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- Resource bookSheep and Beef Cattle Health Review Workbook …
- PageIf you want the best information from your worm monitoring, make sure you collect fresh samples and store them correctly. Here’s a quick guide. … It’s best to collect fresh samples by quietly moving the mob of animals to a corner and letting them stand for 5–10 minutes, and then collecting what has been dropped. If it’s not possible to hold a mob somewhere , just let them drift quietly away from you through a gateway or narrow area. Ideally collect ones you’ve actually seen pass out the back …
- PageThings that can affect FEC results … This topic is a bit of a minefield, and we can’t stress enough that faecal egg counts are a GUIDE to the number of worms inside animals. You must interpret them in light of all other information available! The TREND in FECs can often be as helpful as the absolute numbers. Repeat FEC monitoring of a mob of animals often gives better information than one count in isolation … I’ve got the FEC results – what do they mean? The answer to this question usually …
- B+LNZ calling on farmers for groundbreaking research: we need your sheep poo …
- Managing forages after rain …
- PageIf only we didn’t have to collect poo, but we do!!! Faecal egg counts can be done on individual samples or on a bulk sample (composite samples). Learn about when you might use one or the other. … A faecal egg count (FEC) is a measure of the number of egg-laying adult worms in an animal’s gut. It mostly doesn’t show what species of worms are there. Faecal egg counts can be used to help assess: Whether sick sheep or young cattle are sick because of worms. How quickly young animals are becoming …
- FactsheetIll thrift - identifying the causes and measuring their effects …
- Tackling perennial farm production challenges …
