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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: holz306 on March 25, 2013, 01:15:12 pm

Title: Worm count labs?
Post by: holz306 on March 25, 2013, 01:15:12 pm

Anyone know where i can go to get a worm count done?  easy to find horsey ones online but struggling to find one for sheep/

Title: Re: Worm count labs?
Post by: Bionic on March 25, 2013, 01:24:55 pm

Try your vets

Title: Re: Worm count labs?
Post by: bloomer on March 25, 2013, 01:30:52 pm

https://www.suppliesforsmallholders.co.uk/worm-count-kit-p-2242.html (https://www.suppliesforsmallholders.co.uk/worm-count-kit-p-2242.html)


follow the link above


Supplies for Smallholding sponsor the site, i haven't used them but i don't have a smallholding yet!!!


Others i know speak very highly of them!!!

Title: Re: Worm count labs?
Post by: fsmnutter on March 25, 2013, 02:32:28 pm

Quote from: Bionic on March 25, 2013, 01:24:55 pm

Try your vets

Seconded.
As a vet, we are more than happy to take a poo sample, send it off to the lab, and then give you advice based on the results. Saves you wondering what to do with the results when you get them, and probably not far off the price of home testing kits, but with the veterinary advice gratis.
Happy poo collecting!
Suzanne

Title: Re: Worm count labs?
Post by: supplies for smallholders on March 25, 2013, 08:25:19 pm

Regardless of where you get it done, the important thing is to get it done - rather than "Blanket" worming.

And make sure if you use a vet that they actually send the sample off to a Lab rather than just look at the sample under a scope - as doing a proper EPG is quite an involved process using a centrifuge - and a different suspension solution when looking for fluke eggs.