Dung Sampling

This mornings job was to get dung samples from 3 mobs of sheep. We dung sample to find out if the sheep are carrying worms which can detract from their overall healthiness. So just like you worm your dogs, we worm the sheep! To get an accurate figure on the amount of worm eggs per sheep we have to get 20 samples of sheep pooh from the mob. They are then mushed up and looked at through a microscope (you have to be trained for this part). Depending on the time of year and what kind of feed the sheep are on we can then determine if we should be drenching them with an oral drench.