worm in egg?

[heath_elisha]

we found a small worm in a egg from a neighbors chicken (we were babysitting their flock) Really grossed me out..... still have not had a egg since. Don't even want to cook them for other people. It was a one time thing and I am hoping I never find one again! So nasty..... just a small thing, but still.... nothing like the picture posted previously. We did a garlic treatment on our birds with hopes of not having any in our birds.

 

[montanaSarah]

did you take a picture? did you tell your neighbor? i would want to know if they were my chickens...that is nasty!

 

[dawg53]

A little garlic sprinkled on the egg with salt and pepper... mmmmm!

 

[flowerchild59]

Oh my.......... I am grossed out.

 

[chezpoulet]

I also found a worm in one of our eggs after I found a roundworm on the run floor. Needless to say, I wormed the chickens immediately. Now this is AFTER I had sent a a poop sample to the vet for a fecal float which came back negative ($30). So even if you do a fecal float and it comes back negative, it may not mean that your flock does not have worms! Definitely put me off eating eggs for a few weeks, even though husband says it's just additional protein for us.

 

[Wayne&Kim1963]

You can get your own fecal float kit from shopmedvet.com

 

[flowerchild59]

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I know that labs are often incorrect because as a nurse, I have seen specimens, ie worms, from human patients sent off to labs for analysis that came back negative. I mean, I saw them myself, all 12 inches of them in a specimen jar !!!!!!!!!!!! How could a lab tech not identify a 12 inch worm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am glad someone posted this, because a negative test means close to nothing. I know the dr. in the above case treated the patient with medbendazole anyway, twice, two weeks apart.