Lungworm in sheep - faecal samples needed!

[georgiaparker]

If your sheep have not been wormed recently and have signs of a dry unproductive cough then we require your samples! I work for a veterinary research company and we are trying to locate the lungworm Dictyocaulus filaria in sheep. We can collect this from faeces but it is proving hard even finding it in faeces.

If you send us a sample, we will give you the lungworm results and perform a faecal egg count, free of charge. If you think you have a sample for us, please contact me at [email protected].

Thanks in advance!

 

[Tim W]

Probably lower incidence at the moment?
Can you wait until it's a bit warmer---might be more about?

 

[neilo]

If your sheep have not been wormed recently and have signs of a dry unproductive cough then we require your samples! I work for a veterinary research company and we are trying to locate the lungworm Dictyocaulus filaria in sheep. We can collect this from faeces but it is proving hard even finding it in faeces.

If you send us a sample, we will give you the lungworm results and perform a faecal egg count, free of charge. If you think you have a sample for us, please contact me at [email protected].

Thanks in advance!

I was led to believe that the only way you find lungworms eggs in a FEC is if they happened to have swallowed an egg while they were coughing one up.

Do lungworms not multiply, and produce eggs, in the lungs, rather than the intestines, then cough the eggs onto pasture?

Is that not correct?

 

[georgiaparker]

We are looking for live lungworms in the faeces. This is urgent - we cannot not wait until peak infection times. Please anyone contact me if you have samples!