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Honestly dunno - but my heavy dual purpose birds are far from a picture from the rear end. Do you have a pic of the poo? Have a link on comp of good n bad poo and can send you when I get up tomorrow so you can check. If you go to my profile and look at the threads I started you should see one titled " poop experts, apply within" and I recall the link being sent to me there, so you can have a look.

Good luck

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Not sure I would equate it with a sign of worms - my flock is wormed every half year or so and the sumo wrestlers lay whoppers and can look as messy. Guess laying big eggs is a bit like a shoe horn? There are alternative analogies, but I'll leave those alone. If they are not losing weight or showing signs of feeling crappy I would not think that worms are an issue.

Chris
 
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DigMyChicks said:
Ok...to start this story this hen layed a 3.7 oz egg last week, at the time I didn't know who did it...3 days ago I noticed all of this poop hanging off her and brought her into the house to give here a bath to see what was going on and figured out she was probably the giant egg layer as she had a prolapsed vent...I now have another Australorp showing that same poop but not as bad so won-
dering if this could be a sign of worms??
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She may have ripped her vent or had a prolapse.
Clean her up with an Epsom salt warm water bath. then have a good look.
Pasty butt and worms are not necessarily linked.
have you ever wormed them?
if not, you need to start with some wazine in the water, let the smaller load pass first, then An Ivermectin, like ivermectin pour on for cattle, 7-8 drops on the back between their shoulder blades.
We worm once a year spring before the egg production cranks up again so that we do not have to toss the eggs. Which we don't anyway because the dogs get them. I figure it is no different than the ivermectin that we give them every month anyway.
 
3goodeggs said:
She may have ripped her vent or had a prolapse.
Clean her up with an Epsom salt warm water bath. then have a good look.
Pasty butt and worms are not necessarily linked.
have you ever wormed them?
if not, you need to start with some wazine in the water, let the smaller load pass first, then An Ivermectin, like ivermectin pour on for cattle, 7-8 drops on the back between their shoulder blades.
We worm once a year spring before the egg production cranks up again so that we do not have to toss the eggs. Which we don't anyway because the dogs get them. I figure it is no different than the ivermectin that we give them every month anyway.
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She did prolapse and I gave her an Epsom salt bath...I've never wormed...outwards signs they look great but I have another Australorp that's showing that runny white poop on the backend. I don't see any signs of worms in the poop under their roosts...thanks for the info!!
CTKen said:
Not sure I would equate it with a sign of worms - my flock is wormed every half year or so and the sumo wrestlers lay whoppers and can look as messy. Guess laying big eggs is a bit like a shoe horn? There are alternative analogies, but I'll leave those alone. If they are not losing weight or showing signs of feeling crappy I would not think that worms are an issue.

Chris
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You're a hoot Chris! I guess we will see what happens...they look healthy other then the two have nasty butts ,thanks!
 
As i understand things, the only worms you are likely to see with the naked eye are roundworms, so some broad spectrum de-wormer would be fine.
 
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