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Store Lambs

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    yeah within a week every year i dose for all stages of fluke, used Endafluke this year. they are coming out of south kerry and west cork mountainous terrain so they would be eating and drinking around small pools and wet marsh and bog areas on the mountain. if i didnt dose they would be some dead by november 1st, id say some could have fluke 7-9 weeks in them so another 2-3 weeks they are going to be adult fluke and start damaging them big time.

    next job is heptavac p plus all lambs . im going with one last load of by own before i do that. should have maybe 12-15 to go



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    how do you go about actually taking a fecal sample id like to know for worm dose? how many sampples do i need?



  • Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭joe35


    Take about a tea spoon full from 10/12 lambs and put it into a zip locked/freezer bag. And leave it in with your vet.

    I'd have them in the pen and just collect a few samples. Or in the corner of the field even.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    Sorry can’t seem to rotate



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    They were dipped last Friday 1 September, dosed for all stages of fluke a few days before that, next vaccination heptavac P plus



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  • Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭Murang


    Still happy with Dan in Kenmare



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Jonnyc135


    Do you give mineral in dose or bolus, its amazing how much a lamb can thrive once wormed out fully, give minerals, good grass and a good dip. They look nice lambs, North West where I'm from love those Brokie type ewelambs.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,203 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    Just watched Glyn Egan selling 170 lambs at Kenmare on YouTube.

    Some amount of sheep going through the ring there.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    Yeah hes a good guy, once you tell him what your looking for. overall hes very easy to deal with.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭jfh


    bought a batch of stores , would they need clikzin this time of the year ,don't have dipping bath



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Jonnyc135


    I wouldn't bother to be honest now looks like cooler and breezier weather from now on. Just have to make sure to keep a close eye if a warm humid spell came



  • Registered Users Posts: 214 ✭✭Country lad


    this time if year usually spray some dip on them does the job for me



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,165 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    For animal welfare reasons I'd use a preventative rather than treating than treating maggots as they happen, also if you miss a case for only 24hrs this time of year, maggots do terrible harm



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    id use click if it were me, water it down a bit. you could have maggots in mid october



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭memorystick


    What’s the trade like? They seem dear but if you bought 30 kgs now you’d have fine hoggets by February



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭memorystick


    Do many here use mineral licks with the stores? Bought lambs from Kerry and wanted to give them the best chance.



  • Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭joe35


    I wouldn't use mineral licks if giving meal. I dose with cobalt but think meal should have enough of trace minerals.

    What sort of money are stores making. I've horneys here from 35 to to 40 kgs and wondering if I should hold on to them till after Christmas and put them in a shed



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Tileman


    poor enough trade in baltinglass this morning. Not many makingbover the €100. Allot of light lambs 38kgs and mid 90s what they were making



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭jfh


    I gave mine welmin licks ,find them the best and get time out of them unlike the molasses ones



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭memorystick


    Is the first feeder on top any good for feeding hoggets indoors? I’ve no ewes and have 60 in a shed. It’s the square one with a green hopper. Would they knock it over? Thanks



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  • Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭joe35


    I've that hopper in a shed feeding ram lambs ad lib. No problems with it. Find it holds a large amount of meal so they don't go empty



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭kk.man




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