Worms Purchase Your Bird Wormer Here
Worms in our pet birds, worms in Chickens .
How does the worm infection start (See picture 1)
Predisposing causes to worms seen at Melbourne Bird Vet.
Picture 1 : Typical round worms in a parrot in hospital seen at Bird Vet Melbourne. The patient ended up recovering fully.
Firstly from faecal (Poo) - oral (mouth) contamination is the most common cause or worm infections in parrots. I.e. the birds eats its own poo when eating seeds of food of the floor! This happens if seeds or food fall onto the droppings, or food comes into contact with the droppings. This food contamination is also common unhygienic. Poo or droppings that build up and collect and then contaminate the feet and get spread around the cage.
Secondly from eating insects and other arthropods that have worm eggs in side them. This is very common in insect eating birds. Chickens often get worms from eating insects and other arthropods .
Thirdly some birds like foraging and eating off the ground like the polytelis species, the princess parrot. Ground foraging birds are much more likely to get worms
Fourthly the surface of the cage floor plays a role. Budgies kept in cages with grit on the floor of the cage are about 1000X more likely to have worms, than those that do not have grit as a cage floor surface .
The types of worms we see at our Melbourne Avian facility
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Round worms in birds - the most common general group of bird worms and chicken worms we see at the bird vet.
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Capillaria - more resistant and more common in chickens ( Melbourne Chicken vet)
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Tape worms
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Gape worm - occasionally in wild corvids.
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Burrowing worms .
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Maggots - of fly larval worms affecting contaminated wounds unusably chickens after fox attacks.
Medically we treat and kill the worms affecting our patients . (See Picture 2, At Poultry Vet Melbourne)
Picture 2 : Chicken worms after a chicken wormer was used at the local chicken Vet
Treatments of worms at Bird Vet Melbourne to purchase click on PET-SHOP.AU
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Bird-wormer - a product we stock that is both effective and safe for egg laying birds like chickens. One can still eat the eggs while the hen is being treated. The product contains Levamisole eg Levam Hen Wormer 125 ml
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Moxivet. A macrocytic -lactone wormer containing Moxidectin - NOT ideal for egg laying birds - also treats certain Mites and lice
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A combination product - levamisole + moxidectin - that does worms and tape worms.
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Moxivet plus also covers tape worm.
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Fenbendazole - one of the better wormers for those resistant worms