124—Lancaster Fannins, Saturday, June 30,1979
External parasites on sheep explained at
By KENDACE BORRY
' DOYLESTOWN - Several
different kinds of external
parasites can be found on
sheep in Pennsylvania. That
was the conclusion of Mike
Fournier, Bucks County
Extension agent, who spoke
at the recent sheep seminar
held at Delaware Valley
College.
He told that the presence
of these parasites can cause
a large economic loss by
damaging wool and causing
a general unthriftness in
sheep. But, he added, for
tunately for owners, most
external parasites of sheep
can be easily controlled with
insecticides.
Sheep Keds, often called
sheep ticks, are actually a
wingless fly, he related. The
pest, can be as large as V*
Walker
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Congressman Bob Walker
(R-16-Pa.) last week in
troduced a bill designed to
encourage the production of
liquid synthetic fuels.
“My bill is aimed at
moving us a step closer
toward energy in
dependence. It enables us to
rely more on our own
technology and resources
and less on foreign imports
over which we have no
control,” Walker said.
He noted, “Short term
technology is available for
production of liquid syn
thetic fuels from four
sources of supply, oil shale,
tar sands, coal liquid
fication and bio-mass,
commonly known as
gasohol. With long term
planning as our goal there
would be both incentives for
compliance and penalties for
oil companies which did not
take advantage of that
technology.”
Under Walker’s proposal,
011 companies would be
required to produce a min
imum of five per cent of
liquid syn-fuels by 1985. That
figure would be increased to
12 per cent in 1990 and to 20
per cent by the year 2000.
Failure to comply would
result in a fine of $lOO,OOO a
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inch in length. It spends its
entire life cycle on the sheep
and gets its nourishment
from continually biting and
sucking blood from the host
animal.
Keds will leave a residue
m the wool and this will
make the fleece less
valuable. A heavy in
festation of keds will cause
sheep to show signs of
irritation and unthriftiness
as these sheep generally will
not grow as fast as unm
fested sheep.
The problem of keds is
easily controlled by dipping,
spraying or dusting with an
approved insecticide. To
treat most effectively, one
should treat soon after
shearing. Usually, one
treatment per year will
control keds.
There are three different
proposes synthetic fuels bill
day for each oil company
failing to meet the
requirement. By following
the mandate of the law, tax
credits and depreciation
allowances would be
available for qualified fuel
producing facilities.
It would be up to the
Co-op couples
conference to be held
NEWVILLE - Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Yost, of
Newville, have been selected
to attend a special Co-op
Couples Conference, July 17
and 18, in Chambersburg,
sponsored by the Penn
sylvania Association of
Fanner Cooperatives.
The two will join with 40
other young couples from
throughout the Com
monwealth take part m the
two-day event. Sessions will
be held at the Holiday Inn,
Chambersburg Community
Park, and on two Franklin
County dairy farms.
The two are sponsored by
Cumberland-Perry Co-op
Council which serves farmer
members and communities
in this region.
At the conference, they
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species of lice which can
infect sheep. They too spend
their entire life cycle on the
sheep and will not last long
when removed from the host
animal.
A sheep with a heavy lice
infestation will produce poor
quality wool and show a loss
in weight gains. The sheep
will spend a great deal of
time rubbing against fence
posts or trees. The control
methods used for keds will
also control lice.
Wool maggots come from
any one of several species of
blow flies which lay then
eggs on soiled wool,
generally around an open
sore. When the eggs hatch
the maggots feed on the wet
wool near the skin and this
will cause the wool to loosen
and become putrid.
Sometimes the open sores
Energy Secretary to
determine if current
prohibitive laws at the
federal, state or local level
prevented new production. If
so, the Secretary would have
the opportunity to modify
any law which stands m the
way of synthetic fuels
production. Under no cir
will share facts, opinions,
and insights about
cooperatives and their role
in the strength of the
business enterprise system.
In addition, the two will
have an opportunity to meet
others to discuss ways in
which they can play a vital
leadership role in
cooperative community
affairs.
Conference participants
will join with cooperative
leaders of this area to relate
current issues vital to farm
leaders, cooperatives, and
the community. They also
will hear about the
educational P.A.F.C. and
Penn State programs that
are benefiting rural
leaders.
that become infested with
the maggots also become in
fected with a bacteria and
the sheep can die from this
secondary infection.
Sheep with wool maggot
infestations tend to lay along
fence lines and in shaded
areas with their heads
outstretched on the ground.
Sheep with maggots should
be sheared and the infested
areas coated with one of
many smears: Smear 62
(diphenylamine); EQ-335
(lindane and pine tar); or 5
per cent ronnel (Korlan)
smear.
Psoroptic mange, also
known as scabies, is caused
by small mites that are also
invisible to the naked eye.
These mites live on the
sheep’s serum and can cause
intense irritation. Sheep
infested with mange mites
cumstances would the
Secretary have the authority
to waive those laws,
however.
The Pennsylvania
Republican said, “Currently
the U.S. is importing ap
proximately 50 per cent of its
fuel from overseas. Con
sequently the American
people suffer whenever
those foreign countries find
it advantageous to curtail
supplies. We need energy
independence not only for
national security reasons,
but to bring back normalcy
to life on a day to day basis.
Walker concluded by
saying, “This is a realistic
bill that provides the
necessary independence and
requirements needed to
produce new energy supplies
that will meet the energy
demands of our country.
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will do a great deal of rub
bing and the affected areas
generally form scaly lesions
or scabs.
Sheep mange is a repor
table disease which means
that any case of scabies
must be reported to state
and federal authorities.
Head bots or nose bots are
caused by a bee-like fly
about the size of a common
horse fly. The fly deposits its
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eggs on the nostrils of the
sheep. The maggots then
work their way up the
nostrils of the sheep causing
a snotty nose and sinus
problems. Sheep affected
with nose hots tend to go off
feed, sneeze, and show a
constant nasal charge.
For further information
about external parasites in
sheep, one can contact his
county Extension agent.
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