Raccoon roundworms

[Alilbit88]

Raccoons coming to my yard and leaving scat everywhere and digging up holes and putting their bums in the drinking water. I have community water for birds and squirrels and at night time they are sitting in the water. Didn’t realize this until I saw on my camera. Now I’m reading raccoon roundworms 85% of them have it and you cant kill the eggs basically. They live up to like 30 years or something crazy. Is there anything I can use to treat my chickens?

Anything I can put in the water for all the birds and squirrels and cats? What would be the dose?

Thanks

 

[Eggcessive]

Chickens can get roundworms from other animals by eating the worm eggs. You may want to use chicken waterers to prevent the raccoons from sitting in them. They can still get them from fecal material on the ground. You can worm your chickens with Valbazen sheep and cattle wormer 1/2 ml for a 4-6 pound chicken, and then repeat it in 10 days. SafeGuard liquid goat wormer or fenbendazole horse paste can also be used 1/4 ml per pound of weight. Worms affect younger chicken worse, but even adults may have problems with a worm overload.

 

[Folly's place]

Raccoon roundworms are a serious danger to humans, never mind the chickens! Hope you aren't barefoot out there, and that you and any children aren't playing in that dirt.
Don't make your yard attractive to those raccoons in any way. Stop having water dishes out there, stop feeding wild birds or leaving pet dishes outside, at least for a couple of months, so your yard is less appealing to them.
We have a fenced in yard for our dogs, and raccoons aren't going to do well there, fine with us. The extra rabies vaccines they have gotten when a raccoon fails to make it out of our yard, fine with us.
Wildlife needs to stay wild, out there, and not close to our homes.
Mary

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Raccoons are just frat guys in animal form. Personally I would shoot them. Their feces contaminate everything and they will kill anything alive that’s smaller than they are. I put up a trail cam that sends an alert to my phone when it sees something. Walk out onto my porch with the rifle rigged up with a night scope and take care of them. This last raccoon was bigger than my Shetland sheepdog and weighed almost 40lbs which is double my dog’s weight.

 

[Alilbit88]

Chickens can get roundworms from other animals by eating the worm eggs. You may want to use chicken waterers to prevent the raccoons from sitting in them. They can still get them from fecal material on the ground. You can worm your chickens with Valbazen sheep and cattle wormer 1/2 ml for a 4-6 pound chicken, and then repeat it in 10 days. SafeGuard liquid goat wormer or fenbendazole horse paste can also be used 1/4 ml per pound of weight. Worms affect younger chicken worse, but even adults may have problems with a worm overload.

This works
for raccoon roundworms and not just regular roundworms?

 

[Folly's place]

Fenbendazole works fine, at the right dosage for the right number of days, and then repeated in two or three weeks. And having your birds on dirt out there, eating stuff, will reinfect them with whatever parasites are present in your environment. It's a trade-off we make when we let our birds outside.
Mary

 

[Alilbit88]

Chickens can get roundworms from other animals by eating the worm eggs. You may want to use chicken waterers to prevent the raccoons from sitting in them. They can still get them from fecal material on the ground. You can worm your chickens with Valbazen sheep and cattle wormer 1/2 ml for a 4-6 pound chicken, and then repeat it in 10 days. SafeGuard liquid goat wormer or fenbendazole horse paste can also be used 1/4 ml per pound of weight. Worms affect younger chicken worse, but even adults may have problems with a worm overload.

Ok I just order what you recommended. Will be giving .5ml correct? Per chicken. this is weird question can I take the Valbazen? Lol. Now I’m getting super paranoid. Because I was cleaning out the water buckets and water splashing on my face and mouth. Ugh. And I’ve been walking all over the yard, as well as the animals. The shoes going in the house and my cat and dogs as well. Technically this is albendazole for the Valbazen which is used in humans as well.

Not much is known about raccoon roundworms says only 22-24 since 1975 people have been infected. What is the likelihood it was infected feces? I read about 85% of raccoons have it. But a lot of people are undiagnosed. Is there any natural remedy or preventive?

 

[Folly's place]

The natural way is to wear shoes and not have the critters in the yard!
Humans don't grow the adult worms (I think) but it's the migrating worm larvae that are dangerous, because they can invade any organ, including brain, liver, whatever. Yuck!
Since having parasitology in school, we never go barefoot outside! And our dogs and cats get regular monthly meds, like Heartgard, to help manage them.
Mary

 

[Alilbit88]

Chickens can get roundworms from other animals by eating the worm eggs. You may want to use chicken waterers to prevent the raccoons from sitting in them. They can still get them from fecal material on the ground. You can worm your chickens with Valbazen sheep and cattle wormer 1/2 ml for a 4-6 pound chicken, and then repeat it in 10 days. SafeGuard liquid goat wormer or fenbendazole horse paste can also be used 1/4 ml per pound of weight. Worms affect younger chicken worse, but even adults may have problems with a worm overload.

So give this whole syringe? Is this correct dosing?