Show off your Peas!

[KsKingBee]

Very nice selection of birds!

 

[Birdrain92]

Now stop and wiggle it!

Now fan it!

Now Pose

Say what?!

Now where did that ladybug go?


j
What was that?!

The wild peacock

Fly away!

He's standing and I think he could hide in these if he layed down.

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

Sorghum time














Bath time for these dirty birds

Getting preened

front and back

That's awesome!!

 

[Peacockvilla13]

Hey nice pictures ,is that with your phone camera or a regular camera ?

 

[Trefoil]

Great pics everybody. Just a FYI- its not a good idea to use just one "family" of wormer over an extended period of time. Doing so allows the parasites a chance to build up resistance to it and eventually will make that "family" worthless.

 

[casportpony]

Great pics everybody. Just a FYI- its not a good idea to use just one "family" of wormer over an extended period of time. Doing so allows the parasites a chance to build up resistance to it and eventually will make that "family" worthless.

Probably true... too bad ivermectin doesn't kill cecal and capillary worms. Maybe pyrantel pamoate would?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Just found this:

http://www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/files/pub-sheep-wormer.pdf
There are now five different types of broad-spectrum wormers available against
gastro-intestinal parasites in sheep.
The groups that have been available for some time include:

■ Group 1-BZ. Benzimidazoles (albendazole, fenbendazole, oxfendazole and mebendazole)
■ Group 2-LV. Levamisole
■ Group 3-ML. Macrocyclic lactones (ivermectin, doramectin and moxidectin)

Resistance to all these three types of wormers has been recorded in the UK. 82% of farms in Wales
which took part in recent studies, had benzimidazole resistance or levamisole resistance or both.
More recent studies have detected an increase in ML resistance. Wormer resistance does not
suddenly appear on a farm, but the wormer does gradually become less effective.
Two new wormer groups are now available for sheep in the UK:

■ Group 4-AD. Amino-Acetonitrile Derivatives (Monepantel) - launched in 2010
■ Group 5-SI. Spiroindoles (Derquantel) – launched in 2012 as a ‘dual active’ preparation with
abamectin (a macrocyclic lactone, 3-ML)

Wormer resistance in sheep
While the additional wormer groups are very welcome, it does not mean that wormer resistance
can be forgotten. It is essential that all wormers are used properly. Part of this is to know how
effective wormers are on your farm. There are several ways you can do this:

■ A simple drench check
Faeces samples from at least 10 lambs are tested for worm eggs at set intervals after treatment;
seven days after levamisole (Group 2-LV), 14 days after a benzimidazole (Group 1-BZ) or
macrocyclic lactone (Group 3-ML). This assumes that the animals have been treated correctly and
that there were egg laying worms present initially. The individual samples should be submitted
which AHVLA can either test individually or accurately pool to give a mean egg count. Any
suspicions of inefficacy should be tested more accurately. The drench check can be improved by
additionally testing faeces samples for worm eggs at treatment.

■ A faecal egg count reduction test
This is a more structured test involving marked and weighed groups of lambs treated with one
or more wormer types. Faeces samples are tested at treatment (minimum 200 eggs per gram
needed) and a set time post treatment (as in the drench check). The percentage reduction in worm
eggs is calculated to detect resistance.

■ In vitro tests
These are currently only available to detect benzimidazole and levamisole resistance, using faeces
collected from a group of lambs. AHVLA offers a larval development test.

Further information
Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) is an industry led group that represents the
interests of the sheep industry. It was formed to develop sustainable strategies for parasite control
in sheep and includes representatives from a wide range of industry and government organisations
including AHVLA.

See the SCOPS website for further information on worms, wormer resistance and its management
at: www.scops.org.uk

Contact your private veterinary surgeon for further advice.

 

[Mehjr10]

Kathy or Anyone else that would like to add in. - I would assume (could be bad) that Valbezan and Safeguard since they both have technical Names ending in Zole are in the same class? For my edification.

Your thoughts on a mixture of Valbezan and Ivermectin, I use it for worming dogs and have been using it on the chickens. 500ml of Valbezan with 10 ml of ivermec mixed in. Safe for the wee pees, and the older ones also ?


Thanks
Mitch

Well finished typing this and you have answered half of it already !

This one is close to home, They may have studied the pyrantel pamoate at some point. http://msucares.com/poultry/diseases/disparas.htm

 

[casportpony]

Kathy or Anyone else that would like to add in. - I would assume (could be bad) that Valbezan and Safeguard since they both have technical Names ending in Zole are in the same class? For my edification.

Your thoughts on a mixture of Valbezan and Ivermectin, I use it for worming dogs and have been using it on the chickens. 500ml of Valbezan with 10 ml of ivermec mixed in. Safe for the wee pees, and the older ones also ?


Thanks
Mitch

Well finished typing this and you have answered half of it already !

This one is close to home, They may have studied the pyrantel pamoate at some point. http://msucares.com/poultry/diseases/disparas.htm

There is a product made in Mexico, Tri-Fen Plus and many years ago it was a combo of fenbendazole and ivermectin. Today it's a pill that has 30mg albendazole (fenbendazole) and .2mg abamectin, which is like ivermectin, I think. Dose is one pill per 2.2 pounds. Probably safe to use them together, but I would want to experiment on a bunch of chickens first, lol. It looks like this:


-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

Great pics everybody. Just a FYI- its not a good idea to use just one "family" of wormer over an extended period of time. Doing so allows the parasites a chance to build up resistance to it and eventually will make that "family" worthless.

I think this would only apply if you did not get all the worms and their eggs at the time of worming, keeping them on a schedule should where the worms are killed in a timely matter and not leaving any behind to build up a resistance.

This is why we say when you give antibiotics give them as per instruction and don't just stop cause they are getting better cause anything left behind can build up a resistance and you would have to use a different antibiotic next time , if there is one.

This is just how i understand these things work.