White small maggots in dung?

[flowerlady]

Sorry to post in here but have posted in stableyard as well. A Friend bought a new horse yesterday and pooh picked field tonight and found lots of smnall maggots in dung? At first I thought tape worm but not flat or big enough just like small maggots any idea which worm infestation this is please. Can't find any pics on internet.
Thanks in advance for any help

 

[Penguinboots]

Could it be pinworm?
Like this... http://www.diagnosteq.com/images/pinworm1.jpg ?

 

[Daisychain]

I would imagine if the dung had hung around then it is flies which have laid eggs on the droppings! dont panic.

 

[carys220]

Would agree with daisychain, unless you were there and saw the poo as soon as it came out of the horse then it's more than likely that flies had laid eggs. I had a massive panic about this too once. Try and catch him/her having a poo and 'dissect' the poo to see if they are there before the flies get there!

 

[merlinsquest]

If that was the case, would it not be normal to see maggotty things in droppings??? I have never seen any in merlins, or the others in the field.... only the ginger [****] flies hatching out of very old ones!!

 

[Donkeymad]

Send either a maggot thing or some good photos to Chris Dolby of Abbey Diagnostics, and she will identify it for you.

Details HERE

 

[Weezy]

There is no way in this world that dung of 24hrs would have maggots in already from flies.

 

[Daisychain]

I poo pick every day lol! and i see them all the time on staler droppings!

 

[Maisy]

My mares poo has white eggs laid in within minutes of being done......I know, cos they are still warm......but it isnt worms as I have checked ones straight from her!!
I havent ever seen them as maggots....I assume they have flown away before I pick it up!

 

[Weezy]

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I poo pick every day lol! and i see them all the time on staler droppings!

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I poo pick daily too, and I have never in my life seen maggots in 24hr old or less droppings.

 

[Daisychain]

Perhaps we have different flies...

 

[Weezy]

Absolutely - I am really intrigued by this thread TBH - we don't even have maggots in the poo picking dump that I have ever seen!!!

 

[Daisychain]

There will be lol! break an old one up and see.

 

[Weezy]

I load it into sacks for the gardener - quite possibly I have never paid enough attention but I am 100% there is never any in the field poo - guess what I will be doing tomorrow in wellies, with gloves and on top of the poo pile

 

[flowerlady]

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Absolutely - I am really intrigued by this thread TBH - we don't even have maggots in the poo picking dump that I have ever seen!!!

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O.K. Everyone Sorry It's taken so long to reply Bloody computer crashed when I'd posted only just been able to get back on.

So I rang my friend again and it turns out that the horse she has bought is being kept at the same place it was when she bought it and looks like they haven't pooh picked (for a while) so yes sounds now like they are fly maggots (which take ten days to hatch) friend not happy as we pooh pick every day. I've a feeling said horse will not be staying there very long. Thank you all again. I thought it seemed odd but I've never found anything in my horse's pooh same as MQ. So trying to identify something quickly for my friend and I couldn't find anything on the internet with pics. So I thought of all of you

Better than any other site for info. I'm trying to get friend to join so she can ask if there's anything although have warned her very addictive.

Thanks again

 

[Cuffey]

Bot fly larvae??
Except they arent really white
Cant think of other larvae passed out in dung

 

[flyingfeet]

Small redworms or pinworm

http://www.diagnosteq.co.uk/intestine.html

 

[josephine]

Like Weezy, I have never seen any maggots in horse dung, whether old droppings or yesterday's. How strange!

 

[oofadoofa]

I find them all the time in poo too! I seems to be worse with the wet summers we've been having! One lady at my yard had a massive panic last year when she found one on her horse's frog whilst picking his feet out, can only assume that he had stood in some poo though as farrier had been out the day before and his feet were fine then.

 

[Weezy]

OK I am back from my poo analysis - NO WORMS OR MAGGOTS other than earth worms - how bizarre is that, the poo we looked through (got a 13 year old to help me LOL) was up to 2 weeks old in the poo pile!

 

[wishfulthinking]

I was thinking Bot larvae when I saw the title but they are quite juicy looking and not as small and not as white as a normal maggot.