This bird has been in islotation for weeks now, and beside doing a few different birds droppings this bird so far is the only one with this pattern in his dropping and crop wash,, as I don't have my book I really don't kow if it means anything.

The pattern looks like a fern .

I took the images through my camera so sorry they are not good but at least they worked, I had the camera above the eye piece and click . I don't have a camera for the microscope yet.

 

Does any one with microscope experience ever see this or is it nothing. Splat

 

Oops forgot to put the images on

Edited January 18, 201015 yr by splat

How are you processing these slides? Are you putting the neat droppings on a slide? Your best bet would be to mix the droppings into a few drops of saline, then add a drop to the glass slide and then coverslip it. Then you can exmine it as a wet mount. I'd guess that the ferning pattern is simply the way the specimen has dried on the slide. Also, your light is ery low...turn it up and you'll see much more Also, what magnification are you using?

wow thats great splat

 

it looked saline d to me but im no mic scope expurt i dont even have one as yet working on it though

 

please continue to post others one normal and ones diffrent

it will be great referance specially when you can add to pics what they are

eg healthy

or sample with eg e coli bug ext ext

i cant help you mate sorry but

i think this will end up a grate post to learn from

look forward to seeing more poo

How are you processing these slides? Are you putting the neat droppings on a slide? Your best bet would be to mix the droppings into a few drops of saline, then add a drop to the glass slide and then coverslip it. Then you can exmine it as a wet mount. I'd guess that the ferning pattern is simply the way the specimen has dried on the slide. Also, your light is ery low...turn it up and you'll see much more Also, what magnification are you using?

 

Thankyou defieldsfamily for your tip I am kinda doing that but quite the same as you discribe so I will try the next, I did the same bird again to today and that pattern is not their so I guess you are right.

The lighting is bad only because I took a photo with my dig camera above the eye piece as I don't have a microscope camera yet, but there is one coming soon.

 

 

Thanks GB it is interesting it will be great when I get my microscope camera but it all cost money.

Hmmm...I take all my pictures down the microscope with a digital...what type of microscope do you have?

I have a 40x1600x LAB Clinic Vet Trinocular Compound. But my camera is a Nikon D70 SLR. The lense is 58mm, my eye piece for microscope is 23mm.

Hi Splat,

 

I've been reading up on diseases and poops so I can get a better understanding of potential problems with birds and I came across Dr Marshall's site with pictures of different diseases under the microscope.

 

Thought it might be useful for your studies with your microscope :emoticon112:

 

 

 

 

http://www.birdhealth.com.au/about/microscope.html

Edited January 22, 201015 yr by Amy S

Thankyou Amy that is a great help :emoticon112: