A Roe that I shot on Friday was totally healthy apart from some translucent pinkish cysts or blisters on it's lung. I'm 99% sure it's tapeworm cysts, can anyone else confirm this? Sorry I don't have any pictures.
Trachea seemed okay, nothing unusual, no white areas on the lungs either. These where not nodules they where more like small sacs of fluid, a little like burn blisters but a bit bigger. all lymph glands appeared normal.
Year before last I diagnosed under microscopic examination Echinococcus granulosis ( tapeworm ) in the lungs of a Roe doe. In another doe from the same area the following year there was calcification of cysts in the fat around the kidney which could have been tapeworm.
Year before last I diagnosed under microscopic examination Echinococcus granulosis ( tapeworm ) in the lungs of a Roe doe. In another doe from the same area the following year there was calcification of cysts in the fat around the kidney which could have been tapeworm.
This was the first time I have found it in deer, it was incidental to doing a witnessed gralloch and I happened to be present to take samples. Needless to say we will be monitoring the gralloch this doe season as that is the only time we manage the deer.Wildlife Trust property.
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