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Control of endoparasites in small ruminants systems by Duddingtonia flagrans
Project
Project code: vTI-OEL-08-oel-fal 002
Contract period: 01.02.2004
- 31.12.2007
Purpose of research: Applied research
Clinical and subclinical endoparasitism threatens increasingly the small ruminant husbandry. The economical losses are well known. Facing the progressive extension of resistance against deworming drugs, the feasibility of those control systems, which are based on the development cycle of the helminths and avoid the reinfection of the host has to be taken into account. On farm, a suitable rotational grazing system is not realised, because of the predicted workload. The described trial wants to record the workload and the impact on the animal health and the avoidance of anthelmintics. One group of second-year-grazing, non-gestating dairy goats (“Bunte Deutsche Edelziege”) will pass over a pasture, which, in the previous year, was grazed by highly infested goats. Once a lot of pasture was used with a weekly turnover, it won’t be grazed a second time in the same season. The whole grazing season will last about 28 weeks. By utilising the epidemiology of the endoparasites, a deworming should not be necessary. In the year 2005 a group of first-year-grazing kids and 2006 the group of the milking goats will graze with a varying turnover. This study should answer the question, if this grazing system is recommendable for organic farming concerning workload and animal health.
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Subjects
- Agricultural Technology Animal Production
- Animal health
