Treating hookworms

[casportpony]

Pumpkin seeds will not remove worms from chickens.

X2!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I was pretty sure chickens can't get hookworms. They will pick up eggs when they eat but they don't develop into infective larvae.

https://books.google.com/books?id=b...h0Z8QHk#v=onepage&q=chickens hookworm&f=false

Gail Damerow's 'Chicken Health Handbook' lists 19 species of nematodes that infect chickens but there is no mention of hookworms.

Also, any chicken outside will test positive for coccidia because they pick them up all the time but usually they've become resistant.

The book I have, Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual, doesn't mention hookworms in poultry, but I did notice that cat and dog hookworms look a lot like poultry larg roundworm eggs, or maybe cecal worm eggs, so I bet that's what they were.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Quote: The correct amount of an effective wormer given orally will treat worms.

-Kathy

 

[chickengr]

The correct amount of an effective wormer given orally will treat worms.

-Kathy

unfortunately I don't have a choice of wormers. the only one I have is a powder to put in water. must be consumed within 45 minutes. I am not even sure if they kill all types of worms.

pumpkin seeds killed a worm that look like this:

 

[casportpony]

Quote: That looks like a tape worm, and tapes are hard to kill unless you use praziquantel. There is a study that says fenbendazole given three days a row will kill one of the species, but I have my doubts. To the best of my knowledge, praziquantel will kill all species of tapes.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

In early September I purchased 5 hens/pullets from a breeder I had found on Facebook. A few days after bringing the girls home I noticed some diarrhea. After having a stool sample checked it was determined they had coccidia. I started a round of Corid which seemed to help at first. I treated them for 3 weeks....first with the severe dose and then the moderate dose for the next 2 weeks. I took another stool sample in and had it checked and this time hookworms were found. I did 2 rounds of worming with pyrantal and again the stools were looking good. After almost 6 weeks of quarantine I finally let them join my flock last Friday. Now I am seeing the yellow, foamy stools again and I am just so beyond frustrated at this point. I was planning on starting a course of Corid next week just to be on the safe side for everyone as well as one more worming with pyrantal. In my desperation to get these girls healthy I have even been adding some DE to their food which I know has mixed reviews from people. I am just at my wits end and would love some advice from anyone who may have had a similar experience. They have probiotics and electrolytes in their water and I was hoping this would help. I am wondering if these girls will ever be healthy and I am just feeling sick with the fact that my silkies are probably infected now as well, even though I did a round of pyrantal with them as well. HELP!

Yellow foamy poop is never normal in my flock, and my vet made a comment about foamy poop being caused by protozoas. Might be a good idea to have another fecal done.

-Kathy

 

[chickengr]

That looks like a tape worm, and tapes are hard to kill unless you use praziquantel. There is a study that says fenbendazole given three days a row will kill one of the species, but I have my doubts. To the best of my knowledge, praziquantel will kill all species of tapes.

-Kathy

unfortunately I can find it for people's use only.

long time ago my grandmother got rid of tape worm by eating pumpkin seeds. that is how I know about it. I always suggest people to give pumpkin seeds to the chicken besides the chemical wormers. in my experience they need both. especially if there are no good wormers in the country where they live, like in my case.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Do people in Greece ride horses? If so, get some horse wormer.

-Kathy

 

[chickengr]

Do people in Greece ride horses? If so, get some horse wormer.

-Kathy

I live in a small island near athens but I will try to find horse wormer. there are very few horses here. what would be dosage for chickens?

there are some goats and sheep here. I guess there are wormers for them. would they do and what dosage?

 

[Akrnaf2]

 
Do people in Greece ride horses? If so, get some horse wormer.

-Kathy

I live in a small island near athens but I will try to find horse wormer. there are very few horses here. what would be dosage for chickens?

there are some goats and sheep here. I guess there are wormers for them. would they do and what dosage?

If you can't find a veterinarian dewormer, you could do what I have done here successful and use a human dewormer. I have used mebendazole or in its generic name- Vermox
Reed this link
http://www.rxlist.com/vermox-drug.htm
The dosage is 30mg/kg buddy Weight and another time after 10 dayes.
Good luck
Benny
Edited by Akrnaf2 - 10/29/15 at 5:46am