I debated whether to post this, but decided to go ahead. I recently dewormed all my stock with Shaklee Basic H at the rate of a little over 1 cup per 100 gallons of drinking water. The treated water is supposed to be the only available drinking water for minimum 3 days. I left it out longer than that.
Fecal counts, about one week later: Horses - negative Cattle - negative Sheep - One haemonchus egg (translates to 50 per gram I think?) Another site suggested 500 eggs per gram as time to worm. Also, believe it's Virginia State research herd - Ivermectin is virtually ineffective there against haemonchus, Panacur wiped out about 93% in a study. I think my sheep would have tested clean if they hadn't been getting so much moisture off the wet grass and drank more. Treated all sheep, pregnant dry, pregnant lactating, lambs, wether and ram. Basic H is essentially organic and non toxic to us higher life forms. Farmstead sells it as a possible wormer (with a thousand other uses). Otherwise, can be purchased from Shaklee on line in quantities up to large drums. Cost would vary, but I wormed 9 sheep at a cost of about 10 cents per head. Panacur from ValleyVet would be 24 cents per head. When I wean the lambs in another week or two, I'm going to hit everyone again - the sheep will be moving shortly thereafter to clean pastures which have never been grazed by sheep. Going to buy the fecal test kit from Farmstead and hopefully a microscope off eBay. FWIW, the horses SHOULD have revealed some infestation. They are on unrotated paddocks, on an 8 week Ivermectin worming schedule, which hasn't been rotated in their lifetimes. The calves have probably somewhat less exposure, but were last wormed in late August with Cydectin. I'm going to leave the poison on the shelf and try the Basic-H every 8 weeks for a good long trial. I'll report results. Regards, Barb Lee =============================================== This message is from the Blackbelly Sheep mailing list (http://www.awrittenword.com/listserv/index.html). To respond to this message, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe or change your membership options, go to http://lists.coyotenet.net/mailman/listinfo/blackbelly To search the archives, go to http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
