Herbal Worm Formula Kit

Here is the Cycle Simplified:

Week 1#:  Formula #1 three days in a row

Week 2#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Week 3#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Week 4#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Week 5#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Week 6#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Week 7#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Week 8#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Repeat cycle.

Week 1#:  Formula #1 three days in a row

Week 2#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Week 3#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Week 4#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Week 5#:  Formula #1 three days in a row

Week 6#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Week 7#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Week 8#:  Formula #2 Once a week

Repeat cycle.

Feeding Tips:

Please keep in mind that everybody is a different, so different things work for different animals.  The main thing is getting animal in ingest the herbs, and it really doesn't matter how you end up doing it.

Getting the herbs into the animal can be easy, or it can be difficult at first.  I have developed my herb formulas to taste as good as I can, but still, sometimes animals and be weary of new things.  Be patient, eventually your animal will probably love the herbs and lick their bowls clean.

First you can just try sprinkling a small amount it on their grain/food. Try just a small amount at a time to let them get used to it and work up to a full dose.

• If you feel it would help to have the herbs actually stick to their grain/feed, try this trick that a customer sent me:
  Pour 1.5 TBSP of oil onto 1.5 cups of dry feed. Oil makes the Formula stick to the feed. 
  Mix. Add 1 TBSP of Formula. Mix.

If you don't feed individually, making the herbs a treat is a good idea.

Dosage  Balls usually work well:

Herbal Dosage Balls:
Mix together:

1/2 cup (8 Tablespoons) Worm Formula
1/4 cup (4 Tablespoons) powdered Slippery Elm Bark (Slippery elm acts as a binding agent to hold the herb mixture together (it also tastes good). When I developed this recipe Slippery Elm was not as expensive as it is now. While I still think it is the best "binder" you can try other types of flour such as flax, almond or hemp, or even omit the flour all together.  Whatever works for you).  *See after this recipe for more substitutes for Slippery Elm.
Add:
1/4 cup Honey or Molasses

With your fingers (or in a food processor), mix and kneed into a dough. Break into 16 even pieces, shape into balls and then roll the balls in a little bit of Slippery Elm powder just to coat. Each ball equals a 1/2 Tablespoon dose. Offer an herbal dosage ball to the animal first, and he may eat it right out of your hand. If he won't, shove it in his mouth. Often, the animal realizes the balls taste good and want more. If he spits it out, just shove further back in the mouth next time. (For goat kids, or other smaller animals, I break the balls into smaller pieces to administer.)

 

Herbal Dosage Balls For Dogs (works for other animals as well)
Mix together:

1/4 cup (4 Tablespoons) Worm Formula
2 Tablespoons whole wheat flour (or any type of flour you wish to use)
Add:
1/4 - 1/3 cup Peanut Butter

With your fingers, mix and kneed into a dough. Break into 12 even pieces, shape into balls and then roll the balls in a little bit of whole wheat flour just to coat. Each ball equals a 1 tsp. dose. Offer an herbal dosage ball to the dog first, and he may eat it right out of your hand. If he won't, shove it in his mouth. Often, the dog realizes the balls taste good and want more. If he spits it out, just shove further back in the mouth next time.

Ball Making Suggestions from Customers:

• One customer told me they use home-pressed apple juice instead of water to help mix up the the dosage balls.
• "I have made them and just eliminated the slippery elm due to cost and they work just fine. I add a little extra molasses. They are stickier but work fine."
• "I only roll them in slippery elm so they don’t stick together and because our goats love it. But almond flour works to help them not stick as well."
• "I measure the powdered herbs for how many doses I want. Then add half that amount (by volume) of molasses, then half again of peanut butter. Knead in to a dough and then cut into the number of pre-measured doses. Goats and dogs love them."
• "I was out of slippery elm once and substituted Hemp flour - just needed less, worked fine and goats enjoyed it too!"
• "I like to replace slippery elm with marshmallow root, it’s not an endangered wild tree (thank you elm disease) and is easily grown in the garden with many of the same properties of slippery elm and a but cheaper because of it.
• "Coconut flour in place of the slippery elm works great."
• "I just mixed the powder with water and made sandwiches. My goats love bread! They didn't want it with molasses"

Other hints for getting animals to eat the herbs:

• Mix the herbs with molasses (or honey) and spread it on crackers (Wheat Thins and Triscuits) and the place another crack on top making a herb sandwich and her goats would gobble them up thinking they were the best treat.

