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I think roundworms and tape segments are the only worms that would be visible if they happened to poop one out, but cecal and capillary worms, I think those are way to small unless you're actually picking the poop up and looking for them, even then I think they are easy to miss. -Kathy

Okay, so the horses are done properly, but what about the chickens? Do you do proper fecals on those, too? Kathy

@heartsizedfarm , how do you get the horses to eat the marigolds? -Kathy

I thought I should add that I will *SCREAM* if one more person on BYC says something like "my animals don't have worms because I don't see them in their poop". -Kathy

By check your fecal sample do you mean look for worms in it? Or are you doing proper fecal floats? -Kathy

No offense, but when it comes time to do the worm the horses we just unpack 14 tubes of ivermectin, ivermectin w/praziquantil or Safeguard and de-worm them, period. Equine surgery is way too expensive for us to risk de-worming any other way. But hey, if you have routine fecals done on your...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_poisoning Toxicology[edit] The LD50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 0.5-1.0 mg/kg can be a lethal dosage for adult humans, and 0.1 mg/kg for children.[9][14] Nicotine therefore has a high toxicity in comparison to many other alkaloids...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088460/ -Kathy

http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/toxicology/qt/nicotine-toxicity.htm What is the toxic dose? The toxic dose for nicotine in pets is 1/2-1 mg per pound of pet body weight, while the lethal dose is 4 mg per pound of pet body weight.1 The type of nicotine (cigarette butt, nicotine gum, etc.) and the...

There's not one properly conducted/documented study there, so until someone shows that to me, tobacco will remain on my "Top Ten Ways to Kill a Bird List". -Kathy

Nice try, but that is not what I call a properly documented study. This one is a properly documented study on the efficacy of ivermectin as a wormer in poultry: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2816174 Ivermectin as a bird anthelmintic--trials with naturally infected domestic fowl. Oksanen...

Okay... -Kathy

Sure wish I could find the thread where someone wormed their turkey with tobacco and it dropped dead as soon as they did. -Kathy