Services – Parascope

Testing

Sheep and Cattle Testing

FEC
Faecal Egg Counts to find out worm burden levels. We recommend a bulk test for this (25-30 sheep, 10-15 cattle) to give a better indication on a mob’s average.

FECRT
Faecal Egg Count Reduction Test is a FEC pre-drenching followed by a second FEC 14 days post-drenching to ascertain how effective the drench has been. Once again, using bulk samples

Drench Check
A bulk FEC is carried out pre-drench, then 10-15 individual animals are tested in the second test. This alleviates the potential of any animals that may have been missed being drenched distorting a bulk test result.

Drench Efficiency Test
In this test individual actives and combinations are used to get a more informative picture of what is occurring on a property. These are carried out using the same format used in the Drench Check. Larval Cultures are also done to identify the worm species involved and the effective the actives have been on them.

Larval Cultures
Eggs are hatched, and the worm species are identified and what percentage each of these makes up of the sample.

Advice

Integrated Parasite Management Plans (IPMP)
Farm specific plans to manage parasites on a property. These are designed to minimise the risk of drench resistance, or overcome it, while formulating plans and actions to help minimise costs and increasing returns to maximise profits.

General advice
all of our result reports contain general advice and information relating to the findings.

We welcome clients to contact us to discuss issues relating to their property.