Department issues Nematodirus advice to farmers with hatching at peak

The disease Nematodirosis is a severe parasitic disease of lambs six to 12 weeks of age.

This disease can be best prevented by keeping the current year’s lambs off any pasture that was grazed by lambs or young calves (which can be carriers of infection) in the previous year.

The Department of Agriculture has issued a Nematodirus warning as hatching season is currently at its peak.

Each spring, the department, in collaboration with Met Éireann, UCD and Teagasc, advises farmers of the predicted risk of disease, chiefly in lambs, caused by the roundworm Nematodirus battus.