Changes noted in chicken stool.

[SheaLoner]

If your animals are on a regular wormer they should be fine. Cats and dogs typically contract tapeworm from infected fleas or infected mice.

 

[Eggcessive]

Chickens get tapeworms by eating a beetle, fly, snail, slug, or worm with the tapeworm egg inside it. That is called an intermediate host. Each tapeworm segment contains a lot of larvae, so it is good to remove her droppings as well as possible. As Dawg53 said, the Equimax is repeated after 10-14 days, and only that chicken may have tapeworms. Here is a good article that mentions flubenvet which is only available in the UK, but Equimax containing praIquantel is probably even better:
https://poultrykeeper.com/digestive-system-problems/tape-worms-or-cestodes/

 

[LaFleche]

Chickens get tapeworms by eating a beetle, fly, snail, slug, or worm with the tapeworm egg inside it. That is called an intermediate host. Each tapeworm segment contains a lot of larvae, so it is good to remove her droppings as well as possible. As Dawg53 said, the Equimax is repeated after 10-14 days, and only that chicken may have tapeworms. Here is a good article that mentions flubenvet which is only available in the UK, but Equimax containing praIquantel is probably even better:
https://poultrykeeper.com/digestive-system-problems/tape-worms-or-cestodes/

And try to keep you run and chicken coop as dry as possible.

 

[Akachicklil]

Yes, it's a tapeworm. I've seen blobs like that when I've dealt with tapeworms. There are flat sections and stringy pieces, and after magnifying the photo there are segments in one section. Typical for a tapeworm.
Follow the instructions that @Eggcessive provided in the above post and buy Equimax equine paste. It'll take care of tapeworms. Redose again in 10 days after the initial dosing.
You only need to dose the broody hen that excreted the tapeworm.

Excellent I will buy that paste… and some how stick it in the back of her throat. I guess with a syringe.

 

[Akachicklil]

And try to keep you run and chicken coop as dry as possible.

Ok I will try… she is on grass. My coop and run is inside a spacious enclosed pen. The grass is always wet because I water it at least once a day. I have lots of flies but I bought the RESCUE outdoor fly trap.. I always make sure to clean the drooping… since I have grass I water the droppings into the soil of the grass. I hose it down so that it breaks up the poop and goes underneath the grasss… is that an ok option??? I do not have sand or any traditional coop run material… just plain grass…. It has seemed to work for me pretty well. I wonder if having the flu trap so close to the pen is the problem. I would not say that there are lots of flys.. I think perhaps there are lots of them because the fly trap attracts them.

 

[Akachicklil]

Ok I will try… she is on grass. My coop and run is inside a spacious enclosed pen. The grass is always wet because I water it at least once a day. I have lots of flies but I bought the RESCUE outdoor fly trap.. I always make sure to clean the drooping… since I have grass I water the droppings into the soil of the grass. I hose it down so that it breaks up the poop and goes underneath the grasss… is that an ok option??? I do not have sand or any traditional coop run material… just plain grass…. It has seemed to work for me pretty well. I wonder if having the flu trap so close to the pen is the problem. I would not say that there are lots of flys.. I think perhaps there are lots of them because the fly trap attracts them. I have a coop which you may not see. The cage she is in is not her home… it’s her broody jail.

 

[Akachicklil]

Make sure to find a wormer that handles tapeworm. Most do not. Probably will need to find something with Praziquantel

I will make sure that the Equimax past contains the Praziquantel.

 

[SheaLoner]

A trick Ive read about on byc for giving meds is to put the meds on or in a chunk of bread and let the chicken gobble it right up! The chicken equivalent to a pill pocket.

 

[Akachicklil]

A trick Ive read about on byc for giving meds is to put the meds on or in a chunk of bread and let the chicken gobble it right up! The chicken equivalent to a pill pocket.

Great idea!!! Thanks!

 

[Akachicklil]

Chickens get tapeworms by eating a beetle, fly, snail, slug, or worm with the tapeworm egg inside it. That is called an intermediate host. Each tapeworm segment contains a lot of larvae, so it is good to remove her droppings as well as possible. As Dawg53 said, the Equimax is repeated after 10-14 days, and only that chicken may have tapeworms. Here is a good article that mentions flubenvet which is only available in the UK, but Equimax containing praIquantel is probably even better:
https://poultrykeeper.com/digestive-system-problems/tape-worms-or-cestodes/

I called my local feed store and they have an zimecterin gold. Have you used that? They said it has praziquantel