URGENT -- Pigs got wormed indirectly

[jwg423]

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That's what I was thinking too.

x3 we raise pigs also, if my pigs had worms I would reschedule my appt. and worm them first.

 

[SarahFair]

I thought it was common for pigs to have worms?

I know you probly dont want to eat them with the dewormer in their system but worms... normal, no?

 

[jwg423]

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May as well be normal for all I know?!?!?!!

We may be the odd balls but we worm ours once a month so our animals don't all have worms, with the exception of their last month here.
Our chickens free range and they wander into the pig pen often and our dog eats chicken poo

, so to keep all of our animals healthy the piggies get a worming once a month...

 

[arabianequine]

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I would not know since I give the wormer often none of my animals have worms....just like you would goats, horses, chickens, dogs....pigs are not different. You don't want any animal to be living with a parasite eating at it.

More so if you will be eating that meat

No not normal it needs to be treated and my butcher would say something if they seen worms.

Just my thoughts and what I do with my animals.

 

[arabianequine]

Actually I should say this....they can and probably always have some worms but a very low count is ok maybe. When it is high and you see them in their poop, the animal needs to be treated for worms.

The only way to maintain the worms in the animals system is to do a fecal test every so often like every 2-4 months and then treat if needed or just treat for worms routinely on schedule.

I just sent a fecal sample off to WSU to see if my goats had worms and the result was not even one egg or worm...so they got no wormer and even the cocci was very very low so no treatment need on that either. I only did the test this one time since I just inquired these goats on May 1st and I treated them x2 with 2 different types of wormers. My point in doing this was not that I seen worms but to eliminate the reason of their big stomachs to being worms....and I wanted to make sure what I treated them for worms actually worked.

So they are either pregnant or just fat. I gave up and think it is the later nowadays....tired of waiting lol.

I don't send of fecal test usually however; horse, chickens, pigs, goats will get routine worming here at our place.

Whenever I get a new animal unless proved to me otherwise, I give everything like they have never had it before. These goats came in bad condition so it was very obvious they were not cared for properly, prior to coming here.

Hope that makes sense and sorry for getting a bit off topic!

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Don't you want the worms gone from the pig before butchering anyways?

Most animals always "have" worms.
It's only a problem when they have too many

Intestinal worms in a pig have no effect on the quality of the meat as long as the pigs are healthy, and will all die shortly after the pig is slaughtered anyway.

I'd be more concerend with putting toxic chemicals in the pig than it having a few worms​

 

[RHRanch]

Actually, roundworm eggs do not die after a hog is slaughtered. The eggs, or cysts can stay in the flesh or even in the bone of infected hogs. One type can even cause Trichnosis, a very severe disease. This is why the gov't advises cooking pork thuroughly. I actuall knew someone who died from consuming parisite infected meat, and another person who had the cysts in her brain (from consuming eggs in raw fish) and had to have brain surgery to remove them. Heres some reccomendations for preventing trichnosis: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/FS/FS15300.pdf It says routine wormings along with making sure pigs don't eat garbage and or rodents/rodent contaminated foods.

As long as you worm and wait the withdrawl time, it couldn't hurt to worm prior to slaughter.

 

[Mystic Farms]

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X2
That's what I was thinking too.

x3 we raise pigs also, if my pigs had worms I would reschedule my appt. and worm them first.

x4

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

The odds of those worms causing Trichinosis are minute.
The fact that worms were seen in the feces pretty much rules out their being Trichinosis worms, since they are only about 0.055 inches (55 thousandths of an inch) long

The majority of swine parasites have no effect at all on humans

Your own source says they infect less than 0.2% of grain fed hogs
It also says to be effective, worming has to take place within 3 days of the first infection to have any effect at all

Proper cooking or freezing kills the cysts

Trichinosis is a common infection worldwide, but is seldom seen in the United States because of strict rules regarding the feeding of domestic animals and meat-processing inspections.

When a person eats meat from an infected animal, Trichinella cysts break open in the intestines and grow into adult roundworms.

The roundworms produce other worms that move through the gut wall and into the bloodstream. These organisms tend to invade muscle tissues, including the heart and diaphragm (the breathing muscle under the lungs). They can also affect the lungs and brain.

There are approximately 40 cases of trichinosis each year in the U.S​

 

[arabianequine]

Why take that chance though? The op's slaughter place is saying they want to wait and like the op stated the pigs has worms, worm it full strength now and add a day on or however many days once you get it wormed.