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Strawberry74
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Thank you!When treating for tapeworms, you can treat all of them or only the ones that have the tapeworm segments. Tapeworms have an intermediate host—worms, flies, beetles, snails and slugs, ants, termites, or grasshoppers. Once the chicken consumes the host, they become infected with tapeworms if the host has eaten the eggs. If one of those is common around your chicken lot, you may want to remove them so that the chicken does not become reinfected later. Each tapeworm segment seen in the poop contains many tapeworm eggs. Those segments or proglottids are just part of the larger tapeworm.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0653/1989/5292/files/tapeworm-in-poultry-300x197.jpg?v=1704208303
Still not the answer I want, LOL!
I really have no way of knowing who made that deposit out of my 24 chickens in that particular area. In addition to their very large enclosure, they do spend a majority of the day free ranging so all of those creatures listed that are carriers of said nasty tapeworms they are inevitably going to find and consider it a delicious snack
