Are Worms Harmed By Wormers In Dog Pooh

[sandgrubber]

There have been a few recent posts that have touched on the question of whether wormers make dog pooh toxic to worms, eg, in a worm farm, or in the garden.

I was told that the wormers make the pooh toxic for several weeks, making it unreasonable to use worm farm to process dog pooh. I have never seen any real evidence that this is true.

Does anyone have hard evidence, either way?

[Just Midol]

Logic.

Edited December 26, 2008 by Lord Midol

[Golden Rules]

See, logic to me says that everything in the gut is filtered and all the poisons (and nutrients) are absorbed before the remains are expelled. I'd be interested to hear firm evidence either way on this as well.

Wouldn't it be great to make a good fertiliser from dog poo?!

[Guest belgian.blue]

Would the chemicals be passed on to another dog who eats the poop of a dog that has just been treated?

Ivy has taken to eating my exs dog poop .. she gets fed crap food, which passed right through Ivy and causes her tummy to go loose. This dog was also just treated for worms etc and Ivy has eaten most of what was out there as my ex is a lazy SOB and never does a pick up.

I'm naturally going to have to start when I get home and pick it all up before I let Ivy out there! We're house sitting now so there is sure to be a good collection when we return home

[Just Midol]

See, logic to me says that everything in the gut is filtered and all the poisons (and nutrients) are absorbed before the remains are expelled. I'd be interested to hear firm evidence either way on this as well.

Wouldn't it be great to make a good fertiliser from dog poo?!

Guess that's another way to look at it

But if you eat a stone, it comes out of your arse. Not everything can be filtered

[MolassesLass]

Seems to be a commonly held belief on the internet:

What Not To Put In Your Worm Farm

* Avoid meat scraps as they can produce offensive odours and attract vermin

* Avoid fresh manures as the tend to contain active vermicides, instead use aged manures

* If you have a pet poo only worm farm, never use dog manure when you are worming your dog

- Source

BTW, we don't pick up other people's dogs poo for one very good reason; you never know if the dogs have been wormed recently, dropping a wormer-laced dropping in the farm would kill off the producers

- Source

Please note: do not feed worms manure for 3-5 days following medication, particularly worming treatment.

- Source

[sandgrubber]

Logic could have it either way . .. the stuff may or may not be detoxified in passing through a dog's gut. And assuming the wormers are still toxic when they come out the other end, for how many days after the dog is wormed is the pooh toxic?

As for people making declarations about what you can and can't put in the worm farm . . . are they just churning the same rumors around in the rumor mill? I don't have much faith in opinions.

I was hoping for evidence based answers when I posted this . . . . maybe no one has done the experiments????

[Just Midol]

Logic could have it either way . .. the stuff may or may not be detoxified in passing through a dog's gut. And assuming the wormers are still toxic when they come out the other end, for how many days after the dog is wormed is the pooh toxic?

As for people making declarations about what you can and can't put in the worm farm . . . are they just churning the same rumors around in the rumor mill? I don't have much faith in opinions.

I was hoping for evidence based answers when I posted this . . . . maybe no one has done the experiments????

Yeah, logic could go either way but do you want to risk killing your worms?

Perhaps split your worms into two and do an experiment?