It looks like something from an 80's video game! Okay, I'll look in the book when I get back in town. -KathySunday a correct dose and Monday half dose. The slide today shows half as many eggs and this thing, what ever it is...Kathy, do me a favor and look on page 159 of the reference manual and tell me if you think I am id'ing Cecal and Roundworm eggs wrong.
Did you happen to measure these? If these coccidia were from a chicken, the worm egg might be too big to be Heterakis.It is taking some time, but I think I am getting it. I performed another exam on the yearling pen two days after dosing with Safeguard. The first FF showed 35 Cecal eggs, this one had only 14 and one cocci as seen in the bottom right corner. I was lucky to get both in the same pic as the cocci was swimming away.
I checked another couple other parasitology books...No, The first pic is 100x and the second is 400x, I haven't figured out how to use the grid in the software yet. The smaller one is defenately a cocci, the larger one has me confused, it looks like a Heterakis, Cecal egg in the book, yet it has to be an Ascaridia, Roundworm. Here is the reference book pics.
I checked another couple other parasitology books...
"Heterakis eggs closely resemble eggs of Ascaridia, but are smaller, with parallel sides." p.79 in
Sloss, M.W., R.L. Kemp and A.M. Zajac. 1994. Veterinary Clinical Parasitology.
Sixth edition. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa. 198 pp.
The images you showed (from Foreyt Reference Manual) show this. The egg in your photo has curved sides, so I would think Ascaridia.
Here are photos from Veterinary Clinical Parasitology: Ascaridia (L) Heterakis (R).
Click on the photo for a larger version.
