Keep trying - it really is worth it. I learned about microscopes etc when working as a VN in a vet surgery, from 1991 onwards - bloods, urine, FEC - I was given a microscope and a MacMaster slide from a vets that moved to sending them away to labs - and since then I have been checking FEC for my horses, and now sheep, so that I can check prior, and after, worming to see effects, and also if I need to do additional worming. I am by no means an expert, but you don't always need to name them, or identify age, to know there is stuff there that needs dealing with, and seeing eggs of one type before you worm, and eggs of the same type a few weeks later, will suggest your regime isn't working - so you can know that either you are not using the right wormer, or the right dose. Even if you don't know which, you know it isn't working. Once you have seen a load of air bubbles, then a load of egg cells, you soon realise they are quite different. Like recognising one sheep from another - they all look like sheep to start with.
