eating earth worm

[Yakubu linus]

is earth worm harmful to chickens? Especially noilar.

 

[sourland]

Not certain what noilar is, but earthworms can serve as intermediate hosts for some parasites.

 

[Yakubu linus]

Not certain what noilar is, but earthworms can serve as intermediate hosts for some parasites.

noilar is new chicken breed introduced in Nigeria.

 

[MarkJr]

Mine eat every one they can find. Swear they see how long they can make them before noodling them down the hatch.

 

[yakitori]

Mine hates them and refuses to touch them...

 

[Matejka]

Not certain what noilar is, but earthworms can serve as intermediate hosts for some parasites.

I didn't know that.

 

[Matejka]

noilar is new chicken breed introduced in Nigeria.

Interesting

 

[Dephora]

Mine eat them when they find them. I mean, when your chickens free range for any amount of time you never know what they get into. But slugs, worms, and almost any bug can carry parasites. I don't really worry too much about it, while cecal worms, roundworms and gapeworms often can be transmitted to a chicken from an infected earthworm, I just havent seen any overloads in my chickens before. I also give them my extra red wrigglers when I am tossing them in the garden from my worm bins. Never had a worm issue, though it is possible it may become an issue with a chicken that has a weak immune system.

You might want to research dehydrating worms, apparently many parasites can be killed when dehydrating insects/bugs, though I can't imagine ever using that dehydrator for anything else ever again, I am gagging thinking about the smell.