Ok, could somebody please give me a hand here?
From the diagram below, if an infected sheep passes worm eggs, these hatch and grow into the infective L3 stage larvae in 4-10 days (maybe a little longer in the UK - the diagram comes from an
Aussie website ).
So, if "most L3 larvae die within three (summer) months to six (winter) months, with some living {and remaining infective} for over a year", surely they'll just sit in the pasture waiting until the sheep come round on their next rotation and eat them!?
I totally get how rotations of 6 months or more would be really effective in worm control, but that's not possible for most smallholders.
So, if we can only rotate our pasture on a 4-8 week cycle say, does that actually help with parasite control at all?