Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Southern by choice]

@misfitmorgan & Mike The ASRPC has done a great deal of research on this. This link gives quite a few studies.
https://www.wormx.info/sl

Years ago when we got into Kikos (after talking to Dr. Jean-Marie Luginbuhl) we went to one of the conferences he was teaching. He is a really neat person too, but anyway the slide show and the info was fantastic. When the goats/sheep eat the lespedeza it isn't really a dewormer, but it coats the parasites and makes it impossible for them to feed or reproduce. The slides were incredible! Really cool slides!!!
We have wild lespedeza here and our goats do not eat it unless they need it and it must be fresh. They won't eat the hay or pelleted form. Just fresh cut stalks.

 

[misfitmorgan]

UT and U of KY have been doing research on several farms with lespedeza as it has natural worming properties. Sheep love it and on the farm we visit in Kentucky he has to close off fields that has it until it gets some growth on it. The Gregg Bann farm in Kentucky is owned by one of the Ag department heads (and lead researcher) that has been doing the studies. He doesn't have goats but he runs several hundred head of sheep with cattle on rotation.

Good to know, thank you for the info!

 

[misfitmorgan]

@misfitmorgan & Mike The ASRPC has done a great deal of research on this. This link gives quite a few studies.
https://www.wormx.info/sl

Years ago when we got into Kikos (after talking to Dr. Jean-Marie Luginbuhl) we went to one of the conferences he was teaching. He is a really neat person too, but anyway the slide show and the info was fantastic. When the goats/sheep eat the lespedeza it isn't really a dewormer, but it coats the parasites and makes it impossible for them to feed or reproduce. The slides were incredible! Really cool slides!!!
We have wild lespedeza here and our goats do not eat it unless they need it and it must be fresh. They won't eat the hay or pelleted form. Just fresh cut stalks.

Thank you SBC!

 

[Southern by choice]

Thank you SBC!

Your welcome... but this is cool... as I went to look up the link for you one of the articles caught my eye. I had not seen the one on coccidia control! I just read through it. I had no idea about this.
This, right here is what I love about our BYH forums! Without questions, without each other I would not have even seen that.
There is more info than I remember being on there. I'm going to scope it out now!
Sorry Mike for hijacking your journal.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Your welcome... but this is cool... as I went to look up the link for you one of the articles caught my eye. I had not seen the one on coccidia control! I just read through it. I had no idea about this.
This, right here is what I love about our BYH forums! Without questions, without each other I would not have even seen that.
There is more info than I remember being on there. I'm going to scope it out now!
Sorry Mike for hijacking your journal.

Haha that was actually where i just went too. I think Oreo needs treated for Cocci which means everyone probly does. Still reading it and thanks for mentioning the cocci kiling adults a few years ago because I wouldn't even have though of it otherwise.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Your welcome... but this is cool... as I went to look up the link for you one of the articles caught my eye. I had not seen the one on coccidia control! I just read through it. I had no idea about this.
This, right here is what I love about our BYH forums! Without questions, without each other I would not have even seen that.
There is more info than I remember being on there. I'm going to scope it out now!
Sorry Mike for hijacking your journal.

I also, by proxy got lead here when searching for pellets.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S187114131300468X

 

[Mike CHS]

@misfitmorgan & Mike The ASRPC has done a great deal of research on this. This link gives quite a few studies.
https://www.wormx.info/sl

We have wild lespedeza here and our goats do not eat it unless they need it and it must be fresh. They won't eat the hay or pelleted form. Just fresh cut stalks.

Thank you. Gregg covered so many topics with so many different speakers that day that it all ran together.

 

[Mike CHS]

I never mind a hijack since most of the time they are full of info.

 

[Mike CHS]

We had been looking at possibly using the new Bioworma product until we sat down and crunched the numbers now that Premier1 has prices listed. Based on the recommended applications for a herd of 30 sheep, you would be adding $540 a month to the cost of the those sheep. That comes out to the equivalence of 3500 pounds of feed for our custom blend so the already narrow profit margin just went negative.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

We had been looking at possibly using the new Bioworma product until we sat down and crunched the numbers now that Premier1 has prices listed. Based on the recommended applications for a herd of 30 sheep, you would be adding $540 a month to the cost of the those sheep. That comes out to the equivalence of 3500 pounds of feed for our custom blend so the already narrow profit margin just went negative.

Yeah, just breed for parasites resistant sheep!