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Nematordirus can cause high mortality in lambs and impact growth rates if not monitored and managed correctly.
Nematordirus can strike rapidly because infective larvae develop within the eggs, meaning infection can pass from one lamb crop to another. Lower tempertures can delay egg hatching. Where there is a period of cold weather followed by warmer weather of 10°C or more, it can lead to a mass hatch. If this hatch coincides with lambs beginning to graze, the results are devastating.
Unlike other sheep worms, faecal egg count tests are not as reliable becuase the damage is done by large numbers of immature larvae which aren't producing eggs.
Signing up for the Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) Nematodirus Forecast will alert you of a risk in your area based on local weather conditions.
Grazing lambs on clean pasture not grazed by other lambs last year can also reduce the danger.
For more information or to plan your parasite control strategy for this season speak to your local RAMA
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