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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1743466" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Part of my first real off-farm job, as a college freshman(back around 1977, so before the advent of Ivermectin), was caring for a colony of dogs at the Vet. School, which were infected with Spirocerca lupi, a worm that utilizes dung beetles as an intermediate host, and chickens as a paratenic (secondary) host. </p><p>Life cycle diagram here: </p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachment/5f22ead7-9910-44d9-8586-e0bebb09e536/gr1.jpg[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Also kept colonies of dung beetles in big terra cotta pots of soil - which I fed feces collected from the infected dogs. Every so often, the University maintenance guys would come through spraying for roaches... and kill off the dung beetle colony, and we'd have to go out and collect more out of the cowpastures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1743466, member: 12607"] Part of my first real off-farm job, as a college freshman(back around 1977, so before the advent of Ivermectin), was caring for a colony of dogs at the Vet. School, which were infected with Spirocerca lupi, a worm that utilizes dung beetles as an intermediate host, and chickens as a paratenic (secondary) host. Life cycle diagram here: [URL unfurl="true"]https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachment/5f22ead7-9910-44d9-8586-e0bebb09e536/gr1.jpg[/URL] Also kept colonies of dung beetles in big terra cotta pots of soil - which I fed feces collected from the infected dogs. Every so often, the University maintenance guys would come through spraying for roaches... and kill off the dung beetle colony, and we'd have to go out and collect more out of the cowpastures. [/QUOTE]
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