[viettaclark]

Hello everybody. Wondered if anyone can tell me what is the difference between Verm-X and Flubenvet? They are both natural wormers with no egg withdrawal period but I'm ordering a few bits online and my site doesn't do Flubenvet. Thanks guys and gals!

[Aunt Sally]

Hi there

They are not both natural wormers !

Verm-x is a herbal wormer witch contains about 10 different herbal extracts.  It would be like you eating a lot of rhubarb.  It makes your guts move more quickly and expell the contents quicker.  It doesn't kill the worms just gives the chooks a tummy ache and a touch of the quits.  As it only acts in the gut it has not effect on gapeworm and I'm have a feeling it may not work on tape worm either.  It does not irradicate worms just makes their environment a bit slippery and helps to reduce the worm burden.

Flubenvet is a synthetic compount called flubendazole which kills all the worms and their eggs including tape worm and gape worm.  The dead worms are then shed in the faeces without any gastric problems.

Hope that gives you the info you wanted

[Chookster]

Aunt Sally, do you think it would be best recommended to use flubenvet then? I've got verm x at the mo but if that's the case maybe the money would have been better spent on something that actually does the job for real?

"During the war"... they used to use garlic apparently - is that good enough 'these days'?

[Aunt Sally]

A lot of us use garlic as a general tonic anyway but I'm not sure it does any good as a wormer.

I only ever recomend flubenvet !

[viettaclark]

Thanks Auntie! Am I right that there is no egg withdrawal with Flubenvet?

[Aunt Sally]

Quite correct

[viettaclark]

Mercie buttercups...Flubenvet it is then!