Chickens: Worms in chickens. How to determine what they are?

In most households, chickens are infested with worms. And this is understandable, especially in cases where laying hens are constantly located in a limited area. In a fairly short time, they trample down the plants and leave nothing alive on the ground. There, to a large extent, the soil is affected by various sources of infection. It’s not hard to catch worms here.

The least likely to pick up worm eggs in chickens that are constantly in cages. Although they are also not immune from this, especially if their place of detention is bad or not cleaned at all.

The bird, which is kept free-range, walks around the site, is not immune from being hit by worms. She can pick him up anywhere and everywhere. The most common cases of infection are the ingestion of earthworms and insects that are carriers of these parasites, as well as through wild birds, soil, droppings of their infected “neighbors” in the habitat, inventory, and shoes of the owner.

Worms must be removed from the body of chickens. However, not every owner can determine the presence of these parasites by their feathered pets. How to recognize that laying hens have become infected and picked up worms somewhere? Of course, the most effective and accurate will be the delivery of analysis – litter.

However, even at home, it is often not difficult to determine from the behavior and physiological state of chickens that they are affected by worms. The first signs of infection: a significant decrease in productivity and soft egg shells. Although this is not always shown. After all, with a cold snap and a decrease in daylight hours, egg laying may decrease in laying hens, and soft shells may be evidence of a lack of calcium in the body.

You can also determine the infection with worms by stopping the growth of the bird, reducing its weight, yellow diarrhea, dirty appearance and pale color of the bird.

Young chickens are more susceptible to the “attack” of worms. In adults, a kind of resistance to defeat by these parasites is developed.

To prevent infection of the chicken and the entire livestock, it is necessary to carry out prophylaxis twice a year. It will be most effective in the autumn and spring periods. Also, it will not be superfluous to prevent the removal of worms in young birds that join the general population, to adult laying hens.

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