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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1835944" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>You can't deworm your way out of a nutritional deficiency.</p><p></p><p>Here we have a cow in the peak stage of lactation losing weight... and you don't have any idea about nutritional quality or digestibility of the hay you're feeding... it may not come anywhere close to providing those lactating cows with the amount of energy or protein that they need.</p><p></p><p>Adult cows over the age of 3 rarely have enough worms to have any significant impact on health. Liver flukes... that's a whole different issue. Unless you know the cows are wormy - have you had any fecal samples analysed? - you could be wasting hundreds of $$ pumping 'wormers' into cows that don't need deworming. Money that would have been better spent buying some feed...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1835944, member: 12607"] You can't deworm your way out of a nutritional deficiency. Here we have a cow in the peak stage of lactation losing weight... and you don't have any idea about nutritional quality or digestibility of the hay you're feeding... it may not come anywhere close to providing those lactating cows with the amount of energy or protein that they need. Adult cows over the age of 3 rarely have enough worms to have any significant impact on health. Liver flukes... that's a whole different issue. Unless you know the cows are wormy - have you had any fecal samples analysed? - you could be wasting hundreds of $$ pumping 'wormers' into cows that don't need deworming. Money that would have been better spent buying some feed... [/QUOTE]
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