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Can liver fluke survive in silage?

Liver fluke cysts are shed onto pasture from infected mud snails and we know they can survive for many months given the right conditions, but can they survive in silage?

Katie Jones

Editor, Farmers Guardian and Dairy Farmer

24 April 2020 鈥� 4 min read

Liver fluke cysts are shed onto pasture from infected mud snails and we know they can survive for many months given the right conditions, but can they survive in silage? A research project, carried...

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