How do you treat chickens with worms?

[InterestingChickens]

Hi,
wondering how people treat their chickens for worms? Thanks!

 

[Eggcessive]

It depends on where you live. Different countries have many different choices for worming. A vet can do a fecal float on some collected droppings to find out if your chickens have worms and what types there are. In warm humid areas, worming might be needed more often, while in arid cooler spots, worming may be done once or twice a year. Here is in the US, Valbazen (albendazole,) SafeGuard (fenbendazole,) or Panacur can be used. In some countries levamisole may be used. In AU, look for Panacur horse paste or Wormout Gel or tablets. Call a vet and ask what products are available. Let us know what you find, and we may be able to help with dosage.

 

[InterestingChickens]

Apparently you can use apple cider vinegar. Dose this work, if so how much do you use?

 

[dawg53]

Apparently you can use apple cider vinegar. Dose this work, if so how much do you use?

No, ACV doesnt work as a wormer, it is misinformation. Aviatrol or Kilverm is what you need.

 

[InterestingChickens]

No, ACV doesnt work as a wormer, it is misinformation. Aviatrol or Kilverm is what you need.

If a chicken had worms, should you be able to see it in their droppings?

 

[pibb]

Some worms you can see and some are very tiny that you can't see with the naked eye. Their eggs can't be seen with the naked eye. You need a microscope. That is were a fecal exam comes in. A chicken can have worms for awhile before expelling some in the poo which usually means they are overloaded.

 

[Tonyroo]

Dropping usually have the worm eggs, not necessarily the worms.

 

[Eggcessive]

No, ACV doesnt work as a wormer, it is misinformation. Aviatrol or Kilverm is what you need.

X2.

 

[dawg53]

If a chicken had worms, should you be able to see it in their droppings?

There's only a few types of worms that can be seen in poultry feces; large roundworms, cecal worms and tapeworms or their segments. Capillary worms are tiny and cant hardly be seen by the naked eye. Then there are other worms such as eyeworms, gapeworms, gizzard worms.

Once you see worms in feces, damage has already occurred internally. Worms normally dont leave their host. There are only two reasons why a worm would leave the host: They are old and are dead or dying. OR, there's no more room in the digestive tract for them and are excreted out the rear end.

 

[InterestingChickens]

Would it be possible for a worm to come out of a chicken while their having a dust bath? I might've seen one. Not 100%, could of been a earth worm.