Our soil is warm, moist or wet most of the year, worm soup; large roundworms, capillary worms and cecal worms mostly, and it's hot and humid most of the year as well. I rotate wormers as well.
I know I can’t find anything on internet about those orange/yellow wormy things. I took a sample for a fecal float, first one they said hairworms, I did another one 3 days later and they said they couldn’t find anything. I’ve never been so confused ahah. I wanted to do another one on Saturday but I gave them working tablet this morning so I don’t think it’s worth doing one on Saturday
I can’t remember. I think I tried to find one but I couldn’t. It usually only appears later in the day. When I clean the coop in the morning I generally can’t see them and when I do my poo hunt when I get back from work they are present in the poops.
It looks like calcium deposits. Probably nothing to do with the worms as it’s hard and when I squash it between my fingers it doesn’t break. I showed a photo to the vet he said it might be fungus
It is my belief that some individuals will be more susceptible to worms than others but I was certainly not suggesting you cull them..... my suggestion was to try treating your land with agricultural lime as well as worming them. If those are tape worm proglottids which they appear to be, then they are full of tapeworm eggs and are dispersing onto your pasture as you can see in the photo where they are travelling onto and up the blades of grass in order to be eaten by a third party. The eggs will then be released and shed back onto the land and the risk of re-infestation of your chickens is therefore quite high once the wormer you are using has gone through their system. It might be a good idea to pen them for a period of time somewhere that poop is more easily cleaned up or conditions are less favourable for the life cycle of the tapeworm to be completed.
