Manage pastureto promote gut health

摘要

Managing pasture to reduce the risk of coccidiosis and worm burdens is key to ensuring this year’s lamb crop is as productive as possible,stresses vet Miranda Macinnes,from Cornwall-based Calweton Veterinary Group.Most lambs become infected early in their lives with coccidia - microscopic parasites that live and reproduce in animal cells - with most species of the parasite proving harmless to sheep.But two species, Eimeria ovinoidcdis and Eimeria crandalis, can cause clinical disease in animals from three to around eight weeks old, and can result in long-term production losses.