Compound Rids Chicken Houses
WASHINGTON, D.C. A
compound registered to control
cattle and swine parasites can be
put into chicken feed to halt a
mealworm that wreckes the insu
lation in modem poultry houses, a
U.S. Department of Agriculture
researcher has found.
“Just two parts per million of
ivermectin killed nearly 100 per
cent of lesser mealworms and
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their adult form, the darkling bee
tle, in five-week tests involving
600 broiler chickens,” said animal
scientist Richard W. Miller of
USDA’s Agricultural Research
Service.
“So far, we have found no
residues in the chickens’ livers, so
there shouldn’t be any in the
meat,” he said; The liver acts as a
blood filter that traps foreign
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chemicals entering the body.
He said the mealworm is not an
internal parasite of chickens, but
would consume the compound
when it eats spilled chicken feed.
“Although mealworms have
been implicated in the spread of
some diseases or parasites among
chickens,” Miller said, “they
cause damage primarily when, as
larvae, they burrow into and
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Of Insulation
destroy the insulation of chicken
houses. The loss of insulation
reduces the ability to control the
temperature of the houses. This
could result in less efficient
growth of the birds.”
Figures aren’t available on dol
lar losses from damaged insula
tion, but “a recent*nationwide
survey of broiler producers puts
the lesser mealworm at the top of
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the list of problems that poultry
farmers want controlled,” said
Stephen Pretanik, director of sci
ence and technology at the
National Broiler Council.
Miller said more research on
ivermectin is needed before it can
be registered with the Food and
Drug Administration for use in
chicken houses. It is currently
approved for use as an injection to
control stomach and intestinal
roundworms in cattle, swine and
horses. It also is used as a once-a
month treatment in dogs to pre
vent heartworm infections.
“While putting ivermectin into
feed would be convenient for
fanners,” Miller said, “we plan to
test other methods such as baits
and sprays to find the most effi
cient way to dispense the
compound.”
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