Faecal Testing
Parasites can significantly impact the health and productivity of your animals. Regular faecal analysis of targeted groups within herds allows you to monitor the parasite status of your herd and implement selective dosing only when necessary. By dosing your animals only when necessary you will reduce your risk of resistance to products.
Our faecal analysis includes testing for the following:
Cows: worms eggs, coccidiosis, liver & rumen fluke & lungworm larvae, intestinal Roundworms
Calves: Calf Scour Profile – Rotavirus, Coronavirus, K99, Cryptospiridia
Equine: worms eggs
We partake in faecal egg count proficiency testing schemes in order to maintain quality results you can trust.
You can conveniently post or hand-deliver your samples directly to our laboratory in Bandon.
Equine
Pre-Breeding Screens
We are a Department Approved Laboratory for CEM testing for mares & stallions.
We offer EVA, EIA and CEM + PCR testing as a pre breeding package.
The 2023 Equine Codes of Practice can be found here
Faecal Egg Counts – fight resistance
Do you presume that because you have a strict and regular worming regime that your horses have no issue with internal parasites?
Resistance to chemical dewormers is a threat to your horses health. Monitor your horses worm egg burden by simply preforming regular Faecal Egg Counts. This will allow you as a horse owner to take control of your deworming program safe in the knowledge that you are targeting each horse appropriately. This will allow you to see the effectiveness of your worming regime. You may find that you are unnecessarily worming horses i.e. horses with a low parasitic burden or using products that are resistant.
By monitoring Faecal Egg Counts you can decide when and what to dose for which in the long run will save you money and avoid running into resistance problems which unfortunately can be seen with overuse/unnecessary use of dewormers.