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I was wondering if two leaftails bred and one or both possibly had a parasite, would the baby have the parasite as well? I hope that made sense.
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~Jess

To my knowledge, there are no parasites which can be transmitted from parent to offspring in oviparous animals. I could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure.

However, I would not breed a heavly parisitize animal anyway, as it will only increase strees, and worsen the animal's condition. Of course, many animals live long, healthy, and productive lives with a few unnoticed parisites (about 3/4 of "healthy" American adults have a tape worm in their digestive tracts.). That is not a heavy parisite loadwhich could stress an animal however.

Jared
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Yum!! tapeworms. By far my least favorite parasite.

Jason

your tapeworms don't have offspring in your tummy , ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww , gosh thats pretty freakin gross
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what are you talkin about? they're great if you wanna have an effective diet!

Thats what they used back in the 1800's when people wanted to lose weight.

lol, i totally forgot about that. i remember seeing one of those real old advertisements for tapeworms. yummy for my tummy.

3/4, not in americans, maybe healthy adults in the "world", but definitely not in america. i know of people who have had tapeworm and it s not really harmful but i doubt it s 3/4 of adults.

still...wow.
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wow, tapeworms... NASTY stuff.

yeah they are pretty nasty especially if you have half of one hangin out of you. the longest living organism in the world is the tape worm of the blue whale. theyre really not that bad, but fluke worms are the worst, second only to malaria.

aww man this is all bringin back memories of the life-cycles and effects of different parasites we studied back in lower-level zoology courses.

blech

Wouldnt surprise me in the least if many of us having worked a long time with WC animals had a few pinworms or the like... Even when you are meticulously clean, not being able to see eggs/larvae on everything you touch or otherwise makes it impossible to be sure.

Say a cricket eats or walks thru some WC fecal matter. It escapes the cage and roams thru your house. You have no idea what it could touch, dishes, your toothbrush... anything really.. kinda of a gross thought and probably not the most common scenario, but its very possible.
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Ahhh pinworms...About 1.5 yrs ago my son was waking up at night screaming about "monsters in his butt". He's quite the dramatical little dude, but nevertheless, my wife talked to the pediatrician (she worked in his clinic) and he suggested pinworms. That night the ole lady and I headed into the boy's room after he'd zonked and checked out the situation. Lo-and-behold...pinworms (they come out at night and lay eggs around the anus). Pretty sure that he got them from daycare, and not any transient crix, but they're out there........

You can also get them from grass and soil, used to be an issue when feeding fresh greens to our animals. For some reason they are most prevalent on the grass stalks early in the am..
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I had pin worms a few years ago when I worked at East Bay Vivarium. I woke up in the middle of the night and gave myself a good scratch like every normal person and felt something slip under my nail. Got up and turned on the light, what a discovery... My c.h. green tree pythons had them a month earlier and so did one of my mangrove monitors. I knew where mine came from. But let me tell you, if you thought indian food was spicy... you're sooo wrong.

Jason

A good sign, besides what Jason said (a bit itchy in the butt area) LOL, is kids who pick their noses alot, (No kidding)

And as far as the ones who EAT what they pick, ..... well I don't even wanna GO THERE LMAO

We are all SICKO's
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Yea, I heard to watch for them scooting the rear end across the floor too - hahaha...
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There is a reason they came up with the phrase "Fire in the Hole"

Bet you ran right down to the feed store for some panacur, huh?

LOL - what did they treat you with?
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Panacur and something else. I was on keflex at the time to for a kidney infection. I had no appetite from from the keflex add in their the worms and the meds, I was not happy. I looked like a speed freak after two or three eightballs. it was a horrible sight.

6 weeks later no more worms...

Jason

hmmm....wondering if maybe this is why everyone i knew was affected by "the freshman 15" except for me....

anyone run fecals on themselves? lol!

this is getting out of hand!

OUT OF HAND and NOT in hand, that would mean ya been SCRATCHING
BACK THERE

ahaaaaaaaaaaaaahahhhahahaha falling off my chair laughing
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Feeding them GARLIC kills the worms, So I suggest WE ALL STOCK UP ON THE GARLIC,

ESPECIALLY YOU Jason ! LMAO
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I've not caught any kind of parasite, but as much WC stuff as I work with... maybe one of these days I can post some first hand experience - you guys are killing me.. hahah...
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