Worm eggs

neilo · May 29, 2020

Tim W said:
Update on FEC @neilo
Today the Charollais are 3600 epg and the Exlana 390 epg
Still no nemo
Better reduce the burden by drenching the Charollais ewes

Are you sure you’ve got your maths right??

Surely at 3600epg they would be dropping like flies?
Quite a staggering difference to be fair.

ISCO · May 29, 2020

Did our late March lambs on Wednesday. 8oo epg worm eggs 1 nemo egg.
We will be working,vaccinating and clicking this Sunday.

Tim W · May 29, 2020

neilo said:
Are you sure you’ve got your maths right??

Surely at 3600epg they would be dropping like flies?
Quite a staggering difference to be fair.

They look ok
I double checked the count (again)
We will see what happens once I have treated the Charollais ewes....all counts should go down
FEC for all farms is rising slowly which I attribute to the dry weather
Good conditions for Barbers Pole Worm

neilo · May 29, 2020

Tim W said:
They look ok
I double checked the count (again)
We will see what happens once I have treated the Charollais ewes....all counts should go down
FEC for all farms is rising slowly which I attribute to the dry weather
Good conditions for Barbers Pole Worm

Maybe your Charollais have high resilience, rather than resistance?

Tim W · May 29, 2020

neilo said:
Maybe your Charollais have high resilience, rather than resistance?

Who knows?
To investigate that i will have to track growth against FEC?

Skintagain · May 29, 2020

neilo said:
Maybe your Charollais have high resilience, rather than resistance?

They are eating 10x as much grass as the others so pick up ten fold the worms..................!!

Tim W · May 30, 2020

Skintagain said:
They are eating 10x as much grass as the others so pick up ten fold the worms..................!!

Eat 10 x as much grass & produce 1/3 as much milk!

polk_farmer · May 30, 2020

What is the diffence between a barber pole egg and a strongyle egg under the microscope. Seen a barber pole worm doing egg counts just now, but not sure what the eggs look like?

ShooTa · Jun 14, 2020

i agree that spotting eggs based on size is difficult due to not being able to measure them when your starting out - images with the lines of the mcmaster slides would be ideal but ive yet to find some.

beardface · Jun 15, 2020

Found 500 EPG of these in a lamb sample. Can't quite tell if there capillaria or strongyles on Google images. Lbs look well regardless.

Jmorrow · Aug 8, 2020

I recently got a worm count done with my local vets they reported 18,000 epg strongles mainly , is this even possible the highest we ever had is 1800 and those lambs were losing significant weight these lambs are doing 0.1 kg dlg which is poor but considering there worm burden it isnt too bad.

Poorbuthappy · Aug 8, 2020

polk_farmer said:
What is the diffence between a barber pole egg and a strongyle egg under the microscope. Seen a barber pole worm doing egg counts just now, but not sure what the eggs look like?

Old post I know but you can't differentiate between eggs. They need culturing to tell them apart

Poorbuthappy · Aug 8, 2020

Jmorrow said:
I recently got a worm count done with my local vets they reported 18,000 epg strongles mainly , is this even possible the highest we ever had is 1800 and those lambs were losing significant weight these lambs are doing 0.1 kg dlg which is poor but considering there worm burden it isnt too bad.

Possible yes. Would expect it to be haemonchus at those levels, and would expect losses to be experienced sooner or later

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