Chicken Deworming Protocols

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casportpony said:
I beg to differ. This is a necropsy picture of a 3 month old free ranged chick that was looking a little off.
-Kathy
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Most healthy birds should be able to handle a reasonable worm load, and it's considered natural. The belief is when a chicken becomes unwell the worm population grows out of control. Upon death when examined there are lots of worms so it's assumed to be the cause of death when it never was. I have also seen mites and lice get out of control on unwell birds. I certainly don't know everything, but always like to look at things from a natural point of view. Worms gain nothing from killing their host, they die too.
 
oldhenlikesdogs said:
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-Kathy
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Most healthy birds should be able to handle a reasonable worm load, and it's considered natural. The belief is when a chicken becomes unwell the worm population grows out of control. Upon death when examined there are lots of worms so it's assumed to be the cause of death when it never was. I have also seen mites and lice get out of control on unwell birds. I certainly don't know everything, but always like to look at things from a natural point of view. Worms gain nothing from killing their host, they die too.
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It almost sounds like you're saying that worms don't kill chickens, or maybe I'm missing something?, cause I have seen the irreversible damage in picture and in my own necropsies, and I can assure you that cause of death was from an infestation of worms.

-Kathy
 
casportpony said:
It almost sounds like you're saying that worms don't kill chickens, or maybe I'm missing something?, cause I have seen the irreversible damage in picture and in my own necropsies, and I can assure you that cause of death was from an infestation of worms.

-Kathy
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Just sharing my thought and experiences with my chickens and other livestock as well. Worms can kill, I've lost goats to barberpole worms. Worming doesn't seem to help anymore as the worms are resistant to most wormers now. It will happen eventually in chickens too as worming them is becoming more common. It's better to breed for resistance. But that's just my opinion. I greatly respect your knowledge and am not questioning it.
 
casportpony said:
I'm just a little more sensitive because I raise peafowl and turkeys, both of which are very susceptible to blackhead.


Do I worm all my chickens, ducks, pigeons, etc? Heck no, lol, but I do worm all the peafowl and turkeys at least once a year.

-Kathy
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I didn't know that peafowl could get blackhead, thankfully we don't seem to have it here, see I learned something new from you again.
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I do think the key is in identifying what worms your flock has, then treating with a the correct wormer. best way to do this is with routine fecals, which you can have a vet do, or you could do them yourself if you're willing to invest in a scope, centrifuge, and misc supplies.

This peafowl friend of mine does his own:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1047614/doing-fecal-floats-at-home

-Kathy
 

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