[Goldfinger]

It's that time again to worm my chooks.

I know you're no to give treats, but are you able to let them range about in the back garden instead of having the cooped up (no pun) for the seven days?

Over them days, you can see them getting angry/frustrated on not being let out, so was wondering if I could still let them out.

[Beano]

I would be interested in seeing any replies to that  question myself.

[nerdle]

Me too.
I concluded that I'd do it in a snowy week when she can't eat much other stuff anyway.  My thread 'flubenvetting' showed divided opinion.

[Skywise]

i've just finished flubenvetting my girls and kept them locked within the small run so they couldn't eat anything but the treated pellets, simply because that was the instruction on the flubenvet packaging.

They were pretty unhappy for the first few days and made that the neighbours and I were all aware of their displeasure, but they settled down after about day 3 and were OK for the rest of the week.

Although they didn't seem to mind too much, I felt like a complete heel for keeping them locked in, and there certainly seems to be a little more joie de vivre when I eventually let them out - they were hurtling around the garden like lunatics.

Awwww - bless 

[Anndee]

As mine free range in the garden, when I give Flubenvet I mix it with a small amount of cooked boiled rice, which they love, give it for their breakfast and they eat it all up in one go I then let them out to free range and give their normal layers pellets for the rest of the day. I then take the pellets up at bedtime so they can't eat them next day prior to worming.
 Doesn't seem to have have been a problem for mine.

[Goldfinger]

We ad-lib feed our chooks because we're up and out early to work, so I think that way would be a bit difficult for us.

Good idea though...