How often should you worm a flock of 7 chickens?

[kaceek]

How do you tell if chickens have worms?

 

[ella]

Your local vet can do a fecal float test to check for worms.

 

[PunkinPeep]

People who do regularly worm - not everyone does, usually start (so i've read) around 6 months and then re-worm every six months or so.

Some won't worm unless they see evidence of worm infestation.

Some say they've never wormed - in 2500 years or so - and never needed to.

It must depend somewhat on where you are.

Some people use cayenne pepper and/or food grade d.e. as natural preventatives.

There are so many different practices on worms in this forum, it would be difficult to outline them all.

 

[Catstar68]

Deworm....you don't want to worm them

LOL, seriously though, I only dewormed mine once but they are my first flock at the new place and there hasn't been any chickens there before. I guess it all depends....tape worms are passed not from chicken to chicken but through an intermediate host like a snail or slug and they are relatively uncommon. Roundworms can be passed through feces so you may have to repeat at 3 to 4 week intervals as chickens will reinfest themselves through their eating habits. Nothing beats good house keeping though. Winter takes care of a lot of these pests in the environment but the parasite eggs can still be quite tough and survive in the soil.

It's frustrating.