Found worms! Freaking out!

[dawg53]

Eating poo, drinking blood and generally just doing worm things!

You're partially correct, good job!!
Not eating poo. But the worms are pooping too, which is toxic to the chicken. Also sucking blood and weakening the chickens immune system while starving the bird of nutrients at the same time.
You are absolutely correct about the "worm things" that they do...reproducing...thousands of eggs a day.
Yep, that's misinformation that a chicken can handle a light load of worms.

 

[WthrLady]

I worm after the first hard freeze and when they aren't laying due to low light levels anyway and again in the spring when the worst of the rains after the ground thaws down 6 inches. Which reminds me......I'll start Monday.

 

[KingTorta69]

I have a issue with something like that too this is there poop anything i should do??

 

[EggWalrus]

I have a issue with something like that too this is there poop anything i should do??View attachment 1599102

Are you kidding? Is that a piece of pizza?!?

 

[KingTorta69]

Are you kidding? Is that a piece of pizza?!?

Lmaooo nah thats why im asking

 

[dawg53]

I worm after the first hard freeze and when they aren't laying due to low light levels anyway and again in the spring when the worst of the rains after the ground thaws down 6 inches. Which reminds me......I'll start Monday.

It's always a good idea to worm in the spring. Everything comes alive from the winter cold, new life...the birds and the bees...including worms.

 

[Hessk]

It's always a good idea to worm in the spring. Everything comes alive from the winter cold, new life...the birds and the bees...including worms.

What do you use to worm them?

 

[townchicks]

In the meantime, what are the light load of worms doing in the chicken?

I think you are misinterpreting my statement. Obviously, any worms in the intestines are going to reproduce and eventually cause problems, as well as causing eggs to be shed into the surrounding area. I'm not saying to not worm your chickens, I'm saying that it is not an emergency freak out situation, there is time to get a fecal done and worm appropriately. Additionally, if you are seeing worms in the stool, that is not a light load. However, if you see worms, then you are able to tell what worms you have, and target those worms specifically. Random, broad spectrum deworming "just in case" is not appropriate, IMO. It creates resistance.

 

[casportpony]

The problem with worming only after a fecal test finds eggs is that a single fecal test is not full proof. A single fecal test just means that eggs were not found that one time, it does not mean that your animal doesn't have worms. Jusk ask @Texas Kiki, she had a fecal done and I think that same day, or maybe a day or two later, saw tape segments and roundworms.

Another friend of mine had her deathly ill hen's poop tested and it was negative, but 2-3 days later another test found large numbers of capillary worms *and* coccidia.

 

[townchicks]

@casportpony I completely agree, and I've said so before also. The problem is getting people to do the fecals even once is hard, getting them to do it twice is even harder. Even with their dogs and cats. Some how, if the sample is "negative" they seem to feel they've wasted their money, ask them to do it again, and they think you're just trying to get more money for nothing. At least, that was my experience when I was working as a vet assistant. Tapeworms are almost never found in fecal floatation, BTW, as their eggs are incased in the little segments that we see in the stool.