Tapeworm Treatments Debate still rages over the merits of treating lambs for tapeworm. The vast majority of lambs still receive a tape worm drench normally before weaning. It doesn’t cost a lot extra and farmer observation is certainly that lambs dry up and that black shitty scour is stopped. What we would suggest […]
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Take Care With Calf Drenches
Over recent times we have dealt with several cases of toxicity from the over-dosing of lighter calves or young cattle due to double dosing or not paying attention to actual body weights. Many of you following our recommendations are using combination drenches that contain abamectin or levamizole. Both of these drugs can cause problems if […]
Pre-Weaning Drenching Of Lambs??
I recently read an article from an ‘expert’ suggesting that although milk lambs can have quite high faecal egg counts, drenching them before weaning is not necessary as the milk in their diets allows lambs to do well despite the worms. I have some great reservations with this advice for real world farmers which includes: […]
Knock Out Drenching
We have discussed this in previous newsletters. At the conference, papers were given on the potential of knock out drenching programmes to slow drench resistance development. Essentially knock out drenching involves using one of the new families of drenches (Startect or Zolvix) to remove any worms in lambs or ewes that may have survived through […]