Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:48 am**

Saw some thin wriggling little worms in a cecal

yesterday. Disgusting thread like and maybe 1/4 inch long if that. Quite a few of them. I've read that they can be difficult to get rid of. Suggestions on product and treatment?

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2016 3:27 pm**

There may be others, but Safegard (fenbendazole) is the only product that I personally know will kill cecal worms. Since they live in hidden, blind pouches in the intestines, you need something systemic to even begin to touch them.

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2016 4:10 pm**

windwalkingwolf wrote:QR_BBPOST There may be others, but Safegard (fenbendazole) is the only product that I personally know will kill cecal worms. Since they live in hidden, blind pouches in the intestines, you need something systemic to even begin to touch them.

Thanks for the reply. Is that the paste for horses? If so I read a pea size amount for LF. Do you treat twice and if so how many days in between? At least it won't break my heart to toss my one egg I'm getting per day right now lol.

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2016 4:26 pm**

yeah, the stuff for horses (or sheep). i just put a dab on a small piece of bread and they gobble it down with the bread.

Posted: **Tue Nov 08, 2016 6:06 pm**

Thanks for the tip! Just ran out and grabbed some safegard so that will be their little treat in the morning.

Posted: **Wed Nov 09, 2016 2:23 pm**

A single treatment will take care of them. Cecal worms are generally pretty harmless unless you have turkeys. One good thing about fenbendazole is that there is zero egg withdrawal, at least in the U.S....and the E.U. and they're pretty strict about such things.

Posted: **Wed Nov 09, 2016 2:45 pm**

windwalkingwolf wrote:QR_BBPOST A single treatment will take care of them. Cecal worms are generally pretty harmless unless you have turkeys. One good thing about fenbendazole is that there is zero egg withdrawal, at least in the U.S....and the E.U. and they're pretty strict about such things.

Thanks for the info! I will save my one egg a day then lol

Posted: **Wed Nov 09, 2016 9:28 pm**

Scratch that, that was old information. Under the U.S. FDA's new, stricter guidelines, recommended egg withdrawal time for safeguard is now 17 days. Sorry about that. If you don't want to eat the eggs, you can always scramble them and feed them back to your chickens. They will love you for it LOL

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2016 8:41 am**

I think I'll just risk it and be worm free

Thx again