WORMS IN SHEEP

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 37, 27 February 1937, Page 19

WORMS IN SHEEP

Drenching Ensures Good Hoggets TREATING JHE EWES (Contributed) • Hawke's Bay farmers afe beginning to realise more and more the. value of drenching in the successful rearing of hoggets and-- to recognjse that the Jabour and expense involved in this direction is amply repaid later on. It is intended here to outline a, simple System of drenching which, if carried out brings most beneficial results, both in the health of the. flock and the farmer }s ,bank balance. In view of the parasitic infection that has been prevalent^ ampng the mature sheep in this distriet, it is necessary to start " operations with the ewe about a week before tupping, by giving her a drench, and then again some six to . eight weeks before la,mbing, which usually coincides with ctutching. -Ewes are drehched at- these pei'iods as much for the sake of ;the unborn lamb as for the ewe herself, for it has -been -definitely estahlished that, where a ewe is aHlicted with internal parasites, She is quite capable of.passing them*on to the lamb and also producing a weakly ofispring. In the adyanced state .of pregnancy • of the ewe, the farmer must be parti- - cU'ar in his choice of drench and chose onq.with anthelmintic and tonic properties which will not pause - abortion; as some 'of" the powerful phemical pfephi8--tions .are inclined to do. • It' is essentiai that all lambs be drenched at WCaning time, ' whether they appear to- be infected Or not, and plaeed on the driest pastures' available. Qwing to. the f act that ' po, known drench -will remdve all' the eggs from the stomach and 'intestines at'ohe time, thp first -drench must'be repeated at an interval 'of about three weeks to ca|;ch the n»'wly:hatched woims. •Lfcquld the farmer see any Sign , of scour fie should at once muster and I drench his hoggets,. ' Quite often a scour fenown as black I or rrreen scour anpears, which- spreads

very rapidly and is highly inf ectious r and for which an ordinaTy drench i's usually inqfi!ectj\e. A special scour cordial must be vsed in these cases.