Coop Cleaning and Bedding Record
Keep the cleaning round on a dated record, with the red mite check that is easy to skip and expensive to skip twice.
Livestock and smallholding · LK-19
A free printable chicken worming and treatment record — product, batch, birds treated, and both egg and meat withdrawal dates from the label.
One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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Record treatments with the two withdrawal dates that matter, so eggs and meat are not used before they are clear.
Backyard keepers, smallholders and anyone selling or eating their own eggs.
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: What was treated, with what, and the date the eggs or meat are clear — taken from the label.
Egg and meat withdrawals are different — read both. No product, dose or withdrawal period is printed here. Withdrawal for eggs and for meat are often different, both are on the label, and getting them from anywhere else is how contaminated food enters the chain. In many countries these records are a legal requirement with a set retention period.
Write-on lines: Holding · Holding number · Year · Sheet
Table, 12 rows: Date · Birds treated · Number · Reason · Product as labelled · Batch · Amount · Egg withdrawal ends · Meat withdrawal ends
Write-on lines: Supplied by · Records kept until
Because it depends on the parasite, the country and often a vet's prescription, and many products sold for poultry are not licensed for laying birds. Getting this wrong puts contaminated eggs on a table. Your vet and the label are the sources.
In many countries, yes, for food-producing animals — and backyard hens usually count as food-producing even when the eggs never leave the garden. Check locally.
Keep the cleaning round on a dated record, with the red mite check that is easy to skip and expensive to skip twice.
Keep a medicines book that answers the two questions that actually get asked: what went into which animals, and when they are clear.
Keep a register of birds on the holding, with the movements that anyone asking about disease or provenance will want to see.
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