ArkieGold
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Re:Can I feed this to my worms? - 2009/05/10 08:30
"Veterinary medicines can persist in manure
for days (e.g., tylosin in pig slurry, penicillin in
poultry manure, nicarbazin in poultry manure) to
months (e.g., ivermectin, chlortetracycline, amprolium)
(22–24).
Earthworms appear to be sensitive to parasiticides,"
http://ec.europa.eu/research/endocrine/pdf/eravmis.pdf
Amprolium as parasiticide...
Amprolium
Bi 2-4 ml of 9.6% solution/gal water for 5 days (Ritchie and
Harrison, 1997)
Bo 5 mg/kg BW daily in feed for 21 days prophylaxis (Schultz,
1989)
10 mg/kg BW daily in feed for 5 days for treatment (Schultz,
1989)
D 100-200 mg/kg BW PO sid in food or water for 7-10 days
(Kinsell, 1986)
F 19 mg/kg BW daily PO sid or in drinking water (Bell, 1994)
Fi 10 ppm bath for 7-10 days (Harms, 1996)
http://dcminfo.wustl.edu/pdf/PDF/Text.pdf
It has always been my understanding that medicated feeds or manures derived from medicated livestock should not be used in vermiculture.
My particular project involves medicated manure from humans. Medications and other non desirable substances to say the least! Many of these are bacterially broken down in the wastewater treatment process but broken down to what? My thoughts are, as long as it doesn't kill them, the worms are ingesting things that are bad to us and our environment and passing along a thing that is less damaging if not outright clean and good for the environment. More testing needs to be done.
But to simply answer the question in the original post, I would say no, you can't feed it to your worms with positive results you hope to acheive in just getting your worms to grow and multiply.
Post edited by: ArkieGold, at: 2009/05/10 08:37
Arkie's Vermiculture |
i'm all for the scientific approach but you will get a quicker answer if you take a dozen or so worms place them in a small container put some bedding keeping it at the proper moisture level, add a table spoon of that feed in question you will soon enough have your answer
