Tow And Collect WA

Sally at Fortunate Farms has just listed her Tow and Collect Mini 700 for sale on Market Place. She bought it May 2024 and shortly afterwards she change her business model with agisters, which made the machine obsolete. Its hardly been used and is in great condition, so if you know anyone chasing the best manure+ pick-up machine on the market get onto it. Her asking price is a steal at just over AU$4000. I have not seen it since handing the machine over but am happy to give advice to any purchaser. My identical machine that is used on my property is 6 years old, lives outdoors, get used everyday picking up after horses, ho**ey nuts and anything else you put in front of it, plus gets used commercially and is still powering along....

I find there’s intrinsically something more enjoyable in seeing ho**ey nuts disappear into the hopper bin, than sweeping up horse poo….probably because I find ho**ey nuts are annoying? This was after a 10 minute drive around.

Virbac Area Sales Manager-Equine-SA,WA, NT, Celia Lecumberri, is paying me a visit on this coming Wednesday around 11am. She's dropping off the latest hard copy version of the Virbac Worming Guide and the the handy Worming Wheels, that help you keep track of where you are in the testing/worming cycle. She's happy to run a question and answer session for anyone that is interested and wants to attend. Typically, if you ever manage to stump a Virbac rep with a question, they get straight onto the phone to one of their scientists and get the answer. I'm located in Cardup and if you want to come, let me know and I'll put the kettle on. I have my own T&C Mini 700 there if your curious and ever wanted to kick the tyres on one......why you can even have a go tidying up in one of my paddocks???

Horse owner was telling me recently that they managed parasite levels in her herd by dragging a gate behind a quad bike and routine worming … sound familiar? Firstly dragging anything is going to flatten and spread manure which will get rid of obvious piles of manure, but is it stopping reinfestation from any parasites within the manure…. The answer is no! Breaking up a fresh manure pile on a hot summers day is a potential death sentence for any L1 (early) stage strongyle, when at its most vulnerable and before it’s started to gorge on microbial and bacterial matter within the manure. Less so when it has molten to become an L2 larvae, but if the paddock is strewn with scattered manure from you spreading it, then the process of continued gorging its made that more easier. But the time the larvae has developed to L3 (infective) it no longer can eat and is ready to break from from the confines of the manure anyway, so all spreading is doing is make that task easier for the larvae. In mild warm conditions with a dose of humidity the speed of development from L1 to L3 could be as little as 3 days. …… As for routine worming, unless it’s backed up by f***l egg counts (FEC) you can only be guessing if the dose was correct, if the dose worked or in the very worst scenarios if your animals are harbouring parasites that have developed resistance to some of the commercially available chemicals… or the very least as is the case with one of my horses he never needs worming as he never presents with any egg burden shown in a FEC…. therefore for the sake of a precautionary FEC at $9.50 I’m saving on the cost of routinely administering a wormer

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When's the best time to get manure collected and off the paddock....Best answer: as soon as you can. There are environmental factors that might govern your urgency though and in some cases, you might not even want to bother. Mild temperatures and moisture are going to give any Small Strongles eggs in a manure pile, the best conditions to hatch quickly and develop into infective larvae. The stages of development begin with eggs being passed into the environment in f***s from the host. If conditions are right the eggs can hatch withing as little as three days and become what is known as L1 larvae, that later develop into a more robust form known as L2. Both these stages exist and feed off bacteria and organic material within the manure pile. Once developed into the L3 stage they are known as infective larvae and are free to migrate from the manure pile. At this stage they develop a protective coating over there body that seals them into a hardened sheath that also covers their mouths, so from this point on their energy supply is limited to what they have consumed up to this point. Survival could be up to 6 months but a study that was conducted in Japan shows some interesting facts. Development and survival are very much dependent on the environment the initial egg deposits are made into. Rich moist peat soils give the highest probability of eggs surviving to infective larvae stage and at the other end of the spectrum dry sandy soils give the worst. So if you have moist, peat soils, with healthy pasture you actually need to be more vigilant removing manure than if you have dry sandy soils with sparse vegetive cover. Cold weather will always slow down the development but during summer we do not leave removing manure longer then every 3 days.