New to BYC!! Just overcame Poultry Eye Worm parasites in chicks purchased at a large chain feed sto

[drumstick diva]

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Welcome to BYC!!

Glad you joined us!!

 

[FandangoRanch]

Once treatment was started, was there any recovery of neurological or eye damage? I am dealing with eyeworm right now.

 

[Desert Springs]

Once treatment was started, was there any recovery of neurological or eye damage? I am dealing with eyeworm right now.

Sorry, kinda lost this thread and just now checked in. You have probably already discovered the outcome. My survivors have lost sight in the affected eye...one has her eye still but it is severely clouded and the other is now missing her eye. They are both still active and produce eggs and are part of breeding flocks.

 

[dawg53]

Quote: Welcome to BYC.
Your infected birds will have laid infective eggs in feces deposited onto the soil or inside your coop. Cockroaches eat the infected feces/eggs, then the chickens eat the cockroaches starting the eyeworms lifecycle all over again. An often regular worming schedule will prevent this. Here's a link that uses the eyeworm lifecycle as an example:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps012

 

[BantamFan4Life]

 

[off-grid hen]

Interesting. This post is featured in Backyard Poultry magazine, and I don't know if you have access to the publication, but you should see what was written. The article quotes this post directly.

 

[cgmccary]

Interesting. This post is featured in Backyard Poultry magazine, and I don't know if you have access to the publication, but you should see what was written. The article quotes this post directly.

Yes, renown chicken health expert, Gail Damerow, in a nutshell, in the article, said there was no way the OP had eye worm parasites. Damerow went in detail explaining why & giving her reasoning.

She pretty much exonerated the hatchery - another reason names should not be given (i.e. your conclusions and reasoning could be wrong or off the mark).

 

[off-grid hen]

I simply thought that the OP should know. I am keeping my opinion to myself. I was also wondering what she was insinuating about the site in general too.

 

[cgmccary]

I simply thought that the OP should know. I am keeping my opinion to myself. I was also wondering what she was insinuating about the site in general too.

Ms. Damerow, along with some other well known, real experts, have posted on here before, and some still do post -- or they did years ago. I think she is insinuating that any advice online in any forum should be considered along with who is giving the advice, their experience with poultry, their knowledge . . . and that care & caution should be observed if one is finger-pointing.