What microscope for fecals?

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That should be sufficient. I bought one for my grand daughter, now I use it and she "borrows" it. LOL If you don't have the McMaster slides, I bought a kit from Amazon, here's a link.

I was going to throw it away last year but decided to keep it.
 

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I don't see anywhere to put the slides. The McMaster slides have 2 blue line grids on them, you focus on the lines for a clear image, then you can see the worm eggs.

so you need to have light up from under the slide? Yes, his funeral was today. It was more of a blessing really. He was 88 but spent the last four years in a nursing home after having a stroke. He has not known anyone for the last 2 years. He just laid there and slept. He had to eat pureed food which he didn't eat much of anyway. He weighed only 62 lbs.
 

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I haven't gotten my slide jet, but I wanted to try my microscope. I put a drop of feces/solution on a blank slide and I can't make out a darn thing.
 

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With the McMaster slide you focus on the blue lines ant then you can see the worm eggs.
 

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You need a 10x magnification mic. This is what I have and it works great: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B009JROROU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I use little butter containers to collect the fecals (free), a tea strainer ($1.50 at Walmart), and old spoon (free), a shot glass to strain the mixed fecals into ($1 at Walmart), a medicine dropper ($1.50 at Walgreens) to load the slide with and an Eggzamin McMaster slide ($18 on line, free shipping). It works great and I run fecals on my herd often. I use the sugar solution instead of a salt one because I worry about corrosion on my mic.
 

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