Worms

Other Names

internal parasites


Organism or Mechanism

• Ascaridia galli (roundworm)
• Capillaria bursata, C. caudinflata, C. absignata,(roundworms)
• Syngamus trachea (nematode/gapeworm)
• Heterakis gallinarum (cecal worm)
• Cestodes Davainea proglottina
• Raillietina cesticullus (tapeworms)
• trematodes (flukes)

Preventative Measures

• Keep pastures clipped and limed.
• Graze pasture one year and cut the next.
• Use good hygiene practices.
• Rotate runs and houses.
• Keep age and species groups separate.
• Stack, heat, and sterilize poultry manure and do not spread it on poultry pastures.
• Avoid surface water, avoid damp places in houses.
• Leave runs empty for a least 2 months between batches.
• Allow grass to dry after dew or rain before allowing animals to graze.


Management Treatments

 • Remove infected litter and sanitize housing.
 • Plow and reseed infected fields.
 • If there is heavy contamination of earth-floored houses, remove the top 15-cm of soil.
 

Physical Treatments

• Give a 2-grain pill of santonin to each bird followed by 2 tsp. of raw linseed oil.
• For pinworms give a rectal injection of garlic, mustard, peppermint oil (1/2 tsp. oil/1 pint water), or eucalyptus (1/4 tsp./pint water) oil solution.
• Give Shakelee's Basic H surfactant administered as a solution in water.


Nutritional Treatments

• Give a laxative diet: mash of pumpkin seeds and milk after a 12 hour fast, follow with a warm mash of bran, middlings, and milk.
• Give finely chopped onions and garlic.
• Feed finely grated raw carrot, garlic, onions, and parsley.
• Feed mustard; squash or pumpkin seeds; carrot and fennel seeds.
• Add DE and charcoal to feed all preceded by a fast and followed by a laxative period.

Herbal Treatments

• Give a course of garlic for ten days (1 clove/hen/day) and add to the diet bramble leaves, elder leaves, wormwood, wormseed, cotton-lavender, rue, hyssop,
• Give powdered cayenne or senna after a fast.
• If tapeworms are very bad give 1/2 tsp. grated male fern root mixed with bran, castor oil and molasses daily.
• Give garlic (pills, powders, fresh, tinctures),wormwood (Artemisia spp.), wild ginger, snakeroot, goosefoot, conifers (pine, spruce, firs), fennel seeds, or pyrethrum all preceded by a fast and followed by a laxative period.


Homeopathic Treatments

• If worms in the nostrils or ears causes circling give Cina.
• If affected birds lose weight, ruffled feathers, rapid breathing give--Aconite,
Santonite 3x, Tucrum merver.
• Head remedy--China, GNA.