Effects of treatment with topical ivermectin three and eight weeks after turnout on nematode control and the performance of second-season beef suckler cattle

Authors

  • S. M. Taylor
  • P. F. McMullin
  • T. R. Mallon
  • A. Kelly
  • W. T. R. Grimshaw

Keywords:

beef calves, suckled, gastrointestinal nematodes, grazing

Abstract

Two groups of yearling suckled beef calves born between January and May of the preceding year and another two groups of lighter and slightly younger calves born between the previous March and July were grazed during their second year on four separate paddocks known to be contaminated with infective larvae of gastrointestinal nematodes.

Full article published in Veterinary Record (1995) 136, 558-561

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1995-09-14

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