Micrsocope Course Notes and Laminated Pictures

  • Are you getting the best from your microscope?

  • Introduction
  • These notes are part of a one day microscope course designed to introduce and help the pigeon fancier get the best from their microscope.
  • This is a very practical course. I hope that these notes will help you get started.
  • Aims

  • To enable you to set up and care for your microscope
  • To enable you to understand what you are looking at
  • To gain an insight into distinguishing living cells from artefacts
  • To review the life cycles of parasites and their control
  • To familiarise you with useful techniques for your microscope
  • To enable the correct recognition of canker organisms, coccidial oocysts, and worm eggs or segments

  • Chapter 1
  • Your microscope
  • Microscope components
  • Using your microscope
  • Care of your microscope
  • Causes of poor image quality

  • Chapter 2
  • Diseases that can be monitored with your microscope
  • How disease is spread
  • Life cycles
  • Canker, Coccidia, Roundworms, Hairworms, Tapeworms, Red mite,
  • Techniques
  • Throat swabs
  • Action
  • Faeces examination
  • Results scoring
  • Droppings Examination Interpretation
  • Counts per gramme faeces from the lab
  • Routine Screen
  • Floatation Solution
  • Colour figures
  • Laminates
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