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If you want to worm all your birds, that's fine. When it comes to tapeworms, most folks dont want to follow their birds waiting for them to poop. They'd rather just worm all their birds and get it done with. Generally, there's a 14 day egg withdrawal period after using most wormers. Dont count...

Definitely a tapeworm segment where the arrow is pointing, tough to tell in the second pic, but it doesnt matter. Dose any chicken that excretes the segments. It's not necessary to treat all your chickens, just the ones with the segments. If it were roundworms, you would want to dose all your...

I recommend that you use Equimax equine paste containing praziquantel. Dosage is given orally 0.03ml per pound or 0.15ml for a 5 pound chicken. Then redose in 10 days. Insects are the hosts for tapeworm eggs.

A photo of the feces would help, then we can ID whether they're tapeworm segments or not.

Right. I use Valbazen, Safeguard, Nemex 2, Levamisole. I also used Wazine on occasion but it's been discontinued. There are others available but I have enough of what I need and use, no problem. :)

You're right about Valbazen, I've used it for a long time. It kills every known type of worm a chicken can get including flukes as well as some types of protozoa. However I've seen tape worm resistance to Valbazen over the years. I've dealt with tapeworms quite a few times when I lived in...

Yes, it's possible you saw a soft egg shell excreted, not a tapeworm. Tapeworms are flat and segmented. It's very rare to have a tapeworm detach itself from intestinal lining and excreted unless the proper wormer such as Equimax has been given to the tapeworm infected chicken. Why would a...