Worms and Worming - Warning, Graphic Pictures and Videos

[casportpony]

 

Maybe I'm confusing your use of 'feather lice' with 'feather mites'(which are 'invisible' as they live inside the feather shaft-from what I've read)


So one day to kill live on peas...how many days for chickens?

Again wonders if chickens metabolized it (spread to skin) slower than peas?

Maybe I should have said poultry lice... Bugs seen were lice.
https://poultrykeeper.com/external-problems/lice-on-chickens-and-poultry/


I think maybe that the type of lice that the peacock had drink from the eyes, so maybe that's why it worked faster on him?


-Kathy

Could very well be...also different 'species'.....'variety'(don't know my nomenclature) of lice is another possible variable.

They are a different type. I'll see if I can get some pictures of them.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@aart , this is a picture of a peacock with a louse drinking from the eye:


Photo by KsKingBee

-Kathy

 

[chicky25ad]

Stupid question I'm sure but how do chickens get worms?

 

[casportpony]

Stupid question I'm sure but how do chickens get worms?

Not a stupid question!
https://poultrykeeper.com/general-chickens/worming-chickens/

-Kathy

 

[chicky25ad]

Thank you that was very informative one of my girls had worms in her droppings today so I have to figure out what wormer to use and how long of a withdrawl period this comes at a bad time seeing I'm getting 12 eggs a day out of 14 hens

 

[casportpony]

Thank you that was very informative one of my girls had worms in her droppings today so I have to figure out what wormer to use and how long of a withdrawl period this comes at a bad time seeing I'm getting 12 eggs a day out of 14 hens

Google chicken roundworm and let us know if it looks like that.

-Kathy

 

[chicky25ad]

No these were very small white worms may 2 or 3 cm

 

[chicky25ad]

But googling that brings up another question worms get in the eggs? They had a pic of a roundworm in the egg yuck

 

[casportpony]

No these were very small white worms may 2 or 3 cm

Were they maggots?

-Kathy

 

[chicky25ad]

No the hen just happened to stop and pooped right in front of me it was runny so I took a better look and seen them moving they were skinny I'll try to get a picture in the morning