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Small ruminants
Small ruminants are sheep, goats, guanacos, including alpacas and llamas, and deer. Gastrointestinal parasites remain the biggest challenge of organic small ruminant animal husbandry. This can severely impair the health and well-being of small ruminants and can even cause death. This risk is even higher in organic husbandry, as grazing is obligatory and preventative anthelmintic treatments are restricted. There are many preventative measures used to reduce the parasite pressure such as mixed species grazing, diversified pasture composition, and the use of certain forage plants such as chicory have proven useful, for example.
These approaches, and many more, related to organic small ruminant husbandry, are featured here.
Tools
| Title | Issuing organisation | Project | Year of release | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A basket of options to control worms in organic sheep production systems (RELACS... | FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture , IFOAM Organics Europe , SRUC - Scotland's Rural College | 2022 | 5 (1) | |
| Bio-étagères – Virtual "shelves" | ABioDoc - French Documentation Centre specialised... | 2021 | ||
| Cover crop grazing by sheep: successful partnerships between sheep and arable... | CRA-W - Walloon Agricultural Research Centre | Diverimpacts | 2022 | |
| Faecal egg counts to improve worm control in organic sheep farming (RELACS... | FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture , IFOAM Organics Europe , SRUC - Scotland's Rural College , Soil Association Certification , Soil Association Scotland | RELACS | 2020 | |
| Fodder trees for organic dairy goats | CCBT - Coordination centre for applied research... , Wim Govaerts , Odisee - University of Applied Sciences , Inagro | 2022 | ||
| Rapeseed regrowth and white clover cover crop valorisation through sheep grazing... | CRA-W - Walloon Agricultural Research Centre | Diverimpacts | 2022 | |
| Thematic newsletters from Abiodoc | ABioDoc - French Documentation Centre specialised... | 2021 |
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