• "We got our doelings to eat the dose balls, by flattening smaller dose balls between 2 elm leaves, a "sandwich"."

• "My goats love raisins, so I put some of them in the container with the dosage balls, after letting them mingle together I pulled out their doses for the day and some extra raisins then I smashed the raisins into the wormer balls and SUCCESS!"

• Make a drench. 1 part herbs 1 part molasses 1-2 parts water.

• "I decided to mix it with 3 tsp Gatorade. It's magical! They think the syringes contain a treat. No more struggles and one person can do it alone."

• Mix with applesauce. This person has many windfall apple, so used these to make applesauce for her goats.

And finally, if you have chickens, I usually just dump any drench I have left over from drenching my kids onto their scratch grain.  You can also moisten their scratch grain in some manner to the herbs will stick to it and sprinkle it on their grain.  A customer told me her chickens often will eat a gruel of brown rice flour and wormer mixed with scratch grain. 

The dose for Miniature breeds is 2/3 the regular breed dose.

For example:   Tbls = 3 tsp, so the dose for miniature breeds adult goats is 2 tsp.

I use the full adult goat dose on our goat kids over two months old (when they reach about 30-40 pounds; an adult reaches 125 - 200 pounds).  Unlike drugs, it is really hard to give too much of these herbal formulas. I have given up to 5X the suggested dose to my goats with no ill effects. I suggest starting with a 2/3 dose to full dose for adult miniatures and go from there.  Trust your instincts as to what you feel is best for your own animals. 

I have not studied it for heartworm.  I have had positive feedback in regards to it from customers, but I cannot say for sure. 

Since herbal wormers work, in part, by expelling parasites from the digestive system, I do not rely on my herbals to take care of lungworms already established in the lung. I am not totally sure the herbals will reach the parasites in the lungs.  It may help, but I have not had the opportunity to study this in my own herd, so I cannot say for sure. I do know that it seems to keep lungworms from reestablishing in the lungs (it has for my herd). If you have a goat with established lungworms in their lungs (they cough after running) I usually recommend treating the infected goat with Ivomec (a chemical wormer) one time and starting on my Worm Formula. (I have not been able to study if my Worm Formula takes care of established lungworm because my goats (all on my herbals) never get lungworm anymore )

Yes, I do know of some people using the formula on rabbits with good results.  I believe the starting dose to try is the cat dose.  Some people make up dosage balls using rolled oats, which rabbits seem to really like.

Yes, I do know of some people using the formula on ferrets.  I do not know the dose they use.  

I have eaten my fair share of these Formulas.  I would not give any of my herbal formulas or tinctures to an animal if I was not willing to try it myself. Also, I need to taste my formulas so that I can make the Formulas taste better so they will be easier to administer to animals.  Formula 1# is extremely bitter and I can not say it tastes good by any means, but my goats seem to love it.

I use My Worm Formula as an herbal dietary supplement on the same schedule as our goat herd. The human dose I use is 1 Tbs.

I do know of other humans using my Worm Formula as an herbal dietary supplement.  The common starting serving suggestion is 1 Tbs.. Be aware that my formulas are not considered food, and are not drugs; they are herbal dietary supplements and so are not tested or regulated by the FDA.

It is fine for all animals, including horses.

The part of the Black Walnut that contains the substance that can be toxic to horses is the roots and wood.  That is why you hear about not using it for bedding for horses.  The leaves contain a little of this, but it disperses very quickly when the herb is dried and ground.  I use the hulls, which do not contain the toxic substance.  I have never gotten any negative feedback with people using my formulas for horses.

Not all herbal wormers, dewormers, worm compounds or worm formulas are the same.

My Worm Formula System is totally different than any others that were on the market when I created it.  The ingredients in my Formulas differ greatly from other herbal wormers that you may find.  I created my Formulas for our herd because I was dissatisfied with other herbal wormers I tried.  I do not suggest, or recommend, substituting any other herbal wormer for use with my Formula system.  I know of one person who was trying to use up their other herbal wormer before starting mine and her herd all developed bottlejaw (severe parasite infestation).  The choice is up to you.

No, I have not; my herd has never been healthier.