Calling all SWNY Sheep and Goat Producers! Whole Farm Internal Parasite IPM Project

Project Goals:

Understand your farm's internal parasite pressure

Determine which animals are susceptible/resistant

Develop a customized IPM program for your farm

Understand the benefits of an IPM program

To participate in the project you must meet the following criteria:

• Produce sheep or goat products as part of your farming enterprise and have at least 20 animals.
• Be located in Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, or Steuben counties.
• Willingness to have every individual in your herd/flock FAMACHA tested, 5-point checked, and have feces collected up to seven times in 2025.
• Have the capacity to safely restrain individual animals.
• Each animal must have individual identification.
• Use conventional dewormers, and either currently deworm using a drenching protocol or be open to using a drenching protocol.
• Must not be using copper oxide wire particles.
• Be willing to deworm individual animals based on recommendations from the project team.
• Must be available for 4 hours the week of May 12-16 or May 19-21, and again for May 26-28 or June 2-6. A third recheck will be scheduled for August 2025.

Services offered by this project are free for our producers. Consultations and testing will be performed by Amy Barkley, Livestock Specialist, and Jess Waltemyer, Cornell's Pro-Livestock Small Ruminant Specialist. For more information, contact Amy Barkley at amb544@cornell.edu or (716) 640-0844.

This material is based upon work supported by USDA/NIFA under award 2024-70027-23540.