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Livestock Logic recommends that
Livestock Logic advises that
We have had, over the last few months (100 days), a hot and dry summer with no real rain events except for one light fall of 10 mm in February. This has been a blessing for worm levels, which were incredibly high in December and January, resulting in many weaners needing monthly drenching during this period.
Unfortunately, the hot, dry weather has been a major contributor to the fires in south west Victoria and has also hindered the production of good quality feed from summer crops for young stock.
When the autumn break finally arrives there will be the potential for considerable numbers of worms to be present on pasture as large numbers of larvae would have survived the summer within faeces. For this reason, monitoring (WormTest) post the autumn break will be critical.
We urge producers who have not drenched or egg counted mature sheep since early February to check them now as there is the potential for high levels of pasture contamination to be still occurring, as we expect that animals would have ingested large numbers of worm larvae in the January period or even earlier.