Re: [Blackbelly] some interesting articles on parasite control

2007-11-29 Thread Terry
You are quite welcome-- I LOVE going on information hunts... Terry W --- Barb Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for those links, Terry, especially the second > one. > > Barb > Be a bett

Re: [Blackbelly] Cocci Control

2007-11-29 Thread Terry
Barb, Consider lime-stabilizing your sacrifice areas and the barn floor. This will help solidify the surface, so that the little buggers can't hide as well below the surface, or get stirred up when the area gets pugged. Lime stabilized soils can be planted over, as well, so you wouldn't necessa

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2007-11-29 Thread j...@netzero.net
This is my first time writing and I am finally in plain text. I've really been enjoying the information I've been reading but most of all I can't thank Carol enough for saving the life of the orphan we got from a friend. In the beginning we had to force her to eat and now she's asking for way t

[Blackbelly] lThe D.E. Drama Continues

2007-11-29 Thread Barb Lee
Well, the boys checked in with 100 epg today, down from 250 at last count. I thought I might be able to attribute some of the decline to hypobiosis, dormancy in the worms, but I looked back in my records and see that some of the animals were passing up to 1000 epg on December 5th last year. S

[Blackbelly] Then there's the cocci situation...

2007-11-29 Thread Barb Lee
Well, huh... The cocci count in the lambs has crashed to nearly zip. Three weeks ago I checked and the lambs were pretty heavily peppered with cocci oocysts, but nobody was "clinical" (diarrhea). I did a five-day Corid treatment which dropped the count to almost zero. Then about a week ago, t

Re: [Blackbelly] Then there's the cocci situation...

2007-11-29 Thread Barb Lee
Well, I'm probably not as smart as I thought I was (surprise surprise!) LOL! Reading up on a good cocci article showed me that essentially, the lambs actually were "clinical," they just handled it without scouring. In some cases, apparently the animal does not start to shed oocysts until 5-7 d