Worms for chickens!

[Crazy hick chic]

My chickens love love love fresh worms I use DE to help ward off any gape problems but several people who have watched me dig a hole in their run and watched them go gaga over a load of fatty worms have asked me "aren't you worried that one day you will crack and egg and a worm will be in it" my response "if that's how it works why don't people give birth to chickens and cows"? I knew that some of them may have been worried about transmission of parasites but some really meant it the way they asked. OK

 

[gatorshark75]

My chickens love love love fresh worms I use DE to help ward off any gape problems but several people who have watched me dig a hole in their run and watched them go gaga over a load of fatty worms have asked me "aren't you worried that one day you will crack and egg and a worm will be in it" my response "if that's how it works why don't people give birth to chickens and cows"? I knew that some of them may have been worried about transmission of parasites but some really meant it the way they asked. OK

my free range chickens eat every worm they come across and i give my chickens worms i buy from the local worm farmers where i live ive never had a problem as of yet but i do keep them wormed and healthy.

 

[aldarita]

My chickens free range all day long, and when it rains they love to go out and search for the worms that surface after the rain saturates the ground. They eat them with gusto. I have a fecal test done every three months and so far they all have come back negative. I have had chickens for 2 years now and I have been lucky.

 

[Alia]

When I was little, my chickens learned what it meant when I screamed. Unfailingly, one of them would come running and save my life.

But yes, earthworms can be intermediate hosts to roundworms. Isn't it noble for the chickens to sacrifice themselves like that?

Well I guess that's what diatomaceous earth is for.