Egg shortage after worm treatment

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Guyoscar Egg Co

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Egg shortage after worm treatment
« on: May 17, 2015, 21:04 »
We have recently treated our backyard flock of Light Sussex and Cream Legbars with Flubenvet pre-medicated pellets.
They all laid every day when on the Flubenvet. However, since switching back to the normal layers pellets 3 out of the 4 Cream Legbars have stopped laying for 2 weeks.
Does anybody know why this would be? Any advice would be appreciated !!

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8doubles

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Re: Egg shortage after worm treatment
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2015, 21:22 »
First thought is do they free range and if so have they found a cosy spot to hide the eggs from you ?

Second thought is are they due to moult ?

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Geo

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Re: Egg shortage after worm treatment
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2015, 11:52 »
I found that after worming with Flubenvet some of them  started getting soft eggs.  Coincidence maybe ,

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Guyoscar Egg Co

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Re: Egg shortage after worm treatment
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2015, 19:45 »
Thanks for the replies,

They don't free range and we have had a good hunt around the run, but we haven't found any secret hoards !

I wondered about moulting, they are exactly 1 year old this month, so would they be moulting? Sorry to be dumb ! :mellow:

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Sassy

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Re: Egg shortage after worm treatment
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2015, 08:09 »
Could just be due to temperature drop, a fright or lots of reasons we humans are not privy to.  :)
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted!!

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Helenaj

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Re: Egg shortage after worm treatment
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2015, 17:53 »
It could be they are a bit miffed at you for changing their feed - when I worm mine they treat me with complete contempt for a week after! :D



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