General sheep thread

Hagimalone

She got first injection yesterday, she was in at night & out during the day

Hagimalone

Still no different this morning so I took the chance & loaded her up & put her in the same field as the rest of comrades & she started eating within a couple of minutes, so, so far so good, looks likes she missed her comrades.

connolly18

lads i have a lamb with strawberry footrot anyone got any good cures for it

farawaygrass

Anyone having to dose 3-4 week old lambs yet? Batch of triplets getting very dirty and the main batch has a few starting too. Bought arrest last weekend and plan to do them tomorrow.

sheepfarmer92

farawaygrass wrote: »

Anyone having to dose 3-4 week old lambs yet? Batch of triplets getting very dirty and the main batch has a few starting too. Bought arrest last weekend and plan to do them tomorrow.

Yea we have dosed all the older lambs which are 3 to 6 wks old this week, did them with albex some were getting a bit dry of themselves so thought it best to do them

rangler1

farawaygrass wrote: »

Anyone having to dose 3-4 week old lambs yet? Batch of triplets getting very dirty and the main batch has a few starting too. Bought arrest last weekend and plan to do them tomorrow.

Would 3 - 4wk old lambs be eating enough grass to get worms....more like the age for coccidiocis.
I'll be dosing 6wk old lambs this week

farawaygrass

sorry I have to correct my earlier post-the oldest lambs are 6 weeks since yesterday and so 3 to six weeks old, mainly 4-6 weeks. I see them picking at grass already.

Lambman

Wat do most off u use for in the first dose.. nearly be as handy or even handier till inject rather than oral dose?

rangler1

Lambman wrote: »

Wat do most off u use for in the first dose.. nearly be as handy or even handier till inject rather than oral dose?

cheapest white dose I can get, I'm only dosing for nematodirus and they're not resistant to white doses yet. There'd be no stomach worms at this stage in young lambs

razor8

farawaygrass wrote: »

Anyone having to dose 3-4 week old lambs yet? Batch of triplets getting very dirty and the main batch has a few starting too. Bought arrest last weekend and plan to do them tomorrow.

Very doubtful that's worms. More likely nemo or coccidiosis

cattle man

Took dung lambs off lambs last week lambs aged 4-6 weeks old. Some lambs scouring bad enough.

Results we're coccidiosis present and also nematodirous 50eggs per gram. And them sample were taken last Wednesday.

After dosing everything with vecoxan on Monday and white drench today.

I didn't expect worms to be a problem yet.

charolais0153

we done them with a white dose on tuesday, majority of teh lambs would be around 6-7 weeks. a few were getting dirty

rangler1

cattle man wrote: »

Took dung lambs off lambs last week lambs aged 4-6 weeks old. Some lambs scouring bad enough.

Results we're coccidiosis present and also nematodirous 50eggs per gram. And them sample were taken last Wednesday.

After dosing everything with vecoxan on Monday and white drench today.

I didn't expect worms to be a problem yet.

Nemo comes from 5 weeks on, coccidiosis a bit earlier, both can do serious harm to thrive

IH784man

Will endospec do for dosing lambs,I've only a handful from a couple days old to 4/5 weeks so I'll do them in a month or so

charolais0153

Few lambs that are lame but have no scald .... Caught 4 and one had scald and the others didn't however they had bits of dried dirt stuck to inside of hoof

Bullocks

I'm disgusted with myself this evening , I was working early this morning and just threw a quick eye on the ewes . I noticed one on her own looking a bit off form but her lambs were sucking so I thought I'd check her later when I finished. Got caught late and when I came home she was dead (she had a load of foam around her mouth and the vet reckoned probably magnesium would have saved her )
She has two nice lambs almost a month old , I dont know how easy they will take to the bottle but how much/often would they want feeding at this stage ?

