Can worms kill off chickens one by one slowly?

[welasharon]

Dawg53 is the chicken worming expert here so I will let him tell you what to do and with what. I will tell you however I would not rely on DE too heavily. It didn't do crap for me. Maybe it is better to consider it more of a preventative aide. I like seven dust for mites and lice. It seems less intrusive although I have used ivomec pour on twice now to avoid having to dust them. Lazy!

Not sure about cutting up the chicken though! Had to help do that once when I was a kid....blech.

 

[welasharon]

Oops he is offline. Here is a quote:
You need to purchase Valbazen (albendazole.) It is a liquid cattle/sheep wormer. If it's not at your feed store, you can order it online from Jefferslivestock.com or call them. It comes in a 500ml bottle. Valbazen kills all worms that chickens can get including tapeworms. Administer orally using a syringe (without needle.)
Dosage is 1/2cc for standard size chickens and 1/4cc for smaller chickens. Redose your chickens again in 10 days, same dosage. There is a grand total of 24 days withdrawal

 

[SAHMof2]

Thanks so much. I'll see if my local UFA sells it otherwise I'll order some online.

Now to convince dh to stand by me while I open her up.

 

[welasharon]

Good luck!

 

[SAHMof2]

So it wasn't so bad but did smell bad. I looked at her skin and feathers and didn't see any mites. The area around her vent was so terrible though. Just as the other two. There was actually a large bubble coming out of her vent and when sliced deflated and sank down into the vent area.

What I found interesting was what I assume to be the large intestine. I'm assuming the small intestine would be full of black/brown/blue ish stuff that would be poop. The large was about a foot and a half long ish and had a very large mass in it. I'd say it was a bit smaller then a large marble. I squeezed from one end to the other to see if anything came out, like worms, and nothing did. It was totally empty but there was that mass. When I sliced into it it was very dense. Thoughts??

Also there were several spots in the small intestine? that had deviations off of it. Also like a horn and in that deviation it was also a bit dense but not anywhere near as dense as the marble size one.

I found one thing in the poop when I squeezed it out and that would have been a very very tiny taupe colored thing in the shape of a C. I have no idea due to lack of light if that could have been a worm or some undigested food morsal but thought I'd mention it.

I didn't go up further, wouldn't know what I was looking at anyway and there was blood. Ick!

Any thoughts on the mass, horn like deviations and tiny C shaped object?

 

[SAHMof2]

Would anyone know where to look for images of a healthy intestine?

I've checked google and nothing suits my search. I am very interested in these masses and would like to discount them if they wouldn't be the reason for their poor appearnce for the last 4/5 months and ultimate death.

TIA

 

[welasharon]

I cannot find the thread but I read on here recently about someone whose bird had internal masses..I cannot for the life of me remember who it was but I would be suspicious that that would have been the cause of death...and that there wasn't anything you could have done. If I find it I will let you know.
sharon