Just found a worm in an egg! Ewwwwww!!!

[Judy]

Good news is, there are enough people on BYC that an oddity like this will show up now and again. Bad news is, it proves a point, that there really is no such thing as a natural wormer -- what is marketed as such, does not work. IMO, of course.

 

[Rozzie]

Didja take pictures?

 

[gumbii]

i just started with chickens, and they have started laying eggs... i have collected 4 eggs in the past days...

now reading this...


i am NEVER going to eat one of my hen's eggs... OMG this is some nightmare stuff going on in there... LOL... i will never look at another egg the same again... OMG they could be in the market store eggs too right...??? jaskdfjaskdfjaksdfjasdkjdsfk;jdfkajkl;ajslkdf i am officially off eggs unless it comes out of a milk carton...

thx...

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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[dawg53]

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This is simply just not the case, it is not common for a worm to be in an egg. Usually there are "signs" that you can tell if your chickens have worms....acting lethargic, slacked off eating, drinking and laying...check their poop. You can worm them once a year or more if you wish to eliminate worms, but dont go overboard and get paranoid over this.

 

[theFox]

It is just extra protein so what's the problem?

 

[Huston's Happy Hens]

I would say that just about anything is possible when raising hens. We had a hen this summer which started to reabsorb a fertalized egg causing a uterine infection. She was releasing feces from both her ceca and colon creating absolutely huge deposits of poop! I was in contact with a poultry disease specialist and supplied him with pictures and information, etc. I believe his diagnosis was correct (we had pics of the developing chick which we had removed from the feces) because she did infact die about a week later which he predicted of a uterine infection.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Assuming it's a roundworm that entered the cloaca wouldn't there be a roundworm "infestation" in the coop? Usually where there's one parasite there's another. Where did the roundworm come from in the first place?