Lung worm
- Thread starter Jamer
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happycows
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- North Devon Cornwall border
My cows are all in again this year but last year when we were building I had 2 bad outbreaks a month apart,even in 8/10 year old cows.
Knocked milk hard although lungworm wasn’t the only factor. Luckily didn't lose any and they recovered.
My cows having been previously housed on zerograzed grass seemed highly susceptible.
Knocked milk hard although lungworm wasn’t the only factor. Luckily didn't lose any and they recovered.
My cows having been previously housed on zerograzed grass seemed highly susceptible.
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I’ve used Autoworm blouses for many years, with great success. Unfortunately they are being removed from the market, vaccination was going to be an option. Doesn’t look like it is!
We’ve gone away from routine worming a few years ago and up until now without a problem. Last 3 gens of heifers Huskvac-ed. Really disappointed with where we’ve ended up.I’ve used Autoworm blouses for many years, with great success. Unfortunately they are being removed from the market, vaccination was going to be an option. Doesn’t look like it is!
We had it really bad last year. Lost one young heifer and lost a lot of time on the batch. Postmortem on the heifer showed we had killed them but the damage was really bad. Hence the loss. We hadn’t caught ug quick enough.
Unfortunate two wet years in a row with little really hot spells hasn’t helped. I feel your pain.
Unfortunate two wet years in a row with little really hot spells hasn’t helped. I feel your pain.
Wishful Thinker
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- Location
- Northern Ireland
Having a disaster this past week with it.
- Location
- South Devon
O'Reilly
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I believe the trouble is that lungworm disappears for a few years, so even if you huskvac, the natural immunity is not maintained. Then when a new wave comes through it is devastating. We had this 12 years ago. We weren't huskvaccing then, but do now. Regular faecal egg counts show no worm eggs so if it comes through again we could be hard hit.
Farmer Keith
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Dectomax twice, you’ll never see a case of it, once at turnout then again 8 weeks later, it’s 1/4 of the price of huskvac to.
We had it really bad last year in all cattle from cows to heifers, caused all sorts of problems from mastitis to losing a few cows but they never showed any of the classic signs of lung worm. Wormed everything and cured all the problems. This yr wormed everything after first heavy rain this autumn
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Had cattle here for six years but only had my first cases of husk here a month ago. Suckler bred yearling heifers, luckily grazing in a field next my pens and noticed before leaving for a weekend away.
TheRanger
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Had a nightmare here with it this year in the beef youngstock. Been getting a Cydectin pour on every 8-10 weeks, but still a few near deaths door.
- Location
- Middle of nowhere, Pembrokeshire
Had a nightmare with lung worm last year, treated the whole milking herd three times.
Our vet told us that after treatment some cows could develop pneumonia, at one point we had 10% of the herd on antibiotics to treat what we thought was pneumonia.
Some cows did have pneumonia but most were struggling with an outbreak IBR!!!
Lost a couple cows but also lost 500 litres a cow production across the whole herd for the season.
All in all a very shat autumn last year.
Treated the herd twice this autumn and all cows are looking well so far.
Will be giving them a IBR vaccine booster early next month.
Our vet told us that after treatment some cows could develop pneumonia, at one point we had 10% of the herd on antibiotics to treat what we thought was pneumonia.
Some cows did have pneumonia but most were struggling with an outbreak IBR!!!
Lost a couple cows but also lost 500 litres a cow production across the whole herd for the season.
All in all a very shat autumn last year.
Treated the herd twice this autumn and all cows are looking well so far.
Will be giving them a IBR vaccine booster early next month.
- Location
- cornwall
We’ve been husk vaccing for 8 years now, saved thousands on expensive eprinex and killing all the soil life. We’ve had no issues with lung worm this year or for the last 8I’ve used Autoworm blouses for many years, with great success. Unfortunately they are being removed from the market, vaccination was going to be an option. Doesn’t look like it is!
- Location
- cornwall
We’ve been using huskvac for 8 years, no issues this year. Saved us a lot of money on eprinex etc. plus we have a lot of dung beetles.
Are you sure it’s not IBR?
Autoworm isn’t eprinex, pulse release of white drench, so enables the animal to build resistance and isn’t harmful to soil life like the ivermectin type products.
When I priced it this spring, vaccinating for lungworm was more expensive than Autoworm! Couldn’t get my head around that!
Def not IBR
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
We have had to use levacide based wormer being organic, had to cover youngstock twice this year, had one nearly fit to kill steer suffer from it and ended up needing draxin for pneumonia and anti inflammatory, thankfully looking well now
We buy stores all year round. I've always toyed with using huskvac to cut down the dosing. Would it work quick enough or would the summer bought animals struggle to get immunity quick enough?
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