These chickens have lived their entire lives in battery cages inside a shed. Their feet have never touched grass. We've only had them a week and a half and only two have found the courage to leave their coop to go into the outdoor run. What I see in their poop is what appears to be teeny tiny...
Thank you! The reason I suspect gapeworm is because she is stretching out her neck and opening her mouth wide - repeatedly. There's no sound whatsoever though. She is very quiet and hasn't perked up like the others have. They are all badly bruised but the rest have started showing normal...
Thank you! I cannot get my head around living in a rural area and not one vet clinic that sees chickens. Did not see this as being an issue. Our feed store carries one brand of wormer - piperazine. We live in Ontario, Canada. Will order the Flubenvet and try the piperazine in the meantime and...
We rescued 6 hens almost two weeks ago. I am pretty sure that one has gapeworm and the others (looking at their stools) have some kind of worm as well. I went to the feed store and they had never heard of gapeworm and offered a de-wormer for roundworm and nodeworms (?). The hen is (obviously)...