This sounds very interesting and so much easier to dose everyone with. But I have a question regarding poultry who like to drink out of the sheep's water and especially the ducks who unfortunately swim in it that I chase out daily. Will this Basic H hurt them? How about the eggs they lay that we eat and sell for eating? Will I need to throw the eggs away for a while just in case?
Thank you, Marion --- Barb Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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]/ > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail =============================================== 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]/
