ranchgirlcooks
In the Brooder
Hi there fellow chicken lovers!
Tonight my son noticed a white stringy looking thing in someone's poo....I googled it and it looks like Roundworm. Seems fairly common. What is the best medicine (prefer something I don't have to stick down their throat as I'm very new to this!) I'm going to watch them tomorrow and try to figure out who has the worms. But, I figure I should worm them all. Is there an all around across-the-board worm med?
I also have a gold laced Wy. with a huge chest. She's had it since she came to live with us about a month ago. She is eating and pooping fine but oh my goodness, she stinks horribly. Like a dead animal. I isolated her today and gave her bread soaked in olive oil and tried massaging her crop. I've read about gapeworm....I've not seen any red wrigglies in her poos but do her other symptoms sound like it? She is fast if you try to catch her but certainly not lively like the other chickens. Red comb but I did notice she has plucked out some of her breast feathers. Which made me think she was broody not too long ago....I also thought she had 'broody poo' but now I think maybe it was just her that smelled.
Thank you all for your chicken wisdom helping this newbie.
Tonight my son noticed a white stringy looking thing in someone's poo....I googled it and it looks like Roundworm. Seems fairly common. What is the best medicine (prefer something I don't have to stick down their throat as I'm very new to this!) I'm going to watch them tomorrow and try to figure out who has the worms. But, I figure I should worm them all. Is there an all around across-the-board worm med?
I also have a gold laced Wy. with a huge chest. She's had it since she came to live with us about a month ago. She is eating and pooping fine but oh my goodness, she stinks horribly. Like a dead animal. I isolated her today and gave her bread soaked in olive oil and tried massaging her crop. I've read about gapeworm....I've not seen any red wrigglies in her poos but do her other symptoms sound like it? She is fast if you try to catch her but certainly not lively like the other chickens. Red comb but I did notice she has plucked out some of her breast feathers. Which made me think she was broody not too long ago....I also thought she had 'broody poo' but now I think maybe it was just her that smelled.
Thank you all for your chicken wisdom helping this newbie.