What type of worm eggs?

[Strawberry74]

I just discovered a poop that looks to have worm eggs. Any idea what kind? I have several chickens so no way of knowing who made that.

I'm hoping whatever type of worm can be treated easily in their water.

 

[Quailwhatdoyaknow]

I wonder if that’s from flies. I’ve seen similar things to those on some dog poo after it was deposited in the yard. The flies got on it immediately and with a few hours there were little things like that

 

[Strawberry74]

I definitely would prefer if that's the case! We are starting to get a few flies out and about.

 

[Eggcessive]

If it is fresh, I think those are tapeworm segments. They would be moving if it was a recent deposit. The best wormer for tapeworms is a product with praziquantel. You can use Equimax horse paste 0.033 ml per pound of weight (or 0.16 ml for a 5 pound chickens) orally once and repeat that in 14 days. Or you may use Zimectrin Gold at a different lower dose, or praziquantel, Droncit, Drontal, or Tapeworm tablets 10 mg per every 2.2 pounds.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/treating-tapeworms-under-construction.1220309/

 

[Eggcessive]

This is a good video of tapeworm segments in a chicken dropping:

 

[coach723]

I agree, most likely tapeworm.

 

[Strawberry74]

Nothing was moving and it was a fairly fresh pile. I really do prefer the idea of fly larvae, lol! I wish I could single out who it was because I don't want to dose every bird.

 

[coach723]

With fly larvae you can usually identify a definite 'head' on them, and some species have a bit of a stripe visible down the middle lengthwise. Parasites on the other hand don't really have an identifiable 'head' end and are generally consistent color all over. When they look like grains of rice, usually tapeworm.

 

[Strawberry74]

With fly larvae you can usually identify a definite 'head' on them, and some species have a bit of a stripe visible down the middle lengthwise. Parasites on the other hand don't really have an identifiable 'head' end and are generally consistent color all over. When they look like grains of rice, usually tapeworm.

I don't want to.

 

[Eggcessive]

When treating for tapeworms, you can treat all of them or only the ones that have the tapeworm segments. Tapeworms have an intermediate host—worms, flies, beetles, snails and slugs, ants, termites, or grasshoppers. Once the chicken consumes the host, they become infected with tapeworms if the host has eaten the eggs. If one of those is common around your chicken lot, you may want to remove them so that the chicken does not become reinfected later. Each tapeworm segment seen in the poop contains many tapeworm eggs. Those segments or proglottids are just part of the larger tapeworm.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0653/1989/5292/files/tapeworm-in-poultry-300x197.jpg?v=1704208303