Verm-X Natural Wormer for Poultry.

Verm-X is a natural wormer that kills all known internal parasites or worms in poultry and is also gentle on the digestive system. It is ideal if, like me you would prefer to follow a more organic approach  with your birds since it is approved for use with Organic farming methods being a 100% herbal product.

There is no egg withdrawal period and many of the herbs (like garlic, peppermint, fennel and thyme for example) used in Verm-X can actually benefit the health of your birds as well as worming them. Holistic vet Nick Thompson of Verm-X says "Any single herb is thought to contain 4 to 6000 active components. In most plants, we only know the top dozen medicinal molecules. Herbs are able to affect the body and parasites in ways the pharmaceutical companies can only dream of."

Traditionally, I have weighed and mixed up a certain quantity of layers pellets and Flubenvet wormer, using olive oil to help the powder to stick to the pellets. Getting the quantity right and ensuring that the powder stuck to the pellets was always a bit of a challenge. There was often a little too much or too little food mixed up at the end of the treatment period and I was never really comfortable with using a chemical wormer but did want to ensure my birds were wormed thoroughly.
With Verm-X poultry wormer, I found worming my birds very straight forward. Verm-X comes in a liquid or pelleted formulation, I used the Verm-X pellets that can be fed mixed in with normal layers pellets. The pellets came in a stay fresh tub and you simply measure out 2.5g per bird, per day using the enclosed scoop for 3 days. The recommendation is to do this every month or as required. As with worming products, you may be killing the worms but the eggs will still hatch so it is important to kill these new worms before they are at an age where they can reproduce and lay more eggs.

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So far, I have treated 3 pens of chickens with Verm-X and 3 with the last of my Flubenvet. I must say that the birds treated with Verm-X are looking very fit and healthy and are laying incredibly well. The feather condition of the birds treated with Verm-X does seem to be better and I am monitoring both to see how well they do over the rest of the year. I plan to introduce Verm-X to my waterfowl next as I have been so pleased with the results. Flubenvet isn't actually licensed for use with waterfowl so I am looking forward to trying them with Verm-X shortly.

If you would like more information, there is some information about Verm X on the "keeping chickens: A beginners guide" website that I would recommend reading.

Verm-X Update Dec. 2009.

As a precaution, I decided to use Flubenvet every 6 months or so. I have found the Verm-X to be very good but it does come at quite a price and I am still not totally convinced that the Verm-X is a 'wormer' as such. I need to perform some more worm count tests which again, cost money so I haven't done this. What I do believe so far is that it is helping to reduce internal parasites but if I had a worm problem, I would still use Flubenvet to ensure the worms were killed quickly.

Verm-X Update Nov. 2010.

I have decided that the only way to conclusively prove the efficacy of Verm-X is to perform our own trial next spring. There are however some good reports coming in from the users of Verm-X and I have learned of a Vet using this product for his game bird customers. I will update this page with a link to our trials when they are complete.