Roundworms

[Aapomp831]

Ok, so we live in NC and the weather is still in the 60s at night and 70s during the day. It is currently POURING and has been for 2 days. My yard is full of puddles so my chickens are drinking from the poopy, muddy puddles instead of their water bowl. I’m sitting here helplessly watching as they do this, and I am terrified they are all going to get worms (which happened last year when I had way less chickens so worming them was easy). I now have 50 chickens so worming them individually is NOT an option. Yes, I know that the way to do it is at night with a headlamp when they roost but still - completely unrealistic.
So... we do know how to make the mash out of the safeguard. But... what I don’t understand is how do you kill the parasite larvae in the soils??? Our chickens free range on 1 acre. Our yard is going to be a soggy sh*t show for weeks... so I just don’t understand how to keep them from constantly reinfesting themselves over and over again if the eggs are just in the ground....
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[Hei 20]

Ok, so we live in NC and the weather is still in the 60s at night and 70s during the day. It is currently POURING and has been for 2 days. My yard is full of puddles so my chickens are drinking from the poopy, muddy puddles instead of their water bowl. I’m sitting here helplessly watching as they do this, and I am terrified they are all going to get worms (which happened last year when I had way less chickens so worming them was easy). I now have 50 chickens so worming them individually is NOT an option. Yes, I know that the way to do it is at night with a headlamp when they roost but still - completely unrealistic.
So... we do know how to make the mash out of the safeguard. But... what I don’t understand is how do you kill the parasite larvae in the soils??? Our chickens free range on 1 acre. Our yard is going to be a soggy sh*t show for weeks... so I just don’t understand how to keep them from constantly reinfesting themselves over and over again if the eggs are just in the ground....
FRUSTRATED.

Fill the puddles with sand so they are forced to drink from their water bowl

 

[Aapomp831]

Fill the puddles with sand so they are forced to drink from their water bowl

That’s a great idea except that our yard is gigantic and some of the puddles mimic the Great Lakes lol but maybe I will put sand under the coop where they are all currently hiding from the rain so they at least drink their clean water when they’re under there.

 

[Hei 20]

That’s a great idea except that our yard is gigantic and some of the puddles mimic the Great Lakes lol but maybe I will put sand under the coop where they are all currently hiding from the rain so they at least drink their clean water when they’re under there.

Just thought about this. You can make their run shorter temporarily by putting some type of barricade. So their coop and run will be connected and shorter for now. And only put sand on that area.

 

[Aapomp831]

Just thought about this. You can make their run shorter temporarily by putting some type of barricade. So thir coop and run will be connected and shorter for now. And only put sand on that area.

That could work. We would have to buy extra fencing but we’ll see...
Thanks for the reply.

 

[Hei 20]

That could work. We would have to buy extra fencing but we’ll see...
Thanks for the reply.

Some type of mobile barricade or fencing that you can reuse every raining season.