How do chickens get worms?

[Catalina]

How do chickens get worms? Where do they come from?
I thought someone once said earthworms spread worm eggs from the soil to chickens. Is that true?!?

 

[MandyH]

They get worms from eating off of the ground and the worm larvae are laid on/in the soil. The chicken eats the larvae while scratching up the soil and eating and then the worm life cycle begins in the chickens system. Don't know bout the earthworm thing.

 

[hinkjc]

Cat - here is a site that lists some of the intermediary hosts that cause worm transmission.

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/439/treatment-of-intestinal-worms-in-broiler-breeders

Jody

 

[Catalina]

Thanks!
- but that is so gross - grasshoppers carry worms too?!?

Now I want my chickies to live in a plastic bubble! Yuck