharp DE. Inside or out, it works the same way. Of course, just like anything else, that won't make millions, there will never be any research to determine its affectiveness. But, as my Grandma always said, the proof is in the pudding...or in the chicken, in this case! Of all the chickens that my family has harvested and eaten, we have never found any infested with worms. Nor have we lost any to parasites. We use it in dust baths, around the coop, in ALL of our animals water, INCLUDING OUR OWN! I highly recommend it! It has yet to fail THREE GENERATIONS of chicken keepers here! And best part, NO SIDE AFFECTS! No worries about over dosing. No worries about children accidently getting into it!
And just in case if anyone is interested, copper itself does not kill worms. But the gases it puts off when patina, does kill worms. Well, I think it only kills them at a certain stage. Which is why you have to dose more than once. The old "penny" kills worms, invaded on this. It's not a PENNY that kills worms. It is COPPER that kills them. And here in USA, our pennies are no longer copper. And they contain metals that can cause a huge nutritional swing of certain minerals in dogs and cats, which can actually kill your animal. I forget the exact metal that causes this. Seems it was nickel maybe. I forget. So if you hear someone say, "give your dog a penny", NO! But a copper bead will do the job! And without all the extra chemicals of worm medicines! But just give them the DE and don't worry about it! The times my dogs have been tested for worms, they didn't have any! And we live in the country! And the only thing I use is DE. I give a new pup a copper bead. But only to clear the system so DE can do it's job. And so the pup wont get sick.
also, if you think people get wild about pumpkins and worms you should SEE how wild my town's facebook page gets over this one house that has goats. They've all got the megaphone
LOL!!! That darn megaphone!
Excuse me, im new to chickens. How do they get worms to begin with? How safe is it to let them roam around since i have small kids who put everything in their mouths? Thanks
I raised chickens for over twenty years and never saw parasites. But I never did dress one out,so I cant be sure. I had given them pumpkin from time to time,only because I couldnt eat a whole pumpkin before it got too old. I never heard of the cure before. I dont celebrate with pumpkins, I just wait until Halloween is over and buy them cheap or get them free. I microwave a chunk til it;s soft and butter the hell out of it with salt and pepper. Great stuff. Very healthy food.
I feed my dogs pumpkin and they never have worms. Every time they are checked, no worms. Pumpkin works! I don’t feed them the seeds, but I firmly believe pumpkin is a great way to keep them worm free. And I feed pumpkins to my chickens too.
I’ll see if I can get the links from my friends but there actually were studies with pumpkins and chickens in South Korea, India and can’t remember the last, think it was either Sweden, Holland, Norway or Germany. If they can resend me the links, I’ll post them in these messages.
Papaya seeds, pumpkin seeds, food grade earth. All good things. Worm poison, avoid until you're at an emergency and detox the birds for a while before eating any eggs if your at that stage.
3:20 (insert greta thunberg meme here) How dare you!
That poor silkie, Either way boy/girl. thx for laugh
Roasted pumpkin for humans tastes good an alternative to roasted chicken lol Pumpkins are under estimated for sure. Thanks for the great video President of Chickenlandia.
You're so welcome!
Very interesting. Checked out the link also. Moderately effective sounds good. We'll have to give the girls a pumpkin.
They do love eating them!
So if you were going to use pumpkins exclusively, for parastates, , how often and how much would you give them?
I don’t recommend using them exclusively for parasites at this point. We just don’t have enough information as far as dosing and concentration. That being said, pumpkins are full of great nutrition. During pumpkin season, I usually keep one in the run that they can nibble on. :)
You're the president of fun chicken education!
Lol You crack me up! Thanks for the information. I give my horses pumpkins cause people here say it works. The only thing is we don't know the dose to give. So I end up giving food grade diotamatious earth in their feed and that works great. I do wet it though because it is very volatile and not good for their lungs. I might do the same with my chickens. I give it for 7 days in the feed and if there are worms they get out right away. Horse wise!
The DE actually destroys the "exoskeletons" of the bugs so that they die.
Like your different style of glasses and your laughs and giggles also your knowledge 👏🏻
Thank you so much!
How can I tell if my chickens have worms? Can my dogs or grandkids get them from my chickens? Two of my chickens act like their yawning. They open their beak and stretch their neck like their trying to force something out of their mouth. They just started doing this. I am new to keeping chickens, so I would appreciate any help.
Do you use Marigold in your nest boxes?
Sometimes!
Pro pumpkin peeps vs anti pumpkin peeps. 😂😂🎉🎉🎉 Great video, thanks!
I’m new to chickens , can you please tell me when do they start to lay. Should I give them cracked oysters shells
Dear madam,
Thanks from Rwanda. Thank you for this information that pampkins are dewarmers,. I have chickens and I am going to try this
I feed my chickens a small scoop of garlic seeds about once a month and they ate the pumpkins from Halloween. I have not seen any worms.
I have a thought. I sometimes give my dogs shaved carrots for worm prevention. Can chickens eat this too?
I havent found a video about baby chick behavior, I have a chick that is constantly cheeping and I'd love your point of view
Is she possibly too cold? Or is she lonely?
I love this!
I love that name chicken landia
Thank you!
Have you heard of a product called Chicken Nutri-balancer? Do you use it in your feed? I have been putting some in my hand mixed chicken feed and it seems to keep the chickens healthy with probiotics, etc.
I will check that out!
Diatomaceous Earth
I buy the kind that is white powder. Won't hurt human to eat it.
@@JacquelineJaroffaith yes food grade I eat it 😊 you can use it to treat fleas and other bugs too
@@JacquelineJaroffaith unless you are allergic to dust mites,,I had a allergic reaction 🤧
@@PikaChu-eb9qi I am allergy to all kinds of mites. I take medicine cream to help me keep them off of me.
Some people can have a bad reaction to it.did you ever see really cranky kids at the beach?
Some people are allergic, or sensitive to sand.they feel horrible, don't know why and get cranky. Not every one can safely eat it.
I know in Brazil people eat the seeds of a papaya fruit as protection against worms. Maybe it would work on chickens too.
Interesting! I would love to see some studies on that as well!
Multiple videos on papaya seeds to rid worms on youtube. I think it’s human use. Interesting 🧐
Wormwood the herb is an active dewormer for humans, birds and most of my menagerie. Papiyan found in papaya and pumpkin seeds are very great at deworming parasites from us humans, but people will argue with anything in their wake so meh!
Great job being natural!
White willow also deworms horses and animals that will naugh on it!