Vertical migration of infective larvae of equine strongyles in sandy clay loam.

The migration of infective strongyle larvae through sandy clay loam soil was determined by evaluating the burial of horse dung as a method of reducing parasitism in horses. Equine feces containing 325 strongyle eggs/g of feces were buried at depths of 2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10.0, 12.5, 15.0, 20.0, and 30.0 cm below the pasture surface in sandy clay loam soil. Herbage samples were taken periodically from above the buried feces and were analyzed to determine the maximum vertical migration of infective larvae. The greatest distance of migration was 20 cm which occurred 31 days after the feces were buried. However, the number of larvae reaching the herbage from this depth represented only 0.0004% of the eggs initially buried.

• Publication year

  1984

• Venue

  American Journal of Veterinary Research

• Publication date

  1984-03-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2460/ajvr.1984.45.03.575PMID 6711988
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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