Sadly our flock was infected with worms recently. At first we took fresh stool samples and looked at those under a microscope and wormed the flock accordingly. You can't eat their eggs for ten days after this and then you have to worm them again after those ten days, and you shouldn't eat their eggs these ten days, too. It seems like a waste of eggs but the worming stuff is basically poison and it cane be in their eggs.
We use Valbazan and at first the flock was fine but half a year later we have them again. Beatrice stopped laying eggs a long time ago but she recently began molting and we thought she had cancer and was going to die, yet she is still here. We assumed all her behavior was caused by molting when she did not pass. Then we noticed she had worms, so we wormed her, and then Opal got wormed, and then Penny and the others are next. We don't worm them all at once because that would be twenty days without eggs at all. So far it seems to solve the problem but worms aren't something that goes away completely. Wild birds can bring them and they can live in the soil itself.
