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Sgun

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worms frozen ground

« on: January 20, 2016, 09:22 »

Anyone know if the latest cold spell will have killed roundworm eggs on the soil? It was frozen hard for over a week down to about a centimetre. Online it just says a "hard and prolonged frost" will kill them. Rather not lime if I don't have to, the ground has been rested from the hens also for 4 weeks and the hens wormed in the meantime.

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Re: worms frozen ground

« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2016, 11:18 »

I just found this which answers my own question - no, the frost will not have destroyed the eggs

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03079459808419355

Interesting reading.

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