A Novel Application of an Anthelmintic Mixture for Use against Gastrointestinal Parasites of Red Deer (Cervus elaphus)

Table 2

Abomasal worm burdens from weaner mixed sex red deer individually identified into untreated and treated groups. The latter group was dosed per os with Exodus Pour-On Oxfen C Plus 50/50 mixture at 1 ml/5 kg bodyweight 11 days prior to slaughter.

Tag number	Haemonchus	Ostertagia	T. axei
Untreated group
322	0	1100	500
356	0	1900	700
535	0	2200	100
583	0	1200	100
712	0	4800	100
803	0	4200	30
AM	0	2,566.7	300
GM	0	2,193.2	217.5
Treated group
305	0	0	0
401	0	0	0
474	0	0	0
713	0	0	0
755	0	0	0
844	0	0	0
AM	0	0	0
GM	0	0	0
%Red AM		>99.9	>99.9
%Red GM		>99.9	>99.9
value		0.0000	0.0000

%Red AM = percentage reduction of arithmetic mean; %Red GM = percentage reduction of geometric mean. to untreated based on ANOVA using log transformed (count + 1) values.