Does anybody want to share their knowledge about parasites? This is the first time I've done fecals and found anything much. I'm in northeastern MN, where all the flooding just happened, and it's been a wet spring anyway. I'm really struggling to keep things under control here. My does were dewormed about 10 days before kidding, and again just after, with Ivermectin. That was at the end of April and the beginning of May. I dewormed two of them again about a month ago with morantel tartrate pellets because the Ivomec didn't seem to work well. We were still having "dog poop" like poops. Well, we are having trouble again already. This is what I saw yesterday. I hope the pictures turned out well enough for you to see. I held my camera up to the eyepiece to get these. It sort of worked! :)
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Thanks Patty for the information. I am going to look back into getting one. Hope you figured out your clumpy poop problem! LOL
Yes, Deborah, I guess it does make me feel better. There were probably about 40 or 50 eggs on the whole slide. The most I've had on a slide in the past is probably 3, so this seemed like a lot to me.
I'm not the greatest at identifying worms, but if it makes you feel any better, there really are not a lot of eggs on that slide. I've seen as many as 40 eggs in a single view like that!
Thank you, Jennifer! I had this saved on my other computer, but I hadn't found it again. It is helpful.
Oh, I forgot to say that you need a microscope with 400x magnification. Mine has 40x, 100x and 400x.
Janel Rickey said:
This is really neat. Thanks for sharing. Can you identify what kind of worms you are having in your goats. I bought a microscope, but it wasn't strong enough to show anything. How high of a magnification did you have to do to see anything? I am wanting to purchase another one, but not sure what I should buy. Thanks for sharing...
LOL! I guess I didn't make it clear that I'm NOT finding it an easy thing to identify that I'm seeing. I'd love input from those who might know. I'm pretty sure I can see some cocci, which are much smaller than most other things, and yellow to greenish in color, and some are brown? I think maybe the second to last photo above may be one? I made it much larger so it would be easier to see.
I'm thinking the other, larger things I'm seeing are maybe thread worms? I'm really not very sure of my ability to identify what I'm seeing though. They never seem to look exactly like what I'm seeing in the photos in my books.
Here's a likn to a blog post I wrote about the microscope I got. It was around $80 (I think) on Amazon. On further use, the only thing I don't love about it is there's no fine focus knob. It's a bit hard to get a nice sharp image without that, but it works.
I use supplies I purchase from http://www.shopmedvet.com/ online. It's very simple this way. I use something called the Fecal Ova Float kit and Feca Med solution. It's very simple to prepare the sample this way, not overly expensive, and if you wash and reuse the pieces, will last many years. All you need is the microscope, slides and slide covers and the above mentioned two items. I didn't know about these products, and was following the directions on Fiasco Farms website before. Thanks to the breeder I got my goats from (who is also a vet tech), I'm having a much easier time! :)
Janel Rickey said:
This is really neat. Thanks for sharing. Can you identify what kind of worms you are having in your goats. I bought a microscope, but it wasn't strong enough to show anything. How high of a magnification did you have to do to see anything? I am wanting to purchase another one, but not sure what I should buy. Thanks for sharing...