Thursday morning we received 10 baby day-old chicks from a local breeder. One was a little wobbly, but he seemed to perk up ok. They all seemed to be doing well until this morning (Sat)when I woke up to find one of them dead. Shortly after that, we found a reddish brown worm in the waterer and a few other segments. Later I found a few more worms (2 inches) on the bedding in their brooder. The breeder said he had never had this happen before and honestly I had never heard of such young chicks getting worms. Their brooder and everything in it was new and sterile and they went straight from his box to my brooder with no other contact with any surfaces. Ick!-what should I do-I don't want to lose any more. Thanks for any advice!
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Received baby chicks and they have worms! What do I do???!!
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I was hoping someone else might know what to do.
