Garlic and Apple cider vinegar

[L Jones]

Can any one tell me if you put the Garlic in the food every day or not, if not haw many time a week do you put it in and do you use the apple cider vinegar in the water every day or once a week or just once every two weeks. I have been told that they help with worms in the hens and chicks.
Thanks

 

[desertgirl]

Don't use garlic, but I use ACV all of the time. I recently had a 1 week old chick with a pretty badly impacted crop, and I am convinced it kept her from getting horrifically sick. I use 4 tbsp /gallon, change the water every day twie a day if it is particularly gunky).

 

[camalianus]

You can use garlic with no problem. Garlic is a natural antiparasitic and antiseptic. You can toss it on the floor and let them eat it, or chop it off and mix it with the food. The last issue of Backyard Poultry recomends it as a preventive antiparasitic.

 

[Chickenmaven]

We buy large containers of peeled, whole garlic cloves. Sometimes, if the garlic isn't being used quickly enough, I will bake some for me & my chickens. (Just throw some on a piece of foil & place in the toaster oven). They love it!!!

I have heard that the garlic flavor taints the eggs, but that has not been my experience.

 

[Hillbilly Rooster]

That is correct with the garlic I read the same article you can put it in a onion sack and hang it in your water container so that the garlic helps the chickens to worming or get garlic extract. But not everyday they say.

That was the easy way I was not going to catch all my chickens to give them there de wormers. This was the first time hearing about the dewormer bit.