Goat Fecal Float DIY

[tmas]

Awesome post!! I'm guessing a microscope is in my future. What equipment is needed for running these test?

A 25ml test tube, I picked one up off ebay for $4, and i bought a little $2 strainer to strain the larger debris out of the sample. You'll need some slides and slide covers as well...and some "float solution", I just used epsom salt from the dollar store. There is some great deals on Microscopes on Ebay, you don't need a fancy one just one that has around 4x-40x objectives. Mine has 4,10,20,40, I didn't really use the 4 or 20 much I mostly searched with 10x and zoomed with 40x.

Type in "goat fecal float" on google and there is a few pages that have a step-by-step guide to doing it. It's really pretty interesting.