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by Deborah Maxwell, ParaBoss Executive Officer
How can you safeguard your investment and get the best growth from your sheep? >> Read more.
from the FlyBoss web site
How effective have your fly treatment and prevention strategies been this season? Follow these steps and use these FlyBoss resources to review your annual flystrike management plan. >> Read More.
from the LiceBoss web site
Whether to treat lice infestations in long wool is complex. Find out how the LiceBoss Long Wool Tool can help you to decide. >> Read more.
from the WormBoss web site
The thinness or fatness of your goats and how it changes over time can indicate if they are affected by worms. >> Read more.
Sheep measles is known by two scientific names, i.e. Cysticercus ovis and Taenia ovis because the cyst in the muscles (including the heart) of sheep and goats was described and named as C. ovis before it was known to be the immature stage of the sheep tapeworm of dogs.
The discovery that the taeniid type of tapeworm has two stages in its life cycle was confirmed by scientist, Friedrich Kuchenmeister, in about 1853 when he arranged for a prisoner to unknowingly be fed cysts of Taenia solium from a pig a few days before execution. At post-mortem, young tapeworms were found. He later repeated the experiment with another prisoner—this time a few weeks before execution—and fully mature worms were extracted at the post-mortem of the condemned prisoner. This proved that these tapeworms take advantage of the predator-prey relationship between humans and pigs, and by extrapolation, between humans and cattle, and between farm and feral dogs and sheep and goats.
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