Author Topic: Worm count labs?  (Read 2948 times)

holz306

  • Joined Jan 2012
Worm count labs?
« 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/

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Worm count labs?
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2013, 01:24:55 pm »
Try your vets
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Worm count labs?
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2013, 01:30:52 pm »
https://www.suppliesforsmallholders.co.uk/worm-count-kit-p-2242.html


follow the link above


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fsmnutter

  • Joined Oct 2012
  • Fettercairn, Aberdeenshire
Re: Worm count labs?
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2013, 02:32:28 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

Re: Worm count labs?
« Reply #4 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.
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