{"id":741,"date":"2015-02-26T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criagenesis.cc\/?p=741"},"modified":"2015-08-08T11:15:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T11:15:42","slug":"worm-control-in-alpacas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/worm-control-in-alpacas\/","title":{"rendered":"Worm control in alpacas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news! A new, 3-year alpaca gastrointestinal parasite project has just started\u00a0at the University of Melbourne, in\u00a0conjunction with RIRDC and AAA. Until more is known about alpaca\u00a0parasite\u00a0species, behaviour, drenching etc &#8230;\u00a0information from sheep\u00a0should be extrapolated to alpacas.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6f5e4e;\">Excerpt taken from <\/span><em style=\"color: #6f5e4e;\">wormmail in the cloud<\/em><span style=\"color: #6f5e4e;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6f5e4e;\">The three main points for sheep worm control in Australia, i.e.<\/span><strong style=\"color: rgb(111, 94, 78);\">\u00a0the 3 Ws\u00a0<\/strong><em><span style=\"color: #6f5e4e;\">(these are your three amigos)<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #6f5e4e;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #6f5e4e;\">\n<li><strong>W<\/strong>ormBoss. The right worm control program for your region. Click on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #644527;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wormboss.com.au\/programs.php\">Your Program<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<span class=\"skimlinks-unlinked\">wormboss.com.au<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"color: #644527;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wormboss.com.au\/tests-tools\/tests\/checking-a-mob-of-sheep-for-worms.php\"><strong>W<\/strong>EC before you treat<\/a>. How do you know when you need to drench? Do a worm egg count before drenching, apart from the routine drenches recommended for your area (in Your Program) e.g. in the summer rainfall area \u2013 tablelands and slopes \u2013 of NSW, the routine drenches are: pre-lambing, and lambs at weaning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>W<\/strong>EC after a drench, 10 days after. In WormBoss, this is called\u00a0<a style=\"color: #644527;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wormboss.com.au\/tests-tools\/tests\/checking-for-drench-resistance.php\">DrenchCheckDay10<\/a>. The idea is to monitor drench efficacy. The great majority of producers don\u2019t really know what drenches are working well on their farm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If in doubt about worm control in \u00a0your alpacas, contact your local veterinarian for assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news! A new, 3-year alpaca gastrointestinal parasite project has just started\u00a0at the University of Melbourne, in\u00a0conjunction with RIRDC and AAA. Until more is known about alpaca\u00a0parasite\u00a0species, behaviour, drenching etc &#8230;\u00a0information from&#8230; <a class=\"moretag hidemob\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/worm-control-in-alpacas\/\"> read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.criagenesis.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}