Tapeworm & Roundworms!

[dawg53]

Did you say pick up droppings? How to dispose of them without spreading the eggs??

Welcome to BYC.
There is no way to completely eliminate worm eggs in/on soil and dispose of them. ONE female large roundworm lays about 200,000 eggs a day.

 

[Eggcessive]

Yes, you cannot completely eliminate them from the dirt, but if you remove droppings into a bucket, and take them away it can help. You may be dealing with tapeworms for some time, but with regular treatment of the chickens who are passing those segments and picking up droppings as best as possible, you may be able to get rid of them eventually.

 

[KClivlaughlove]

Well, here I am back AGAIN! I have done everything as instructed each n everytime I've seen which been dropped a poop with tapeworm segments. I did the treatment only to those in which I seen them drop with my own two eyes and did the dosages of the medications as was specified exactly to include the 10-day follow-up with the pancur for entire flock (a just in case per recommended). As far as the husbandry I don't think it can better considering what we have already done and what we do on a regular! Yet here again we just found this (see pics, and this is way further progressed than any we've dealt with up to this point. And we keep our eyes peeled and literally watching for chickens to poop as sad as that sounds, it's the daily reality of what we spend our time doing! Only this time on top of it being a much further progressed situation We did not see who dropped this one, my husband just happened to have found this dropping as he was tucking them in the bed. Clearly we can see from even from the image that it is a fresh one.) I do believe we're only a month and a half ish since the last round treatments, ugh!! Never ending no matter what we do! I mean we pickup and dispose of every poop we locate all throughout their large coop, even larger run, and larger still (huge) the entire surrounding of our home which is fenced but enormous. We walk out all several times throughout the day and pick up each and every piece of poop We can find! I honestly don't know what more we can possible do! Are they not entirely ridding of the worm to begin with or they getting recontaminated each time? If what we're using isn't working Maybe it's time to start looking into something else? But if they're getting recontaminated what more can we possibly do? In my personal opinion this is a pretty bad case I do not want my girl suffering from! As I stated it is the worst that we have come across thus far and now we don't even know who dropped this one!
Suggestions please PLEASE!