Parasite Egg identification

There is an adjusting knob on the side under the slide tray. It should lower the tray to allow you to use the 40x or 100x magnification. It should raise & lower the entire tray.

 

What kind of microscope are you using? What kind of slide?

Here are some pics I took a while back of cocci they are small compared to the other more common stomach/intestinal eggs, you definitely need 40x to see them.





Here are some eggs I photographed last week when I was running some fecals. These all came from an almost 3mo doe, she didn't have any big #'s, but I have never seen 4 different ones in the same goat.

This is most common, I have been told this is the Brown stomach worm


This one is possibly Barberpole, or Trichostrongyle


Very rarely do I ever see this one


and again, very rarely do I see this one. I have not looked closely into these last 2 (yet), I've been meaning to ask a friend who is more experienced in identification.

 

I think we need a whole separate fecal forum so we can all learn! This is good stuff

 

The 3rd one, with pots of room inside is a bankrupt worm. We have those sometimes.

 

It's very interesting that's for sure! My 13yo daughter will be learning to do fecals, I'm going to teach her next time, which will probably be this weekend.
Did you see my post from last year that shows larvae moving in the eggs? THAT was freaky! I left a sample in the fridge for 2 days by accident in a sealed container. So when I pulled it out to do it, I got a crazy surprise lol If you haven't seen it I'll look for that post and share the link.

Thanks! I had planned to compare to the charts last night and see if I could get proper ID or message a friend and totally spaced it. I see that one very randomly. I treated with Quest Plus about 2 weeks ago, and this was after that, treated with Equimax, so I am going to run another fecal 7 days after deworming and see if the Equimax (Ivermectin/Praziquantel) did anything if not, I know it's not as effective, if I see less, then I know Ivermectin is still useful.

 

Dewormers are hard to figure out. Here where we are in SETX, it is wet and humid so worm heaven. We use a rotation of dewormers, as needed for what the fecals so. We also use Pyrantel or Quest when we need to pack a punch to knock a worm load down. We will use Cydectin, Valbazen, depending on what the fecals show and we use Long Range every 4 months across the board. We also copper bolus every 6 months and use pumpkin seeds. So far, this regiment has served us well.

 

This looks like threadneck worm.

 

Well, the air bubbles are small and they are usually much larger than worm eggs so I’d say a pretty small magnification power. 10x maybe? Not sure.

 

I’m quite concerned with the amount of lungworms I’m seeing. Have you treated for them?

 

I would say yes, that would give me enough cause to treat for them.

 

To me, those do not look like Lungworms. Just organic material or matter.