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I really can't tell you an exact price per ton, as freight plays a big part in the cost.
I will figure it out per cost per head using Vigortone mineral in our area.
What you do, is take all the mineral away for a couple of days before
you put the dewormer mineral out. Have plenty of stations and just leave
the dewormer mineral out til it's all gone. Sometimes it lasts days, sometimes
a couple of weeks. But if a cow takes a bite of mineral on Monday and none
til Thursday, you are still killing worms.
One bag treats 50,000#. In our area it is about $3.40/per head to deworm
a 1000# cow
AND provide mineral for the duration of the time it takes the cows to eat the
mineral. It's an easy and effective way to deworm at the right time, and
you don't have to gather the cattle to do it. We have seen excellent results.
With yearlings, you can visually see the difference in a couple of weeks.
When the calves are dewormed in mid June in our area, they weigh more
in the fall, the cows milk better, concieve better, etc.
When doing strategic deworming in mid June here, we figure what the cows
weigh, what the calves weigh (they will eat it too) and what the bulls weigh
that are with the cows. Then we know how many bags to put out.
Interesting story, we have a customer that backgrounds his own calves
at home. Steers and heifers are run together until turn-out time. Then they
are put in different pastures. He called and said one bunch of yearlings didn't look as good as they should and would we run a fecal, so we did, on both
bunches. One bunch came back relatively clean, the other were loaded with
various worms. The only difference was the pastures they ran in in the
spring! So we dewormed that bunch with the mineral, ran the fecal again,
ane we had cleaned them up. No surprise there.
One other thing I thought of, the avermectin products DO NOT get a worm
called Nemotadaris. That worm is found in young cattle and can kill them.
When we run a fecal and this worm shows up, everyone gets pretty excited
about getting those cattle dewormed and fast. We didn't always have this
worm in Montana, but because of lack of competition (the avermectins
will not kill Nemotadris) they are showing up more and more. i
If you run fecals, find a place to send them to, as to Dr. Bliss or we use
Dr. Gene White in Lincoln, Ne, too--don't have your local vet run the fecals
unless he has a Wisconsin spinner. Most vets use something that detects
worms in dogs and won't show bovine parasites. I think that is why
we thought for so many years that we didn't have worms in the north.
That was false. We do. And I was a hard sell in the beginning, but I've
been involved with running enough fecals, that I am a believer in deworming
cattle.
Hope this helps!
I will figure it out per cost per head using Vigortone mineral in our area.
What you do, is take all the mineral away for a couple of days before
you put the dewormer mineral out. Have plenty of stations and just leave
the dewormer mineral out til it's all gone. Sometimes it lasts days, sometimes
a couple of weeks. But if a cow takes a bite of mineral on Monday and none
til Thursday, you are still killing worms.
One bag treats 50,000#. In our area it is about $3.40/per head to deworm
a 1000# cow
AND provide mineral for the duration of the time it takes the cows to eat the
mineral. It's an easy and effective way to deworm at the right time, and
you don't have to gather the cattle to do it. We have seen excellent results.
With yearlings, you can visually see the difference in a couple of weeks.
When the calves are dewormed in mid June in our area, they weigh more
in the fall, the cows milk better, concieve better, etc.
When doing strategic deworming in mid June here, we figure what the cows
weigh, what the calves weigh (they will eat it too) and what the bulls weigh
that are with the cows. Then we know how many bags to put out.
Interesting story, we have a customer that backgrounds his own calves
at home. Steers and heifers are run together until turn-out time. Then they
are put in different pastures. He called and said one bunch of yearlings didn't look as good as they should and would we run a fecal, so we did, on both
bunches. One bunch came back relatively clean, the other were loaded with
various worms. The only difference was the pastures they ran in in the
spring! So we dewormed that bunch with the mineral, ran the fecal again,
ane we had cleaned them up. No surprise there.
One other thing I thought of, the avermectin products DO NOT get a worm
called Nemotadaris. That worm is found in young cattle and can kill them.
When we run a fecal and this worm shows up, everyone gets pretty excited
about getting those cattle dewormed and fast. We didn't always have this
worm in Montana, but because of lack of competition (the avermectins
will not kill Nemotadris) they are showing up more and more. i
If you run fecals, find a place to send them to, as to Dr. Bliss or we use
Dr. Gene White in Lincoln, Ne, too--don't have your local vet run the fecals
unless he has a Wisconsin spinner. Most vets use something that detects
worms in dogs and won't show bovine parasites. I think that is why
we thought for so many years that we didn't have worms in the north.
That was false. We do. And I was a hard sell in the beginning, but I've
been involved with running enough fecals, that I am a believer in deworming
cattle.
Hope this helps!
