mC HULL 10,434 Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 On 28/04/2020 at 18:15, SheepChaser said: Right just to clear it up - dog faeces can transfer both neospora (a type of gastro intestinal parasite) and toxaemic abortion to cattle and sheep. Not always obviously, but it can and does. Both cause abortion of lambs / calves and the first one also causes carcass condemnation at the slaughterhouse (ie I get it all the way to slaughter, and it gets binned and I don’t get paid). So that’s why farmers don’t like folk letting dogs shit all over the field. Regular worming can help with a lot of that. Political correctness great isn’t it lol Farmers I no all have dogs cows and sheep I’ve never seen any bag and bin it lol Wired sheep fields with miles a foot paths round them full a horse shit what parasites they putting into soil for sheep to eat any grazing animal will have more parasites then a dog has neospora for a dog to have it it has come from the cow in the first place lol the dog gets it from the cow afterbirth discharge etc then when the dog shits the cows graze the get it back so the moral of the story is if the farmers cleaned up made sure no afterbirth all the stuff is cleaned properly poor dog owners that can loose pups to neospora wouldn’t be taking the blame for farmers getting hit for a few hundred quid in the pocket lol 1 Quote Link to post
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