SERIOUS EFFECTS OF WORMS TO YEARLING CALVES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 29, 3 May 1950, Page 4

SERIOUS EFFECTS OF WORMS TO YEARLING CALVES

Evidence accumulates daily of the large number of young stock (princiually yearling calves) that are affected with intestinal worms in the district. Untreated animals have a very poor chance qf survival and with the worst months still to get through, farmers who value their animals will be wise in attending to this very necessary work now, a*d continuing the treatment once per month until the end of June, or longer if necessary When it is realised that stock in the first place 'are called upon to act as incubators of all intestinal parasites, the value of repeated applications of suitable drougs of a tonic nature can be best assessed at their true value.

Phenothiazine is easily the most economical and sure y/ay of destroying such infestations, and if used according to directions has a tonic effect. It sometimes happens that only one or two members of a group of calves is visibly affected with scour or worm, and farmers with insufficient knowledge of the drastic nature of this trouble, will treat only the apparently affected arimals, leaving the balance of the group to carry on the destructive work.

It should always be remembered that in-calf heifers should be sparingly drenched with drugs of a violent nature and the same advice can with advantage be applied to vLo case of all animals carrying young. Salt/ for all animals has a value far in advance of the trifling cost iof providing all stock with the same, and young animals generally are seldom provided with sufficient tc< maintain good health.