Are these round worms? PIC included

[sunnie7]

Well after having chickens for over 5 years seen our first worms today while scooping poop….I’m guessing since I can see them they are round worms?? Advice on treating flock of 30?!?! I have goat safeguard and equine ivermectin paste on hand.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Well after having chickens for over 5 years seen our first worms today while scooping poop….I’m guessing since I can see them they are round worms?? Advice on treating flock of 30?!?! I have goat safeguard and equine ivermectin paste on hand.

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Yep, large round worms.

 

[sunnie7]

Yep, large round worms.

Advice on how to treat 30 chickens?!

 

[sunnie7]

Maybe treat their water with liquid wormer? Paste would take forever....

Or grab them one at a time off the roost, dose it, and put it back or in a different place in the coop/run. It'll take forever, which is why I thought the liquid wormer would be easier.

I don’t think wormer is supposed to be mixed into their water…I could be wrong though!

 

[sunnie7]

@casportpony advice please?!

 

[casportpony]

If you want to eat the eggs during treatment:

Safeguard Mash - Zero Day Egg Withdrawal​

 

[sunnie7]

If you want to eat the eggs during treatment:

Safeguard Mash - Zero Day Egg Withdrawal​

Thank you that’s what I was looking for! If your not worried about eating your eggs during treatment is there an alternative option?

 

[casportpony]

Thank you that’s what I was looking for! If your not worried about eating your eggs during treatment is there an alternative option?

Yes, you can give 0.23 ml per pound orally once, then repeat in 10 days. This will treat cecal worms and roundworms.

 

[sunnie7]

Thank you that’s what I was looking for! If your not worried about eating your eggs during treatment is there an alternative option?

@casportpony I did the 5 day mash treatment and last day was Friday. I scoop poop from poop boards daily and didn’t “see” any worms all week then today I saw 1 large roundworm…. Does it take awhile after treatment or am I going to need to repeat treatment?

 

[dawg53]

Worms are normally absorbed as protein after worming. If they are excreted in feces due to a heavy worm load, it occurs within the same day the birds are wormed.

I suspect that the hen that excreted the worm did not eat enough of the Safeguard mash to be effective or didnt eat the Safeguard mash at all.
This is why wormers should be given orally to each bird individually. That way you know they got properly treated.

Large flocks can be split up for worming. You can worm birds by coops or pens. Worm two coops or pens one day, then two more coops and pens the next day and so on.
Or you can worm birds by breed: RIR's and BR's the first day, EE's and bantams the second day, Buff Orpingtons and sex links the third day, stragglers the fourth day.
Then start over on the tenth day for reworming in the same order as the initial worming.