Worming dairy cows

Is there any advantage to worming cows at drying off time,would 1st calf heifers do any better with worming at drying off. Would it only reduce the cows natural immunity to worms . Never wormed cows before or seen the need
 

upnortheast

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Think there was a campaign a few years ago ( I assume by someone selling wormer ) that there were benifits.
You could, Get the vet to do some worm counts.
and / or Select (say ) 10 heifers coming up to drying off.
Worm 5. Don`t worm 5
Compare their weight gain when dry , milk yields, fertility etc etc over the next 6 months
Put your results on TFF ;)
 

Sid

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allowed in non lactating dairy cows
 

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