Routine monitoring is a vital component of adequate parasite control in sheep and we are used to seeing stomach worms and liver fluke. This September we encountered an unusual suspect with levels ...

Hydatid tapeworm. Definitive host: Carnivores such as dogs, wolves, foxes, dingos. Intermediate host: Herbivore such as sheep, pigs, kangaroos. Prevalence & Distribution: The tapeworm infection is ...

THREE to four per cent of lines of sheep at abattoirs in Victoria over the past few years have one or more animals infected with tape worm in them, a national study has shown.

Thus Wetzel1 describes the feeding habits of Chabertia ovina (Gmelin, 1790) from the large intestine of the sheep and says: ” Longitudinal sections of specimens attached to the mucosa show that ...

A new solution designed to support sheep farmers in tackling worm resistance is now available under the Animal Health and ...

Dogs acquire the disease by consuming viscera of infected animals, such as sheep, making it prevalent in sheep farms and rural communities. The deworming program had reduced the prevalence of the ...