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Liver flukes?
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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 1546144" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p>We've had Liver Fluke on our place for the two decades I've been farming here. Before we started treating, cows would go down in drains (mostly) and not have the strength to get up. They were also really low in copper. </p><p></p><p>After twenty years of varying levels of treatment with Triclabendazole, (the label says it kills all phases of fluke in cattle and we can get it in oral or a pour-on combination), I began to suspect that ensuring that the cattle had good levels of copper in their livers was somewhat protective for fluke.</p><p></p><p>Over many years I've tested cull cow livers for copper and recorded their levels of supplementation and also noted how often any of them were reported to have had live liver fluke at slaughter or other liver damage indicating earlier infestation. The years my copper program was good, there was no fluke reported. In a couple of years I wasn't on the ball, the fluke were back again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 1546144, member: 5956"] We've had Liver Fluke on our place for the two decades I've been farming here. Before we started treating, cows would go down in drains (mostly) and not have the strength to get up. They were also really low in copper. After twenty years of varying levels of treatment with Triclabendazole, (the label says it kills all phases of fluke in cattle and we can get it in oral or a pour-on combination), I began to suspect that ensuring that the cattle had good levels of copper in their livers was somewhat protective for fluke. Over many years I've tested cull cow livers for copper and recorded their levels of supplementation and also noted how often any of them were reported to have had live liver fluke at slaughter or other liver damage indicating earlier infestation. The years my copper program was good, there was no fluke reported. In a couple of years I wasn't on the ball, the fluke were back again. [/QUOTE]
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