worms

I apologize in advance for the length and for any future clarification questions. I am terrified of making things worse due to thinking I understand and being wrong. I have 4 chickens and a rooster. When I got them mid July they were this year's hens to my understanding and seemed very healthy...

Hi! I don't have any ducks currently but I plan to get some in the future. For the time being I am learning all I can in hopes to be a good duck owner. I have been reading about ducks getting worms, treating worms, about the dewormers. However I can't seem to find any tips on preventing worms in...

Hi - I occasionally get freaked out by what may just be chalaza in my eggs, then I find myself researching worms and never coming to a concrete answer. Regardless of what this is, should I treat my chickens anyways? What should I use? I went thru their poop this morning and it just looked like...

Hi everyone. I have a year old hen who has sour crop. Approx 2 months ago I noticed one of my other hens started to lay some soft shell eggs. I immediately realized something was wrong. She was eating, drinking and acting normally otherwise. Poop was also normal. I hadn’t wormed the girls in a...

So I have two problems with my chickens! of course. Problem #1, earlier today I picked up one of my silkie chicks to check it for PB(I got two silkie chicks from a breeder a few days ago) and I saw a little white bug crawling on her! At first i thought it was mites but mites are usually...

So I just discovered my duck has worms. She hasn’t been walking for a few months so she has been extra high maintenance from taking her out of the house putting her in the pool and putting her back home. I hold her up with a towel and let her use her feet to walk like physical therapy. Oh the...

Mid march is the time when the potatoes must be planted here in West Virginia if you want a good harvest, so i sat down on my rolling seat and started digging holes, plunging potatoes and forming little ridges over the potato rows… It took Katharina and Darkbill Duck less than a minute to figure ou

I have a very sick chicken with a very full, slow crop and who is hardly eating and drinking. (Someone on the post about her recommended posting this question separately. That thread is here...

Hello! I wanted to make sure I am using the correct method to deworm my chickens. One of our birds sadly passed away on Saturday due to worms. We think it was cecal or capillary worms, possibly gapeworms but we didn't think so. There were small, short (1cm?), rounded, light-colored worms...

I have a black australorp hen who I found standing where my chickens hang out off to the side with her eyes closed and sort of puffed up feathers. She’s one of our less friendly chickens, and I went to pet her and she just stood there. Usually she’d run off or move away. Then, when I threw some...

Hi all! Over the years we have kept a small, tidy little coop of 6-10 hens. We currently have 6 hens, ranging from 2 to 3 years old. They have a warm and clean house, spacious run, and plenty of fresh herbs, veggies, grubs, layer food, calcium source, grit, and fresh ACV water every single...

I made a post on here not too long ago asking about a hen of mine that is ill. This one: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hen-struggling-to-poop.1517661/#post-25544467 This is a follow-up post because she has gotten worse. I have confirmed that she isn't egg-bound, and doesn't have...

My 3 y/o ISA Brown hen, Buffy, has very much slowed down her laying (with some intermittent lengthy breaks). However, this past week, I noticed she'd go to the box like she had to lay without producing an egg. This made me nervous about internal laying, which I'd just lost my beloved BR to after...

2 days ago, I found one of my SLW hens standing with her tail down in a corner of the coop. It was really cold outside so I brought her into the house. I gave her food and water. She is eating a little bit of food but not drinking the water. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. She...

My 4 year old wyandotte hen is acting totally normal, eating and drinking normal, running out of the coop each morning. The only thing wrong is her poop is weird. Semi-clear liquid with some solids mixed in. Every once in awhile she'll drop a semi normal one. I just dewormed her with valbazen...

So the other day my pack leader hen found a dead mouse my cats had killed and swallowed the thing whole when I tried to take it away from her. I feel like I should de-worm her, yes? Any suggestions on good de-wormer and directions on how much to administer?

So, when I went out to do chores this morning, I found what I thought were round worms in a chicken poo nugget. I did a bunch of reading and ended up treating with Wazine. This afternoon I came and inspected the coop and the areas the chickens hang out and I can't find any other turds that look...

I had 5 9 week old chicks of various breeds. one died last week, I got them about a week and a half ago from a breeder. Since we have had them they have had diarrhea that is VERY watery. They are being fed chick starter (unmedicated), not sure what they were given before we picked them up...

I’ve used the Equimax for treating tapeworms (which worked great by the way) and was wondering if it would be as effective for roundworms? It’s been wet and muddy for a while, and I saw one roundworm, in a hen’s feces. I’ve used straight up ivermectin before for roundworms….But I was...

I have chicks that are exactly a week old and I just found this incredibly long poop, but it’s def connected by some sort of string or something. I’ve read other posts about instestinal lining but it’s about 6-7” long…which seems to long to be lining or a worm in such a tiny chick? they have...