Parasites

[Mikey B 0]

Hello.

 

After the other nights shooting rabbits I started to skin and dress them and found in one of them what seem to me to be some form of eggs within a large liquid filled sack attached to an elbow joint. Then on closer inspection noticed another under the front leg so I removed the to front legs and there was two larger sized sacks attached between the shoulder blade and ribs. The liver was also damaged.

I have never come across this so would like to know if anyone has.

Edited November 24, 2007 by Mikey B

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Can anyone tell me how to attach pictures so I can actually show what I am talking about.

 

 

Ohgh! Do ye have to?! :sick:

 

Sounds like worms, mate. That's the egg cysts. Interestingly, back in the mid 1920's, a bloke called Mark Hovell (a Rat Catcher) theorised on a connection between Cockroaches and Cancer. His hypothesis was that the 'roaches brought the worms eggs to people. Those eggs then did, in man, what they've been doing in that rabbit. Hovell then reckons though that the outer skin of the 'used' cyst is left there and later prone to developing cancerous cell.

 

There. Bet ye never thought ye'd get to learn That from shooting a rabbit!

[stubby 175]

well lets hope you have some pictures on you pc, the lower the quaility of them, the more you can put on each post, after clicking the reply button, you'll have ya area to type in, just under to the right you'll see a green button , just to the left a grey browse button, click on that, that will take ya into your computer files/photo's etc, click on the picture you want and it will bring you back to your first screen, now hit the green button, to upload it to this site, once uploaded it will say just to the left, the size of the picture and if its to large or ok, you'll see how many bytes you have used, now once thats done the long box above the green button "manage attachments" click on the down arrow, youll see 2 files, one for adding to your post, and one for removing, click on the add one, then onto the add reply at bottom of page, that should do ya

[SNAP SHOT 194]

Tapeworm cysts sounds like, they can be both internal and external, normally found down the lumber region, but can also be found in the jaw of the animal, and around the joints of the backlegs. but whats to stop themgoing to the front legs.............

[Mikey B 0]

Thanks for the info mate ive managed to get some pictures up now if you fancy a look. Never seen this before and i have skined 1000's of rabbits. Didn't fancy eating this one.