Animal Health

Clearly, leaving animals untreated where animals are under stress from parasites and no effective organically accredited treatment is available is unacceptable from a welfare perspective. Most organic accreditation systems provide for the use of nonorganic accredited compounds to treat animals under stress from parasites without compromising the overall accreditation of the
property. These provisions usually include conditions that the treated animals:

Animals have had to coexist with parasites since they first walked the face of the earth; under natural conditions parasitic burdens are low. However, since domestication modern animals which are now farmed intensively particularly on small farms suffer from increased parasitic burdens.

Strategic Barbers Pole Worm Treatment
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For sheep producers in grazing areas where Barber’s Pole Worm are active, NEW AVOMEC DUEL drench offers dual action parasite control with the benefit of: