How often you treat for worms is up to you if you have fowl running free
range you should worm more so than cooped or penned fowl. fowl get worms
from eating insects that are host for worms.. here a few worm medications
that will help out.
Piperazine will ONLY kill round worms.
Levamisole is for gape , Cappillary and some round worms.
Ivmec will remove all but tapeworms.
Wormal will kill tape, cecal and round worms.
CAPILLARY WORMS there are 6
species of these worms .a thin hair like white worm. some infect the crop
and esophagus and other the intestines. birds with these worms will become
droopy, weak very thin and have diarrhea .they will stand with their heads
drawn close to their bodies. The earthworm is the intermediate host for
capillaria. the capillary worm eggs are passed out of the chicken through
the droppings then the earthworm eats the eggs and the chicken eats the
earth worm.
GAPEWORMS this worm lives in
the wind pipe of the bird causing the bird to yawn or gape because it is
hard for them to breath. it grows very fast and if it is not controller it
will block the windpipe and the bird will suffocate. The are a round worm
reddish in color. birds get gape worms by eating earthworms, slugs and
snails. The gape eggs can live in a earthworm for 4 years. slugs and snail
up to a year. the gape worm eggs are coughed up by the bird swallowed them
passed threw droppings. If another bird eats these dropping he will become
contaminated with gapeworms.
TAPEWORMS is a flat worm with
lines running across it, that can break off and passed through the
droppings. being picked up by other birds. or eating by insects such as
beetles, ants, grasshoppers, houseflies, also earthworms, slugs, snails
....
ROUND WORMS can be picked up
from the sill, droppings, feed or water. the most common and hardest worm to
get rid of. because the eggs have a hard covering that resists chemicals
heat ,cold so they can live a long time int he ground. the eggs hatch in the
intestine tract sever days after hatching they enter the lining of the tract
where they stay for 10 days. if you worm your birds during this time the
medicine will not work you need to worm 10 days later.
CECAL WORMS birds get these
worms by eating infected droppings. the chicken has two bags that grow off
each side of the intestine track called Cecal the worms live near the tip of
the Cecal. they are a slender white worm about 1/2 inch long.
EYE WORMS [ mansoni eye
worms] small white worms that grown in the corner of the eye causing
swelling. birds get worms from eating cockroaches. use 3 drops of vet-rx
directly in eye for 3 days. or put 3 drops of ivomec directly into eye for 3
days. inject birds with 1/2 cc of ivomec just under the skin in back of the
neck or breast.
LICE AND MITES
LICE stays on birds at all
times, look for white eggs at the base of feathers in the vent area. Best
treatment is 4 tablespoons of malathion to 1 gallon of diesel fuel spray
pens and/or t-pees. spray birds thoroughly but with caution on vent under
wings. the diesel will penetrate the wood.
MITES are gray in color until
the have sucked the blood then they are red in color. they are night
feeders. during the day they will hide in cracks of the root or t-pees. that
is why it is best to look for them at night on birds. Treatment is same as
for lice.
FEATHER MITES live on the
base of the feather and/or burrow into the quill. They can also burrow in
the skin. 1 tablespoon of Permaban to 1 gallon of water dip birds.
LEG MITES live in the scales
of the leg and feet. and toe. Scales will become raised and thick note: once
scales have been raised they will never go back into place. treatment spray
scarlet oil on legs and feet ever day for 3 weeks.
