Worms are a great problem in chicken and can affect the growth performance and feed conversion ratio of chicken.
Chicken become infected with worms by feeding or drinking contaminated feed or water. The signs of chicken infected with worms include loss of weight, diarrhoea, poor feather quality, low egg production and emaciating look.
Natural remedies
The natural remedies include garlic. Garlic has properties that are beneficial to chicken and among others include anti parasitic properties. To use garlic as an anti parasitic, mix powdered garlic with the feeds or dissolve it in birds‘ drinking water. You can also use bulb garlic. The recommended dosage is one table spoon of crushed garlic per one litre of drinking water. You can also mix the crushed garlic in feeds.
Apple cider vinegar: Add 1 table spoon of vinegar to every 4 litres of drinking water.
Pepper: Crush the pepper and mix it with the feeds. It is recommended that you add 1% of the pepper to the feeds.
Diatomaceous earth: This is a mineral of plant origin used to deworm animals. Mix 100g of diatomaceous earth per 1kg of feed and serve the feed to the birds.
Preventing worm attack
To protect the birds from intestinal worm attack, keep the floor where the birds live clean and dry, avoid over population, do not allow birds to get into contact with wild animals, provide birds with clean fresh water and also quarantine new birds before they get mixed with the entire flock.
