Oh and yep, it was tapeworms.... like tiny aliens crawling around... I caught them crawling out of my dogs butt too.....
soooooooooooooooooooooo disgusting
Please note with everything I ask, I am not being sassy but truly learning. What were those tell tell signs you saw in your 2 chickens?
One of my newly adopted pups had tape worms. I learned that a major cause of them was an ingested flea... This link has 1 treatment...
http://www.akc.org/content/health/articles/tapeworms-in-dogs-symptoms-treatment-and-prevention/
Anyways, my suggestion is still a fecal float to identify all species you might be dealing with in order to get them all when you treat.
There are so many product on the market. I apologize, I have not yet wormed my birds or had much experience with the different wormers. I do have a sample kit so I can take it to the vet as soon as I am ready.
One thing I can tell you is that the fixes like feed pumpkin/pumpkin seeds or DE are ineffective as wormers.
My dogs eat chicken poo um... relentlessly. We haven't had any outbreaks that I know of, in 6 years. But also we have so many wild animals visiting our property, there are many things that are out of my control. Let me give you an example. Now that I have chickens, the rats/rodents visit my run every night despite the fact that my feeders are all secured. They are going after the shrapnel left behind from messy eaters. Rodents carry things like fleas, tick, lice, mites, and all kinds of possible diseases. My dogs don't have fleas, but they could swallow one while hunting rats. I didn't know they caught something. There was a clump of dirt one of my dogs picked up by it tail and I realized oh, that's something dead. Well, it must have been wet from my dogs mouth (things always are) and them when the dog left it on the ground and continued digging in the whole, that 1 got semi buried or like I say looked like a clump of dirt. With my gloves I escorted the deceased rodent to the front of my property and ugh, it must have been dead for a couple days, because it definitely stunk. My point being that even though my dogs don't sport fleas in their undercoats, they still could easily ingest one that I don't realize. And yes, I guess the chickens DO add more opportunity to pass worms to dogs, than without them. I know even earth worm have eggs form (some other species) and so chickens can get that other species (sorry for my vagueness) from ingesting earth worms, which I turn a shovel of dirt specifically for my shooks to get them!
I don't mind trying to help find dosages for wormer, there should be tons of info..
Keep in mind that DE becomes useless when wet, like from morning dew (according to research I've seen). It may treat some of your surface bugs, but I don't know what effect if any that it will have on their microscopic eggs.
All your hunting animals sound like a riot!
I need me some of those cats, that won't hunt my young chicks.
Maybe it was the opposite. Dogs get worms even when NO chickens are present. It's why so many people worm their puppies. They even get them when nursing on mum.
If you use the wrong wormer for your situation then you wasted your time and money and ended up with a false sense of security. Especially considering that many wormers require you to withhold eggs for a period of time, best to be sure and use the right thing the first time around. Even though you spend ($15 at my vet), in the long run may save you...
