Questions about feeding live worms

[mikecnorthwest]

bucketgirl... thanks for the info and links. Everything I've read regarding vermicomposting says to use red wiggler and not earthworms so I think I'll be in the clear as far as those concerns go. As I talk to more people about this, including coworkers, it's quite surprising how many people have an interest in worm composting.

 

[desertgirl]

OK-I'm a little puzzled. I was planning on raising mealworms for the girls' treats, and we also are planning/planting an organic vegetable garden. I got red wigglers for the garden, thinking that occaisionally I might throw one to the hens. This is ok because they are red wigglers,right? It is just earthworms that are a no-no,?

 

[bucketgirl]

desertgirl - I think the question is whether any worms carry disease.

As an aside, when you say you are getting red wigglers for the garden, are you meaning a worm bin/vermicomposting? I ask because if you add them to your garden directly, they will likely die as they require a thick layer of decomposing organic material to survive, similar to a compost pile or a pile of leaves.

 

[deerman]

Earthworm host. capillary,gapeworm,and tapeworm.


The capillary and gapeworm can be killers.

All birds should be wormed every 3 months.

You may not be able to stop them from eating earthworm, but you sure dont want to feed them.


gapeworms are also host by slug and snails.
tapeworms are also host by ant,beetle,slug,snail,termite

 

[Glenda L Heywood]

if you have turkeys
earth worms in chickens gut makes more blackhead disease agents
chickens ar not affected by blackhead but turkeys are
chickens just give off the disease
also gape worm is gotten that way

 

[skunknchatter]

ground worms such as earth and red worms are very very different from parasitic worms like round, hook, pin, and tape worms. Your chicken wouldn't grow red or earth worms in its insides. They aren't made to live that way. I feed my chickens earthworms when I'm weeding my garden. They LOVE them! Never had any problems

 

[Glenda L Heywood]

meal worms are acually darkling beetles and can make a mess of your chicken house
so keep the darkling beels contained
they are the beggining of the mealworms your trying to raise to feed to your chickens

also they will live healthy lives and reproduce under any thing stting in the chicken house

They eventually will eat any thing even dead meat and they are famous around poultry buildings that have darkling beetles for carrying disease to your birds

email me at PM and will send you the actual write up from poultry journals about themthey are darkling beetles, larve, then meal worms

keep the meal worms from getting into feed

 

[deerman]

Quote:
True different, but they carry the eggs of parasitic worms, and when eaten by the birds hatch inside the birds gut.

Most chicken will have worms. Look ok but does effect their health.

 

[dirtdoctor]

WAIT!!!!
FEEDING YOUR BIRDS WORMS!
Its really not good for your birds unless UNLESS you hold the worms in your mouth til they reach body temp. then YOUR BIRDS WILL LOVE YOU!!

where does all this mumbojumbo come from? OUR birds love a maggoty feed, high protien. I would take a vermin, put it in a black plastic plant bucket hang it above the ground, and when the FLY BLOW gets to it, the maggoties grow, and leave the bucket thru the holes in the can.. they hit the ground and WHAM end of their life as they Knew it.

Birds love worms. insects. they have been eating insects for centuries.

dont think that they are FEATHERED PEOPLE, only eating what we would eat. Dont go down that road.

have fun

 

[deerman]

When you lose peafowl from capillary or gape worms, then start checking to find out how they get these internal parasites.

Thats where this info comes from.

Guess there is no reason to worm puppies.

If you want your birds in top health they will need wormed.

Yes feeding meal worms, and even maggots(after the raw meat has been remove) can be good for birds.

Yes birds have been eating bugs for years, many have also died from parasities.