I think roundworms and tape segments are the only worms that would be visible if they happened to poop one out, but cecal and capillary worms, I think those are way to small unless you're actually picking the poop up and looking for them, even then I think they are easy to miss.
-Kathy
I thought I should add that I will *SCREAM* if one more person on BYC says something like "my animals don't have worms because I don't see them in their poop".
-Kathy
No offense, but when it comes time to do the worm the horses we just unpack 14 tubes of ivermectin, ivermectin w/praziquantil or Safeguard and de-worm them, period. Equine surgery is way too expensive for us to risk de-worming any other way. But hey, if you have routine fecals done on your...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_poisoning
Toxicology[edit]
The LD50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 0.5-1.0 mg/kg can be a lethal dosage for adult humans, and 0.1 mg/kg for children.[9][14] Nicotine therefore has a high toxicity in comparison to many other alkaloids...
http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/toxicology/qt/nicotine-toxicity.htm
What is the toxic dose?
The toxic dose for nicotine in pets is 1/2-1 mg per pound of pet body weight, while the lethal dose is 4 mg per pound of pet body weight.1 The type of nicotine (cigarette butt, nicotine gum, etc.) and the...
There's not one properly conducted/documented study there, so until someone shows that to me, tobacco will remain on my "Top Ten Ways to Kill a Bird List".
-Kathy
Nice try, but that is not what I call a properly documented study. This one is a properly documented study on the efficacy of ivermectin as a wormer in poultry:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2816174
Ivermectin as a bird anthelmintic--trials with naturally infected domestic fowl.
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