Posted by Dalice on October 20, 2002 at 04:54:31:
An old memory has come to my mind. I remember my uncle worming his hunting dogs with a penny. He said it killed the worms. That the dog would pass the penny with worms wrapped all around it. (I hope no one is snacking as they read this.) Have any of you heard this before? As I read more about the role of copper in helping goats control worms this now makes more sense to me. Not that I am going out with a roll of pennies next time I worm my goats, but thought this was kind of a validation of copper being a "wormer". Once again, I am not advocating feeding pennies to animals, I hear copper toxicity is not easitly reversible.... Dalice