can they be born with worms????

[dancingflower68]

So my little 2 day old splash marans just pooped something like a small piece of angel hair pasta (gross I know...don't have spaghetti tonight!) My instinct says worm, but I thought they would start out clean coming from a hatchery (My Pet Chicken). Can they be wormed this young? They are on medicated chick starter.

 

[Chemguy]

I don't know what it was but they are too young to be wormed, which can be pretty rough on a bird depending on the medication. Others might be able to provide some less dramatic approaches that you might take.

 

[TrystInn]

They aren't too young to put a bit of DE in with their medicated feed, which is what I would recommend at this stage of the game. You might also try a little apple cider vinegar or chick booster in the water to support the chick while you keep an eye on it to see if anymore come out.

 

[dancingflower68]

Thanks TrystInn, I will get some DE tomorrow. Is chick booster the same as Sav a Chick? I've been using that. She did poop a good size poop since that worm thing, and I didn't see anymore, and the one that came out wasn't moving. Hopefully there aren't any more. I'll be using the ACV as soon as I figure out if the filtered kind is OK, I can't find any raw in town.

 

[Aeropennchick]

I agree with the ACV and DE - but let me caution you to be careful to only put a little dusting of DE on the food and mix it in before giving it to the chicks! I laid some down to make a dust bath in my chick's pen, and before I could mix it, one ran up and gobbled a mouthful, inhaling some of the dust. She wheezed for three days and scared the crap out of me!

 

[chickenrun1020]

I'm new to chicken keeping so someone correct me if I'm wrong but I heard that you could put a small amount of yogurt in the water as a probiotic to help with the digestive tract, just a thought I want to throw out there

 

[TrystInn]

I'm really against yogurt for chickens, as birds aren't mammals, don't breastfeed and so aren't introduced to lactase (necessary to digest lactose), have primitive digestive systems and don't have any of the same dietary needs as mammals are distinctly lactose-intolerant. Gumming up the crop seems like a really stupid way to treat one's chicks and chickens, as one can make them VERY sick in doing so.

You're very likely to create spoilage in your water source, given the high heat in a brooder by introducing a milk product to the water. All in all, not really worth the dangers involved.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

So my little 2 day old splash marans just pooped something like a small piece of angel hair pasta (gross I know...don't have spaghetti tonight!) My instinct says worm, but I thought they would start out clean coming from a hatchery (My Pet Chicken). Can they be wormed this young? They are on medicated chick starter.

It is not possible for Nemtodes to infect an organism before they are born...they enter the digestive tract orally.

Was this "Angel Hair Pasta"...moving when it was passed through the vent? If it isn't moving then its hard to tell what it is, if it is moving...then yeah, begin treatments and clean your brooder more often than normal. I would disinfect thoroughly with these cleanings as 90% of the Nematodes body mass is reproductive material...they are designed to spread the wealth around.

 

[dancingflower68]

I'm really against yogurt for chickens, as birds aren't mammals, don't breastfeed and so aren't introduced to lactase (necessary to digest lactose), have primitive digestive systems and don't have any of the same dietary needs as mammals are distinctly lactose-intolerant. Gumming up the crop seems like a really stupid way to treat one's chicks and chickens, as one can make them VERY sick in doing so.

You're very likely to create spoilage in your water source, given the high heat in a brooder by introducing a milk product to the water. All in all, not really worth the dangers involved.

Well, I didn't put any yogurt in their water. That's where I put the ACV. I did however mix some with their crumbles on a little plate and they loved it. Instead of gumming anything up it seemed to have the opposite effect, and their poops are perfect now, and no more pasty butt. I advocate yogurt based on my own personal experience and what I read on a very extensive pasty butt thread I read on this site...it seems to work for many people, but to each his own..cheers