Roundworms **only** ?????

[Wetherwell]

Since I'm new and I'm not witness, I had to come to y'all to ask for your thoughts, experiences and opinions about this little matter that is driving me craaaazy LOL

My aunt came and picked up my son the other day and got a dozen eggs. I just spoke to her son who told me there was a worm in one of the eggs she got from me.

He said it was a greyish color and it looked like a maggot only longer...about twice as long as a maggot.

He also told me the first time I spoke to him that it was really gross but he didnt look at it too long... which lead me to call him back a few minutes later.

I asked if he saw it move and he said he did. I questioned was the egg moving any or just the "thing" in the egg... he said the egg was still but whatever worm it was, was moving.

I called him back a third time to ask if he took a photo with his phone that he could email or text to me but he didnt even think about it and his my ( my Aunt ) dumped it down the disposal.

So my question is .... do hens only get round worms or can they get others that could be enclosed in the egg ?

I've searched all the threads and saw the one photo that everyone posts about from the poultry site that shows a round worm in the egg. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW gross ~

My aunt is not home to talk to her directly about it.

So my thought is besides "how gross" is to worm the big girls.

I have 6 adult Buff Orpingtons and just two weeks ago put the 20 ( 3 month old ) pullets in with them. The pullets were moved to a different area all fenced off from the big girls for the look but dont touch for about a month.......

For what it's worth, I havent ever seen any worms in the nest boxes, in poop or anywhere near the chicken yard ( the big girls do get to free range about once a week when we can keep an "eagle" eye on them to protect them from the idiot neighbors dogs who comeinto my yard ).

I'm so ready to call my hubby to tell him to get to rural king and get some wazine on his way home from work but if this is a fluke or a meat / blood spot that my cousin saw then I dont want to worm them if not necessary ~

Thanks ~

 

[mnferalkitty]

It wasn't a worm it was probably the long stringy thing that holds the yolk to the white here is a quote from someone else explaining it
"it is called a chalazae cord. It is there to anchor the yolk in the center of the egg. The presence of a prominent chalazae is actually an indication that the egg is fresh because as the egg ages the chalazae becomes less noticeable." Here is a picture show it to him and see if that is what he saw