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Please forgive me for not following up on this. I did treat with fenbendazole, but then unfortunately the two high tapeworm shedders (and one other) were killed by a neighborhood dog. My three remaining chickens have negative fecals as of a couple of weeks ago when BYC's Aart was with me, she...

Take pics and share!!! I will very much look forward to seeing what you find.

Acceptable residues are established with specific doses of a product, so if you give more, all bets are off, basically. Regulatory agencies across the world are making efforts to harmonize requirements for drug approvals, but there are still some big differences in the rules between different...

Exactly Dawg. Classes of dewormers that are active against tapeworms and other cestodes are very few and far between. Pyrazinoisoquinolines (like praziquantel) and benzamidazoles (like fenbendazole) are pretty much it. Admittedly fenbendazole isn't that great for tapeworms and has to be given...

After doing some reading, based on the egg shape, the shape of the hooklets inside the eggs and the proglottid form (stacked), I'm going to say this is a Hymenolepis infection, not Railletina. These are something that people CAN get if you eat infected insects, but it's not common. They are...

*eye twitch* Good to know. I am a little jumpy about stuff like that since we give 90% of our eggs away.

I have a few scopes, but actually the one I used for these photos is a cheapie, and I've loved it. I highly recommend this scope for anyone with curiosity. It doesn't have super duper tooled, fancy optics, but I'll be darned if this one hasn't been just as good for me as my high quality Nikon...

No, you won't get these from chickens.

I will post an update when I do the recheck! I am giving them a pretty high dose so fingers crossed. I can give them praziquantel, too, but that is not approved in food animals at all, so it makes me feel a bit squidgy giving it to my chickens. Tapeworms are all different, and I was surprised...

lol Vaginas are important! (They're used for identification purposes, where they are, how many there are, etc). When you go to parasitology school you quickly learn to say the word "vulva" without cringing.

I did a fecal on my chickens and thought I'd share the process, hopefully this be informative. I am planning to treat my hens with 20 mg/kg fenbendazole for tapeworms and nematodes. Here's what I found on the fecal exam. Ascaridia (roundworms): There were many, many of these tapeworm eggs. If...