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Haemonchus contortus, known as Barber's Pole worm, is an intestinal parasite of Goats and Sheep. It causes severe anaemia, oedema and lethargy and can cause the death of the animal. The parasite thrives in warm wet climates, it is a blood sucking roundworm that pierces the abomasal mucosa causing blood and protein loss. Each worm can produce up to 5000 eggs per day and these eggs can survive on the pasture for a long time and the larvae can survive over winter. Basically the sheep or goat graze the pasture and pick up the eggs or larvae these then travel to the abomasum where they attach, grow into adult worms and produce more eggs which are passed in the faeces onto the ground to infect more animals.

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