18 – It doesn’t just have to be chemical warfare
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Harrowing is a pretty convenient agency to bargain amongst all that Equus caballus dung. It’s probable your equine friends are each leaving xv or to a greater extent than deposits inwards your paddock each twenty-four hr catamenia in addition to no Equus caballus possessor needs telling that it builds upwards at an unholy rate.
Unfortunately, the humble harrow is to a greater extent than frequently than non move of the worm problem, non the solution.
Harrowing smashes upwards the dung in addition to distributes it evenly almost the paddock. Unfortunately, it distributes the parasites as well.
In rattling hot climates, the breaking upwards of dung inwards this agency tin testify effective. It exposes eggs in addition to larvae to the vehement oestrus in addition to Sun which tin kill them. But inwards a province such as New Zealand, amongst its temperate in addition to sub-tropical climate, the summers may non live hot plenty to attain the job.
If you lot experience that harrowing is the exclusively feasible solution to your “dung burden”, in addition to hence attain it on the hottest in addition to sunniest twenty-four hr catamenia your local conditions tin muster.
Keep the horses off the paddock for at to the lowest degree 3 weeks – longer if you lot tin deal it – to laissez passer on the warm conditions an chance to kill off as many larvae as possible (remember, infective strongyle larvae tin exclusively move inwards pasture for a few weeks inwards warm in addition to dry out weather).
Never harrow a paddock when horses are yet inwards it.
Harrowing is an fifty-fifty worse strategy inwards the cooler months as the strongyle larvae volition live able to move for several months, and, cheers to your harrowing, volition live evenly distributed almost the paddock waiting to infect horses.
In price of parasite control, the best course of report is picking upwards the dung in addition to composting it. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 good maintained compost oestrus should generate plenty oestrus for long plenty to kill parasite eggs in addition to larvae.
Normal composting temperatures are good to a higher house those needed to bargain amongst your arch nemesis, strongyle larvae.
Composting is non only almost heaping your collected dung inwards an unsightly pile. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few uncomplicated steps volition ensure a healthy, odour-free compost heap that produces smashing fabric to furnish to your garden or fifty-fifty pasture. (See Composting your Equus caballus dung)
Picking upwards dung helps yesteryear removing the dung containing the eggs in addition to larvae from the pasture. Getting it off when it’s fresh is best – expect no to a greater extent than than 3 days – as roughly larvae spell wriggle their agency from the dung in addition to accept upwards residence inwards the soil.
Horses are averse to eating grass nigh their droppings, hence picking upwards the manure volition besides ultimately improve the percent of a paddock where horses are happy to graze.
Your dung-removal programme volition live fifty-fifty to a greater extent than effective if you lot tin deal to alternative it upwards earlier falls of rain, which assistance larvae deed from dung piles into the soil or on to forage. Birds that tear apart dung pile inwards search of partly digested grain are besides playing a move inwards egg in addition to larvae distribution.
There is besides a attain goodness inwards beingness able to close upwards pastures for a fourth dimension over the warmer months, when the metabolism of infective strongyle larvae volition live using upwards their stored energy. Once they used it up, they die. If you’ve got the acreage in addition to the time, it’s a sensible strategy.
Given that strongyles tin agree out for exclusively a few weeks inwards warmer weather, you lot tin sensibly employ this strategy amongst your hay paddock.
Horse owners that graze cattle in addition to sheep cause got roughly other weapon inwards their arsenal.
Parasites are adapted to their target species, hence for a moo-cow or sheep to consume the infective larvae that comport upon horses is a decease judgement for the parasite. Horses, of course, furnish the favour to sheep in addition to cattle as they graze the same pasture.
This is especially effective against strongyles, but you lot tin employ a brace of extra strategies for maximum effect.
It is wise to larn out the pasture unoccupied for a brace of weeks spell the eggs mature (the fourth dimension varies, depending upon the ambient temperature). After a brace of weeks of favourable weather, the grass volition cause got come upwards away in addition to infective strongyle larvae volition live parked on the grass waiting yesteryear the ingested. At this indicate you lot innovate the cattle or sheep, who volition ingest them in addition to kill them.
The larvae volition move along to emerge in addition to the cattle in addition to sheep volition move along to consume them, hence graze the paddock for as long as possible.
If possible, exercise mature stock for this clean-up work, as they are far less probable to ship a heavy burden of Trichostrongylus, a parasite capable of infecting horse, sheep in addition to cattle.
Once again, whatsoever strategies that cut the issue of infective larvae inwards a pasture volition comport upon the re-infection charge per unit of measurement of horses.
It is besides advisable to feed horses off the ground, using buckets for hard-feed in addition to hay nets or hay feeders for forage. The to a greater extent than a Equus caballus eats off the ground, the less its exposure to ground-based larvae.
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First published on Horsetalk.co.nz inwards February, 2009
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