Natural wormer experiment - if you have a duck or chicken with worms come to this thread

luxbwinDVM said:

The picture posted is just for coccidia (Eimeria)!   Those aren't even the worms!

I have my textbooks; but I do not feel comfortable scanning the pages.  In lieau of that, here are some worms for you to look up.  
I could bore you with the scientific names, but just as a generality, look up these worms and their respective eggs:
Trematodes, nematodes, capillaria, tetrameres, acanthocephala.

If you are looking for a great resource, at the medical level I would highly recommend an older version of Diseases of Poultry or Manual of Poultry Diseases.  These are two resources I use frequently for my work.  I will give the caveat, diseases do not read the book.  Please remember that with all advice you get on this site, including what I am saying.  

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casportpony said:

[COLOR=333333]From the peafowl forum:[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1047614/doing-fecal-floats-at-home/100#post_16744426[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Posted by Zeppley[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]"I've been trying to get some good pictures (without much luck). [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Here is one. I love these - easy to identify! [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Everything below is from fecal smears, some stained.[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]But then there are these UFOs...none as good as KSKingBee's microscopic exploding pea..[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Somebody's cyst...[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]This is a smear from a cloacal swab - poor bird![/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Higher magnification of above[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]another shot - maybe the big one is a Giardia cyst...[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]There were lots of these little green football-like things with no obvious internal structure....[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]They are on a background of rod-type things[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]This is a clearer view of the rod-type things. Yeast perhaps?[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Here's an iodine stain of them[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]This is a gram stain of a cecal poop smear. All the[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]stained things in this photo are much smaller than the rods above.[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]I'm hoping these might be from the probiotics...."[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]-Kathy[/COLOR]

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MrsBrooke said:

Go Team Valbazen!!



MrsB

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