The Home Herdsman’s Guide to Parasite Detection, Parasite Control, and Parasite Prevention in Livestock

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Understanding the roundworm life cycle can help your efforts at parasite prevention.
Understanding the roundworm life cycle can help your efforts at parasite prevention.
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Parasitic tapeworms and flatworms infest different organ systems.
Parasitic tapeworms and flatworms infest different organ systems.

Beginning farmers usually do pretty well with gardens, chopping wood and building outhouses . . . but the birth of that first calf or litter of pigs generally sets ’em back a couple of notches. R.J. Holliday DVM, a veterinarian in Missouri and MOTHER EARTH NEWS contributor, intends to remedy the situation. His tool? A new handbook precisely designed to explain all the animal facts of life in language that new back-to-the-landers can understand.

Common Sense Control of Internal Parasites in Ruminants

No discussion of ruminant nutrition and management is complete without devoting some time to an understanding of the role played by internal parasites in disease conditions and in efficient production.

Cattle, sheep, and goats the world over support many kinds of internal parasites. Some of these hangers-on have no apparent ill effects on their hosts and seem only to be “along for the ride”, while others cause such drastic symptoms that they make profitable production of livestock almost impossible in the areas where they occur.

The damage done by these creatures is threefold:

  • Published on Jan 1, 1973
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