Worms

[dawg53]

No thank you, I had my fill of worms today! YUCK!

Sounds like you need to be wormed. I'll hook you right up with valbazen, AND I have a very large syringe!

 

[featherhead007]

Please don't hurt my daddy. Signed, the rooster

 

[WVduckchick]

You're right about that!
Wyorp Rock is correct, they are large roundworms and wazine will get them. Get you a bottle of wazine at a feed store. Dosage is one ounce per gallon of water.
Here's what you do for 40 chickens:
Withhold their feed and water 2 hours prior to them going to roost for the night.
Very early the next morning before you let your birds out of their coop(s), do NOT put out their feed. Put out several containers with the treated water in the pens, you can use your waterers if you wish, just remember the dosage...one ounce of wazine per gallon of water or two ounces of wazine per two gallons of water. It must be their sole source of water to drink for the whole day.
They will be hungry and thirsty when you let them out of the coop and will readily drink the treated water. The more waterers or containers of treated water that you put out for your birds, the better, that way all of them will get a drink.
Then at around noon time, go ahead and give them some feed to eat, a little at a time.
They will be starving and will gorge feed. When they gorge feed, there's the risk of impacted crop or gizzard. This is why you give them a little feed at a time, and gradually increase feed during the afternoon back to normal.

When your birds go to roost for the night, discard the treated water and provide regular fresh water for them....you're done. Wazine acts as a flush. You might see worms in feces, they will be dead or dying. Worms cannot survive outside the host. Most of the time you wont see worms in feces, they are absorbed as protein once the wormer paralyzes them in the digestive tract.
Then in 30 days, repeat this whole procedure. Done.

 

[dawg53]

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