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BACKGROUND
Endoparisites live inside its host mainly inhabiting the stomach as it is the perfect condition. The most common and dangerous endoparasite to sheep in Australia is the barbers pole worm. These specific worms thrive in warm moist, conditions and especially after rainfall. These blood sucking worms can grow up to 20- 30mm and female worms are capable of laying up to 10 000 eggs a day.
The barber’s pole worm has three main life cycle stages of the dung, pasture and host stage (Figure 1). The dung stage is when the dung passes through the sheep onto the grass with the worms hatching and developing on the grass .The next stage is the pasture stage is the writhing movement resulting …show more content…
This was probably because R2 didn’t get enough drench in order to defeat the worms. This data is not very reliable because the worm egg count is not a very reliable way to count the total number of eggs and the classroom results were only collected from a random sheep and R2 after the vet results came back. Discussion
There are many methods in the fight against barber’s pole worm such as drenching. Drenching is the most common method as it cost efficient and easy to give to sheep. Drenches are an oral device that is placed in the side of the sheep’s mouth. Drenches that are used vary depending on what particular worms have to be controlled. For example if the sheep farmer wanted to treat his sheep for barber’s pole worm and black scour than he would use a multipurpose drench like Q drench to kill the worms.
Another method that is commonly used is paddock rotation and this is when the sheep are moved into different paddocks for a certain period of time. The time is usually 2 weeks since the worm larvae cannot live for over 2 weeks without living a host. This method also limits the amount of faeces on the paddock that enable the larvae to find a
To be completed at the end.
BACKGROUND
Endoparisites live inside its host mainly inhabiting the stomach as it is the perfect condition. The most common and dangerous endoparasite to sheep in Australia is the barbers pole worm. These specific worms thrive in warm moist, conditions and especially after rainfall. These blood sucking worms can grow up to 20- 30mm and female worms are capable of laying up to 10 000 eggs a day.
The barber’s pole worm has three main life cycle stages of the dung, pasture and host stage (Figure 1). The dung stage is when the dung passes through the sheep onto the grass with the worms hatching and developing on the grass .The next stage is the pasture stage is the writhing movement resulting …show more content…
This was probably because R2 didn’t get enough drench in order to defeat the worms. This data is not very reliable because the worm egg count is not a very reliable way to count the total number of eggs and the classroom results were only collected from a random sheep and R2 after the vet results came back. Discussion
There are many methods in the fight against barber’s pole worm such as drenching. Drenching is the most common method as it cost efficient and easy to give to sheep. Drenches are an oral device that is placed in the side of the sheep’s mouth. Drenches that are used vary depending on what particular worms have to be controlled. For example if the sheep farmer wanted to treat his sheep for barber’s pole worm and black scour than he would use a multipurpose drench like Q drench to kill the worms.
Another method that is commonly used is paddock rotation and this is when the sheep are moved into different paddocks for a certain period of time. The time is usually 2 weeks since the worm larvae cannot live for over 2 weeks without living a host. This method also limits the amount of faeces on the paddock that enable the larvae to find a