The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-07-26
Stomach Worms In
Sheep and Calves
By WARD CILTNER State Veterinarian East Lansing Mich.

these worms to be serious, and VIC
wish to call attention to the znszsa
whereby their ravages may be over
come, at least to Il degree. The Car
history of ,hese worms is not fully UTt-
derstood, but we know that they Gse7
The embryo or young worm ha&rsss'a
from these eggs is picked up frens 1Sg.
grass or water by the sheep or yGzIrg
cattle and enter the stomach to STAR
the irritating process which We sENNg
described. 1t can De readily uT&s,-
stood that a permanent pasture u,&
especially one that has low, wet u&8asT
in it will be most liable to infestx4saa-
We do not see how permanera 9ss
ture can be used for sheep or yOsUsS
cattle when these worms have weSs
been introduced. The eggs undoU&ant~
ly live through the winter and a-s
ready to infest the lambs when 6Dr's
ed out in the spring. In view sc GTss
fact, we would recommend that Gssn
farmer contemplate Some meShaE
whereby he can maintain a rotataN0 Cof
pastures, and before turning out ycTs1s
stock on the spring pasture, il there ~
any probability that they are affensse
with stomach worms, treat them 30 81
manner to destroy the worms 6e1ocz
they enter the pasture. The whn,e
idea Of the treatment is to separake dbn
worm from the lamb or calf sEna
starve out the worm, which probably
cannot live for more than q year I'm Chr
absence of some such animal host We
would recommend that the treatme0s
be conducted as follows:
Place the animals to be treated 5B n
small Enclosure free from all litter anS
give them nothing but water for twea-
ty-four hours. Salt sprinkled with ssUr
pentine can be kept before tbem AT
the time. The treatment may be prs.
coded by n laxative or not. At any rate,
after dieting for twenty-four beayfY,
give from one-half to one ounce OF tyr
pentine in from one pint to one quart
of fresh skimmilk. On the following
day the animals may be given a aag8
tive, If 1t has not previously been CIV
en-, and after twenty-four hours thes
may be removed to the pasture. Where
the stomach worms have been a sserf-
Gus menace 1t would be well to pisa
on having four pastures.
Remove in the spring after the above
described treatment to pasture Onev
which should be free from infestatlon-
On July give another treatment szG
ran fn M fxuA N hnu u
give another treatment and remove 80
pasture three, or to lot, where they
may remain until the following March.
In March or as soon as possible re-
move to pasture four and on July 10
pasture one again, and so on, repeat
ing in this order.
After this the treatment should b.
only in the fall of the year, just BE-
fore entering the pasture or inc1osure
for the winter. Lambs that show sigxs
of infestation with worms shoHsd te
removed and treated separately AvOx
stocking the pastures too heavily tzeeF
salt before the animals all the t3ues
and avoid low, wet pastures. Animals
that die should be burned up n pos-
sible. otherwise buried very deeply.
II may be Of great value to throw
that 1t Is quite without danger 10 nw
infested pastures for other animals
than the ruminants, such as cattk.
sheep and goats. 1t will be perfectly
safe 20 pasture colts or hogs on thces
badly infested pastures, and where mo
other use can be found we would rec
this procedure.
The writer will he glad to comrnUKs-
stomach worms In their stock.