Preventive deworming with ducks?

[WannaBeHillBilly]

https://www.amazon.com/stores/AmScope/AmScope/page/8814F590-27AB-4FCF-9A7E-5394E1BD0751

To get an approval for those might be a challenge…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

You will want a centrifuge too I think.
This vet says centrifugation is the way to go http://www.capcvet.org/expert-articles/why-fecal-centrifugation-is-better/

"I perform an interesting exercise every year in my parasitology class by using a fecal sample from a dog with a hookworm burden typical of what practitioners would see in pet dogs. The students are divided into three groups. One group performs a direct smear, another group mixes 2 g of feces with flotation solution and performs a passive flotation procedure, and the third group uses 2 g of feces and performs the centrifugal flotation procedure.
Each year the results are graphic. Usually only 25% of the students performing the direct smear recover hookworm eggs. About 70% of the students performing the passive flotation procedure report seeing hookworm eggs. And every year, without exception, 100% of the students performing the centrifugal flotation procedure report recovering hookworm eggs. This simple exercise convinces my students of the improved sensitivity of centrifugation. Improved recovery rates using centrifugal flotation procedures are also substantiated by published studies.1-4"

Added to the list!

 

[KsKingBee]

There are three great articles by @Sue Gremlin in the learning center, and @KsKingBee has a thread about doing fecals.

Here is my set-up sans microscope, the centrifuge is not expensive at all, this one was only $70 and cheaper ones are easy to find on Amazon. Fecals are easy to do and takes very little time. AM Scope makes a great product but the camera is pretty much junk, many people have better results by putting their phone or camera to the lens. Be sure to not go cheap on the microscope or you will have to buy twice. Also if you would like to learn more by experienced people you can join our FB page The Floaters Club.

 

[Sue Gremlin]

Here is my set-up sans microscope, the centrifuge is not expensive at all, this one was only $70 and cheaper ones are easy to find on Amazon. Fecals are easy to do and takes very little time. AM Scope makes a great product but the camera is pretty much junk, many people have better results by putting their phone or camera to the lens. Be sure to not go cheap on the microscope or you will have to buy twice. Also if you would like to learn more by experienced people you can join our FB page The Floaters Club.

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This is fantastic!

 

[DiYMama540]

Love this thread! I've actually been considering getting set up to do my own floats. Currently, I just worm all the animals from time to time because my cat gets them regularly from eating rodents, dog sneaks cat poo, dogs poo in the yard, birds are scratching and eating things in the yard....you get the picture Plus, mosquitoes are terrible here in the warmer months!
Anywho, lots of helpful info here...thank you all!!