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Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: Walfre on December 07, 2008, 12:35

Title: parasites
Post by: Walfre on December 07, 2008, 12:35

Can any of you chicken keepers help please. Cooked a chicken from our local market for our dogs. Peeled the skin from the breast & beneath the skin was a curled up worm, this was embedded at one end deep in the ckicken breast muscle. We ditched the chicken but would like to know what it was. Is it something we should tell the seller about,
thanks for any ideas

Title: parasites
Post by: Bodger on December 07, 2008, 12:39

I've  genuinely never heard of anything like that before Chris. :shock:

Title: parasites
Post by: Kate and her Ducks on December 07, 2008, 12:42

:shock:  :shock:  :shock:

Well I can't help on what it was but it sounds horrible!
I certainly think you should tell the supplier not in the least as you should have a refund. Obviously easier to go about if you still have the carcass and/or worm or a pic.

Title: parasites
Post by: Aunt Sally on December 07, 2008, 18:10

My OH is a human and veterinary parasitologist but without a picture he's got no idea.

He did say though that once it's cooked it's just another bit of protein and the dogs would have loved it (and the chicken too  :wink: )

If you can recover it from the bin and send it to me I force him to ID it  :lol:

Title: parasites
Post by: Walfre on December 09, 2008, 14:45

thanks for the offer, would have been useful but remains already gone. Think it must have been an imported chicken as I can't find anything on the web re worms in muscle in chicken. I will NEVER buy chicken from the market again.

Title: parasites
Post by: Bodger on December 09, 2008, 14:49

I think you can get tape worm cysts in the flesh of pork, thats why this is one meat that you should always ensure is cooked well.

Title: parasites
Post by: Evansent on December 09, 2008, 17:56

Aunt Sally,

what a fascinating job your OH has!!!

I bet he has seen some trully horrible things!!!

As he is an expert, may I ask.. if the worms that chickens get can be passed on to humans?

C X

Title: parasites
Post by: Aunt Sally on December 09, 2008, 17:59

Truely (http://bestsmileys.com/scared/5.gif)

I'll ask him but I'm fairly sure the answer is NO.