[GrannieAnnie]

Someone on the River Cottage site is asking if the dead worm like things he is finding in his chook po is actually undigested earthworms, but I think I read on her a couple of weeks ago that there is a nasty parasitic worm that looks like an earthworm.  Can anyone remember what it was called please???

[Aunt Sally]

Can's answer that Grannie.  Not enough information.  How big, what colour one or many.

I would have thought that ingested worms would be digested .  Probably an Ascaris but impossible to say for sure.  I would recommend worming just in case  :!:

[Foxy]

grannieannie, could they be the large roundworm?? If flattened and segmented could be tapeworm.
or if they are red could be the dreaded gapeworm??

here is a pic of roundworm, they are worm like and common in free range poultry.

Hope this helps! They are horrible!!!!  :shock: Good news flubenvet sorts them all out....

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/128/roundworm-large-ascaridia

[GrannieAnnie]

Thanks Auntie and Foxy, it was gapeworm I was thinking of foxy, didn't someone say they look very like earthworms?

[Selkie]

Foxy, big thanks for putting the photos on a link rather than on the page here!!

(we've had worms in the past with our dog and cats, and the sight of them makes me feel so ill - and I'm not usually that squeamish)

[Foxy]

photo of gapeworm -kindly in a link!! (dont want to upset Rosemary!! :shock: )
They are nasty and can be fatal in smaller birds like bantams. Symptoms are gaspng, yawning and poor condition. They typically look small, red and threadlike.
http://www.janssenpharmaceutica.be/jah/pages/portraits/images/140%20pix/poultry3-2_k.jpg

[Fat Hen]

Foxy, big thanks for putting the photos on a link rather than on the page here!!

(we've had worms in the past with our dog and cats, and the sight of them makes me feel so ill - and I'm not usually that squeamish)

Eeh!  and you a zoologist too :!: