Worm?

Baz · Post by **Baz** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:48 am

Hi i was changing Billy's watertoday when i noticed a dark swirly thing in it...i thought it might be a tape worm can IRN's get tape worms? and if so how can u get rid of them? thanks

snowsand · Post by **snowsand** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:25 am

sounds like what poop looks like in the water cup...I could be wrong. I am unsure about birds and worms.

julie · Post by **julie** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:44 pm

Donna · Post by **Donna** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:26 pm

Do not try to treat worms with over the counter wormers. Have a vet test for worms first then and only then worm the bird.

It just sounds like a turd floating in the water.

Donna

julie · Post by **julie** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:33 pm

skibum · Post by **skibum** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:53 am

it actually moves by itself?!?
...oooh yuck!!!!

heh heh.

If it does it is a worm, if not, then a poo. The poo part of poos looks like a green-brown wormy-thing (depending on what has been eaten recently) and the wees part is usually white - although in babies seems to be clearish and quite viscous...

Poochletty · Post by **Poochletty** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:13 pm

My daughter's starling had a round worm once. We took a picture of it and emailed it to the local vet school at the college near us. They easily identified it and recommended medicine for us.

Melika · Post by **Melika** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:48 pm

And worms are white, not brown. ^_^

Tapeworms often break off in segments, so they'll be little white moving things. Roundworms are like skinny earthworms (or angel hair pasta), but again they are white.

Edit: :p whitish

Poochletty · Post by **Poochletty** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:00 pm

If it helps... here are the pictures of the worm we had that the vet said was a round worm. Glad I saved them. It did indeed move and was very much like angel hair pasta. GAG!