Yesterday, my daughter who is home from college on spring break told me that Angel had worms. She said she saw them when she was out in the coop with the chickens and Angel pooped in front of her. I went out to the coop and looked around but didn't see anything. So I went to the farm center, thinking they would know what is the most common type of worms around here and what works to treat it. I put the Wazine in their water this morning.
Then today I went out to the coop after work to give it a thorough cleaning (even more thorough than my usual weekly cleaning). I saw a pile of droppings with some loops of stringy white sticking out of it. So, not being the squeamish type, I picked it apart and looked at it. The worms looked to be about 1 1/2 to 2 inches long.
I do hope I bought the right stuff and that it works because when I told my husband I might have to take one of the chickens to the vet he acted like I was crazy.
Another thing is, I never had this problem until I ran out of wheat straw for their bedding. I started raking up pine straw and putting it in the coop. I wonder if that contributed to Angel getting the worms. I cleaned all that stuff out of there and put down good sweet-smelling straw that I got from the farm store yesterday.
