Worms

[barredbeans7]

I have let my chickens free range in my pasture for 2 weeks and today I spotted some white worms moving in their green poop...I was thinking they got them from my swamp/pond...or did they get them from my goats but my goats don't have worms In there poop...how do you think they got them...is it deadly...how do I treat it? Please help my chickens!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Sounds like large roundworms.

http://web.uconn.edu/poultry/poultrypages/diseasefactsheet.html

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps012

http://www.drugs.com/vet/wazine-17.html
Make sure you toss eggs for two weeks after worming! (If you use this Wazine for layers it is off-label, not approved for layers.)

http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/worm_off_piperazine_tablets.html - they say 17 days egg withdrawal

http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/wazine.html -here's wazine

http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/phi/PHI/ROUNDWORMS PHI Handout from Dr. Smith.pdf

There are other wormers that people use off-label that treat other types of worms, and you can search BYC for them if interested (not approved for poultry).
You can search for fenbendazole (safeguard)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/423896/de-worming-chickens-with-goat-safeguard-fenbendazole
albendazole (valbazen)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/125346/research-on-worming-chickens-with-albendazole

Always remember to toss eggs for the specified time as wormers are poisons.

Chickens pick up roundworms from the ground. It is inevitable.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Oh and a lot of folks here on BYC use Wazine for large roundworms and follow up 10 days later with another wormer (would be off-label).

You must decide for yourself...but just one dose of Wazine isn't going to do it for you. The juvenile worms will grow up and they will be infested again. You can repeat the Wazine as one of the links said. If they also have another kind of worm it won't kill those.

 

[barredbeans7]

Thanku...but are worms deadly to them?...and would u suggest that I give them wazine again 10 days later....do u think the worms are coming from my pond or the grass

 

[dawg53]

Worm eggs are picked up in the soil, and insects that chickens eat. The eggs that hatch in the chickens system become larva, eventually working their way into the digestive tract and attach themselves to the intestinal lining. Eventually a chicken will die from worms due to lack of sufficient nutrients to survive, the chicken literally starves to death.
You can read this thread if you wish:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...o-still-seeing-live-worms-in-poo#post_9315842

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Thanku...but are worms deadly to them?...and would u suggest that I give them wazine again 10 days later....do u think the worms are coming from my pond or the grass

Worms can be deadly, yes!!!

You don't want them to have to live with those...it can take a flock down.

The bottle of Wazine says you can give it 30 days later. I wouldn't give Wazine 10 days later. Many people on BYC (myself included) use wormers off-label for our pet chickens and really like them better than Wazine.

 

[barredbeans7]

i used wazine, but their layers....can i eat my chicken eggs or am i toast,because wazine17 is not approved for layers...it says on the bottle DO NOT USE IN CHICKENS PRODUCING EGGS,but i just read that and they have already consumed the water....should i not free range them...are they going to get worms again...if so im not going to free range them anymore!

 

[barredbeans7]

also is thier another wormer that is safe for layers and doesn't make you trow away all the eggs?...I HATE WORMS!!!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

i used wazine, but their layers....can i eat my chicken eggs or am i toast,because wazine17 is not approved for layers...it says on the bottle DO NOT USE IN CHICKENS PRODUCING EGGS,but i just read that and they have already consumed the water....should i not free range them...are they going to get worms again...if so im not going to free range them anymore!

Don't eat the eggs for two weeks after last dosing with Wazine.

http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/phi/PHI/ROUNDWORMS PHI Handout from Dr. Smith.pdf
here it mentions eating the birds for meat after 14 days- not approved for layers

You see, there is NO wormer that is approved for layers.

The worms are in the soil (the worm eggs). They will get worms if they are on dirt. Free ranging actually lets them not eat so many worm eggs as they are on different soil more.

 

[dawg53]

If the chicken is good to eat after the recommended slaughter withdrawal period, so are the eggs.