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Um. Oh yeah. I mean. Sure. Of course. I would NEVER have anything like that in my kitchen. NEVER! I mean it! I swear! What are you all looking at?

In your area, it's very widespread.

Also, there are commercial places to run horse fecals for you, I'll be one of them, but I am not up and running quite yet. You can PM me your name and address and I'll send you a kit, but I am still in the developmental stage so I don't have a lot of accuracy data yet. In other words, I am good...

There are good and diverse products for control of fleas, ticks and heartworm, and there are no current recommendations for rotation of these products. There is clear evidence of resistant heartworm in the field, but there aren't any other drugs out there to prevent it, there's only one class...

Those are reproductive structures, probably testes.

I'd love to see what peacocks get. Was that you that posted the probable tapeworm egg photo?

What about heartworm prevention for the dogs?

Oh I hear that. Mostly breeding farms and commercial operations have adopted this newish paradigm, because it's not practical. But it's growing in popularity out of necessity-resistance is a serious problem in grazing animals. Once it gets to the point where dewormers don't do anything for the...

And are worms always bad? Is there any benefit to removing them if they're present? The answer changes based on so many things, including what kind of worms they are, what the chickens are used for, etc etc. There ARE some that I'd treat for automatically. Gapeworms and threadworms, for...

The current equine guidelines indicate float tests and treating only those with >200 EPG. https://aaep.org/sites/default/files/Guidelines/AAEPParasiteControlGuidelines_0.pdf

I did my thesis on this topic, more or less. Seriously! Animals and people have co-evolved right along with their worms. Removing worms has a price to the host. This is called the hygiene hypothesis, that people and animals who live in a super clean, infection-free world don't develop defenses...

Thank you!

I’d love the link to that!

Have you gotten to use it recently, Aart?

SO here's a plug for some articles I wrote earlier this year. Fecal Examination in Backyard Chickens 101-Part 1 Fecal Examination in Backyard Chickens 101-Part II Fecal Examination in Backyard Chickens 101-Part III

That's probably some kind of pollen or other plant artifact. The only tapeworms horses get is Anoplocephala spp, and there's an embryo inside. The most common ones horses get have D-shaped eggs.

McMaster slides are a great way to learn to focus on stuff because the gap between the halves is so huge! A regular slide should be a cakewalk after that. :) Yes, the less expensive centrifuge should work just fine for you.

I have this one too! It works just fine. It's a lot more challenging than my other two because it's so light, so you must balance it perfectly when spinning. That means if you are using float solution in one tube, use float solution in the other. It should be the same density. (if you use water...

My concern is the physical hazard. A heavy rotor spinning at 15000 RPM has a LOT of energy. If it's unbalanced, it can crash and send the rotor right through a concrete wall. Centrifuges can be really dangerous!

What are you doing McMaster tests on? Chicken feces? I would not say I'd recommend that since it dilutes the fecal sample and won't be sensitive enough to detect infections in a lot of cases. You can use a fixed-angle or swinging bucket centrifuge to do fecals. The swinging variety is more...