Round worms in eggs!!

what! You bet. My young daughter brought me two poached eggs fresh from some of my free ranging hens once. It was followed by this comment 'Dad, there was something on the eggs when i pulled them out of the boiling water'. Suspicious i asked her to show me. What i saw horrified me!

It looked like someone left a good few strands of 2 minute noodles in the boiling water. I knew instantly they were worms, as these worms i am familiar with from other animals. But i had never even heard if such was possible.

So i jumped online and started learning. Apparently its rare, check out this fella's vid of one he found in his STORE BOUGHT EGGS!! for a visual.



Be aware, they can be a lot smaller than this also., just like a white hair even so crack a heap of eggs your going to cook and examine now and then.

Knowing this was both annoying, off putting to eating eggs as well as scary, but at the same time liberating. The reason it was liberating was because i had had the odd sick grow out bird id hatched, and or working rooster that just lost weight and died. I had no clue from what at the time, no noticeable sign of such, but suddenly i had a lead. Someone has worms and its passing to the flocks.

What i found was that a few of my bird had the worms, and these worms can get into the eggs and grow from there.

My remedy is this, and once again. As a learner and sometimes fella who really has no clue, i am not against the nasty stuff (chemical store bought stuff), but please, try not to use that stuff until youve tried natural remedies. No harm in trying i say, and rather use nature to fix nature so to speak.

I used a few good teaspoons of ground Cayene pepper into the blender, with a few cloves of minced garlic, 250ml of apple cider vinegar with the mother, chilli seeds, diatomaceous earth, ginger, and pumpkin seeds. Blend it, and add it to feed but make sure they eat the whole thing.

The birds dont have the same receptors to the heat of the chilli and stuff we do, but they certainly snort and shake but cant stop eating it lol.

I then watched one of my birds poop out a massive turd the next day in the rain with a big stringy worm in it. The concoction worked! at least for me! But then another bird saw the worm moving and ate the thing! far out!

So i realized, chooks will be bug and worm predators and i love them so, but that i needed to keep this up to flush them out. So i kept it up for a week, feeding them this again and again.

Once again, prevention is better than cure. I would recommend in your farm diary you seek to worm them with such every month. If your birds are running around and having fun naturally, chances are they will get them, so keep onto it and let me know how you go. Hopefully this will help avoid the chemical stuff and help your flock, cheers.