General sheep thread

No issues with sheep feet here...every time the are brought in for a dose or sorting the go into the footbath (Zinc sulphate) without exception. I did this for the last few years and would not change now. Id say I turn up about three sheep every year to do something with their feet. When i think of the hardship of my youth i cringe.

sometimes, you would see the glare in the water. Certainly you would not get three goes out of it.

the solution lasts a good while, whereas formalin is dead once you use it.

Zinc will work even if the water is dirty.

no copper sulphite does

i buy my replacement combs and cutters online. the ones in co op usually for cattle i think

Texel ram lamb here this morning with very large blister like lumps on his top and bottom lip and seems to be affecting his breathing and ability to eat. Wasn't seen yesterday but was perfect on Tuesday. Anyone any ideas what this could be, can't get vet on the phone

just got sheep welfare payment 12 euro a head i taught it went up in budget to 20 euro a head

At least u got it. Apparently I forgot to submit it. Ffs only my own fault don’t know how I didn’t press submit as I remember completing it.

Anyone still waiting on their SIS payment, still nothing showing here?

Yes still waiting here too!!

went down to look at sheep yesterday evening around 4:30 and spotted a new ram out with them, copped him a mile away , worse still he looks to have scab , loose bits of wool on him, i seperated him with quad and moved my ewes onto 2 fields down, so a field between them, i had to leave the ram there and try get hm out or move him in day light, he was gone back to neighbouring field today. some guy has a few sheep in about 4 acres of lawn type field in front of an old house which is derelict this 20 years, so the fencing wouldnt be overly great for a sheep that really wanted to get out but mine never bothered with it, usually never sheep in it always either a horse or two or cut twice for bales thats all it was done with it. just wondering i guess im screwed and have to inject the whole 80 ewes with dectomax now? wouldnt like to chance it, he was out for about 36 hours i would think, had a fight with my own ram to by looks of blood on my own lads horn/head. very annoying.

well Dectomax would be cheaper and easier to do in fairness and be definite to kill all stages of eggs /mites in one shot. just wondering would anyone chance them or would that be far to risky? i have to bring another 50 ewes home from an outfarm at scanning in 3 weeks, so was thinking in next 10 days to hit them all with Dectomax. i wonder would that up risk of resistance building hiitting ewes with no need for a worm injection. i had early stages of scab last year around december and gave dectomax to all ewes in group and it cleared it completely.

I'd be afraid of the resistance..for the sake of 2e per head a shower spray and a piece of mind. If you have a good set up for penning then it's less hassle than injecting.

And put the rams owner into the shower also.

yeah i wouldnt like the idea of the shower either to be honest, Dectomax is very good and one shot, it kills all stages from eggs, yeah i think a lot of lads forget the 17 day period afterwards where scab lives on bushes etc, i spole to two farmers with sheep in last 48 hrs and both actually cut me off mid sentence when trying to explain the 17 day thing , they literally didnt listen just cut in and said "ah no it will stay forever aaround a place always has". Yeah because people put the sheep back into infected fields. same last week with a guy who dosent keep sheep really just buys a few store lambs an odd time, he asked me what i dosed with and told him then he told me what he dosed with and asked how long it would do them for fluke and i said it depends, id have to look it up and see does it do all stages of fluke or adult only etc, i asked him what stages it covered, he just shrugged and goes " oh i dont fuckin about that shiite, sure it be grand" , how can you help some lads

No I'd say you're better off preventing than curing after it runs ragged. Definitely don't take the chance