Buford T. Justice XIX

Bullocks wrote: »

I'm disgusted with myself this evening , I was working early this morning and just threw a quick eye on the ewes . I noticed one on her own looking a bit off form but her lambs were sucking so I thought I'd check her later when I finished. Got caught late and when I came home she was dead (she had a load of foam around her mouth and the vet reckoned probably magnesium would have saved her )
She has two nice lambs almost a month old , I dont know how easy they will take to the bottle but how much/often would they want feeding at this stage ?

Twice a day at least for a while if you can get them to take to the bottle. And good creep as well.

rangler1

Bullocks wrote: »

I'm disgusted with myself this evening , I was working early this morning and just threw a quick eye on the ewes . I noticed one on her own looking a bit off form but her lambs were sucking so I thought I'd check her later when I finished. Got caught late and when I came home she was dead (she had a load of foam around her mouth and the vet reckoned probably magnesium would have saved her )
She has two nice lambs almost a month old , I dont know how easy they will take to the bottle but how much/often would they want feeding at this stage ?

In all the ewes i've had with grass tetany, I've only saved one which was last year and she died of it this year. they die very quick with it

arctictree

Lads - Have a ewe here that had an abortion about a month ago. Now she has completely shed her wool. Any idea what's wrong with her? She seems healthy enough otherwise and her skin seems fine.

ganmo

arctictree wrote: »

Lads - Have a ewe here that had an abortion about a month ago. Now she has completely shed her wool. Any idea what's wrong with her? She seems healthy enough otherwise and her skin seems fine.

wool can drop off a few weeks after a sickness, had a ram here got pneumonia and lost big patches a few after he recovered

kk.man

ganmo wrote: »

wool can drop off a few weeks after a sickness, had a ram here got pneumonia and lost big patches a few after he recovered

Its the antibiotics that causes wool loss as my mrs says that stuff can't be good for ya!

Bullocks

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Twice a day at least for a while if you can get them to take to the bottle. And good creep as well.

Thanks Buford hopefully the hunger will get them on the bottle ok

rangler1 wrote: »

In all the ewes i've had with grass tetany, I've only saved one which was last year and she died of it this year. they die very quick with it

They sure do , I'm just mad that I spotted her this morning and didnt do anything about it then

farawaygrass

kk.man wrote: »

ganmo wrote: »

wool can drop off a few weeks after a sickness, had a ram here got pneumonia and lost big patches a few after he recovered

Its the antibiotics that causes wool loss as my mrs says that stuff can't be good for ya!

I read that it's not actually the antibiotics, but rather even a sheep gets sick they probably get a temperate which is what causes the wool loss

razor8

Yes it's the high temperature that's causes the wool lose not the antibiotics

greysides

The sickness upset causes an area of thin strand to be produced. When it clears the hair follicle its brittleness allows it to be pulled off easily.

davidk1394

How are your crop of lambs going? Started dosing today. First bunch of lambs are about 5 weeks old. Had a high rate of lameness among the lambs but they are thriving away. Lambs weigh between 22kg to 25kg including both twins and singles.

farawaygrass

Didn't weight any yet but had them in for dosing on Saturday and very happy with how they looked. I put them through a bluestone foot bath for the second time. First time they was a good few lame, bot so much on Saturday but seen they were in I said I'd run them through it. No creep giving yet to main flock, triplets are getting and eating a lot.

charolais0153

davidk1394 wrote: »

How are your crop of lambs going? Started dosing today. First bunch of lambs are about 5 weeks old. Had a high rate of lameness among the lambs but they are thriving away. Lambs weigh between 22kg to 25kg including both twins and singles.

Doing well. Haven't weighed any except for an old lamb ten weeks old that was 40kg

mcgiggles

Quite a few lame here too. Footbathed them last weekend when we had them in to dose them...

davidk1394

charolais0153 wrote: »

Doing well. Haven't weighed any except for an old lamb ten weeks old that was 40kg

Will he be for the freezer ? There seems to be a lot of lameness across flicks this year. Is there any specific reason for it ?