ut of the coi need help!

[molly]

One of my bantam hens died It was acting like it could not breath I took it out of the coop to my garage to have a look at it I sat it down it pooped out what looked like mucas it looked like a small brown worm was in it then she started flapping around and died. does this sound like gape worms? please can any one help?

 

[dlhunicorn]

If you suspect worms then take a couple (fresh) samples for a faecal (or if you have never wormed and are having a hard time locating a vet to do a faecal then you can choose to worm with ivomec Eprinex > it will treat nearly all of the most commonly occuring worms)
Gape worm is called so because the birds gape > they can sometimes be seen at the back of the throat ... I do not know offhand if they can sometimes be passed out through the faeces nor how common this is.

 

[77horses]

aw sorry about your hen.

Not sure what happened...probably worms like the first person said??? Good luck!

 

[molly]

Is the wormer okay to give when chickens are laying eggs?