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Post by ceej on May 10, 2009 18:53:02 GMT
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Post by ceej on May 10, 2009 18:55:31 GMT
god I would feel awful if they were worms...the vet checked my schedule though and thought it was spot on...
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Post by scattymare on May 10, 2009 19:12:20 GMT
Goodness  Not got a clue what it is. Looks like an awful lot of worms to be that though - I'd have thought (though never seen it so might be wrong) that you'd only see one or two in droppings if a horse had them. PMSL imagining your OH's face when you scooped it up!! |
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Post by ceej on May 10, 2009 19:18:03 GMT
the size of the lump is about a tablesthingy full - looks like more in the pics...can find any worms that look like this though...its a stumper!
PS I did use a stick!
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Post by racaille on May 10, 2009 23:45:28 GMT
Eeeeeuuuuuuuww!!!
But I don't think its worms (although I am famously blind). TBH I'd show it to a vet .....
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Post by Jen on May 11, 2009 17:53:07 GMT
bubbs the shetland had something in her poo one day that looked very like that and sam (ex vet nurse) thought it was worms.
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Post by haffyfan on May 11, 2009 18:00:11 GMT
Eeeeeuuuuuuuww!!! But I don't think its worms (although I am famously blind). TBH I'd show it to a vet ..... Double eeeeuuuuuuuuu, I'd second showing the pics to a vet but it does remind me a little of those pictures you see when they have extracted worms from horse in really severe cases etc |
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Post by rebanna on May 11, 2009 19:57:53 GMT
look's like worm's get a worm egg count, and a blood test as some dont show up on a egg count. Has he been with horses that havent been wormed regually? he might have picked up a worms nest!
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Post by maximum on May 11, 2009 20:10:18 GMT
ugh!!! it looks more like chewed up string! could he have eaten sumthing like that?
gross whatever it is but I aint never seen worms like that and it seems unlikely he would excrete them even if you were a few weeks out- they normally have to have a large burden before you can see it in the poo
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Post by brigadier on May 12, 2009 16:01:40 GMT
Whatever it is its got to be better out than in! It looks wormy to me, as though he's passed a load of dead ones after a mass killing spree but that could be the photo as it also looks like thick mucus. Had you wormed recently?
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Post by ceej on May 12, 2009 19:03:15 GMT
They are due next worming now, but the reason I dont really think its worms is that there are no separate strands, its all interlinked, like that fake cobweb stuff you can get...
My friend thinks it could be mucus gone backwards (and this would link up well with the fact they were in 20 hours a day for week last week whilst the field was sprayed and here was mucus outside his door from coughs from hay...)
It wobbles like mucus!!! Its difficult really as it looks different in real life to on the photo...harry doesnt look particularly wormy either does he?!
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Post by fimacg on May 13, 2009 13:07:13 GMT
yuck! never seen anything like it, perhaps show your vet to be on the safe side
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Post by abi on May 15, 2009 18:35:36 GMT
eugh thats a mystery! not a clue, but curious to know- is it in all poops or just that one? x
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Post by ceej on May 28, 2009 7:21:03 GMT
Just in that one - absolutely nothing since....
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Not got a clue what it is. Looks like an awful lot of worms to be that though - I'd have thought (though never seen it so might be wrong) that you'd only see one or two in droppings if a horse had them. 
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