Observe and Manage Herd for Parasites

this for about two years now i've had to medicate my cows one time i did have an outbreak of very wormy cows at uh at one point and my cows were purchased off of a farm where they were very used to being wormed on a very consistent basis even the farmer told me you know what the secret to raising good animals is worming them and he wormed the snot out of his cows consequently giving those cows that warmer slowed the deterioration of their manure and slowed the rebuilding of the pasture okay so that dewormer not only goes through the cow and out its butt and into your pasture it also deworms your pasture so you've got to think about that now you've got to use common sense and you should consult your veterinarian on this if you're considering just using charcoal like this for a wormer for your cows you're going to have to assess your cows you're going to have to keep an eye on them you need to keep an eye on if somebody's losing weight if one of your cows looks like it may have an extra high parasite load and you can test that manure and see if that cow needs to be wormed okay so in other words what we're doing on the farm here is holistic management we're trying to do it the natural way but if our cows need medication we'll absolutely give them that medication so we'll make sure that we don't process our beef once the cow's been worn we give it a period of time before we process the beef or before we start calving or breeding but we've got to think about this and this is just one of the many ways that mother nature has shown us that we don't need chemicals in order to worm and get the parasite load down on our animals we need to keep our animals moving keep them out of the manure try and keep that grass a little bit taller okay so within the first five to seven centimeters is where all those worms hang out they hang out in that moist wet spot okay so we want to keep the cows moving don't let them over graze and give them access to stuff like this charcoal it helps to deworm your animals guys thanks a lot for joining me here on