Chickens eating dead pig worms

The real Eowyn

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So I got two free piggies who had only been wormed with pumpkin. I gave them ivermectin injections and put them in the poultry pen for quarantine since I have other kunekunes that I don’t want infected. Should I be concerned about them eating the dead worms( poor things had tons of worms)? Will there eggs still be safe to eat? Also I will be hatching some of the eggs, will it affect the hatch rate?

I searched the forums for an answer to this and yep pigs have huge worms, some of the threads were pretty amusing from people seeing the worms for the first time.
 
Those are probably large roundworms. Yes, they are huge.
They can infect chickens too. Though they are dying, I wouldn't want my chickens eating them.
The ivermectin used to kill the worms, could potentially be a problem for your eggs, especially incubating.
When we wormed our chickens, the entire ground in the pigyard was covered with huge worms.
 

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