Getting rid of worms in the run

[Smileybans]

This may seem like a dumb question but I am treating my chickens for worms and don’t want them to get reinfected from the soil they’re on. I cannot move their run or their coop. The run is a 30x30. I treated everyone with valbazen and now want to treat the soil for any eggs that might be there. I used barn lime and raked it in. Is there anything else I can use to treat the soil or should be doing? All of their feeders/ waterers are getting cleaned tonight.
I also have poop boards and am wondering if there’s something I can use to treat those without completely emptying them.

 

[azygous]

You may be under the impression that intestinal worms are living in the soil. They are not. Earth worms may harbor eggs from those intestinal worms, but trying to sterilize the soil won't work to get rid of them. It would just get rid of all of the beneficial microbes in the soil that actually also benefit your chickens. Soil has a very elegant balance that benefits all that live within in (plants and tree roots and good insects) and all that live upon it. (chickens,wild birds, insects, even humans).

The worm eggs you are concerned about will be present in the chicken feces left on the ground where the chickens may ingest them as they pick up grit. It's these feces you need to be concerned about. By merely picking them up or working them into a composting layer just beneath the soil surface will be adequate to keep the intestinal worm eggs from exploding into a health hazard.

 

[Smileybans]

You may be under the impression that intestinal worms are living in the soil. They are not. Earth worms may harbor eggs from those intestinal worms, but trying to sterilize the soil won't work to get rid of them. It would just get rid of all of the beneficial microbes in the soil that actually also benefit your chickens. Soil has a very elegant balance that benefits all that live within in (plants and tree roots and good insects) and all that live upon it. (chickens,wild birds, insects, even humans).

The worm eggs you are concerned about will be present in the chicken feces left on the ground where the chickens may ingest them as they pick up grit. It's these feces you need to be concerned about. By merely picking them up or working them into a composting layer just beneath the soil surface will be adequate to keep the intestinal worm eggs from exploding into a health hazard.

Maybe I worded it wrong. I want to break the lifecycle of the worms. I would like to kill the eggs that end up in the feces of my hens and prevent reinfection. The eggs do end up in the soil. They don’t just stay in the poop. The eggs are then picked up by other animals, earthworms, and the chickens eat those animals or come into contact with them. Getting rid of the poop or composting it isn’t going to help. It’ll just move the problem from one area to another.

 

[dawg53]

Maybe I worded it wrong. I want to break the lifecycle of the worms. I would like to kill the eggs that end up in the feces of my hens and prevent reinfection. The eggs do end up in the soil. They don’t just stay in the poop. The eggs are then picked up by other animals, earthworms, and the chickens eat those animals or come into contact with them. Getting rid of the poop or composting it isn’t going to help. It’ll just move the problem from one area to another.

You'll have to worm your birds monthly like I do. Worms eggs can survive in soil for several years. Keeping everything as dry as possible also helps.

 

[Smileybans]

You'll have to worm your birds monthly like I do. Worms eggs can survive in soil for several years. Keeping everything as dry as possible also helps.

Okay. I can worm them every month. Keeping things dry will be difficult though. I’m worming with valbazen. Once and then again in 10 days. Would I do this, two times, monthly or just once monthly?

 

[dawg53]

Okay. I can worm them every month. Keeping things dry will be difficult though. I’m worming with valbazen. Once and then again in 10 days. Would I do this, two times, monthly or just once monthly?

I use Valbazen as well. I worm once and then again in 10 days. Then 30 days later after the second dosing, start again. I hope that helps.

 

[Smileybans]

I use Valbazen as well. I worm once and then again in 10 days. Then 30 days later after the second dosing, start again. I hope that helps.

Yes that helps a lot. Thank you.