General sheep thread

Up here in NW if you have only middling ground you need to dose ewes for fluke right through the Summer in a wet year…….they can lose condition quickly if infested with fluke and they are trying to feed a lamb or lambs as well as looking after themselves.

Ya I’ll see if they improve but I’ll keep that in mind 👍

you can go to the sheep Ireland website and in the ram search section put in the tag number of the ram in the search by ram id place.

It will show how many stars they have now and if they are still eligible for the SIS scheme. I don’t think the are any rules about the same ram being sold multiple times to satisfy the SIS criteria for each new owner.

I did an FEC last week - tested for stomach worms & cocci. Tested positive for both. Dosed for stomach worms (clear dose)

Will test again after 2 weeks, to see how the dose did.

I didn't dose for cocci, as I read somewhere that cocci will always be present in low numbers, and only becomes a problem when something else is wrong. My hope is, the worm dose will clear them up and cocci will right itself…

I could be 100% wrong here - FEC results next week will tell I guess…

Lambs seem to be thriving, don't look drawn or dry in the wool that you sometimes see with cocci.

Would be interested to hear what others think, as I could be well wrong in what I did…

Hi all,

I have a dry hoggett who has been badly lame on a front foot for a fortnight.I suspected it might be footrot related as there was a bit of a smell from it.I injected her and a few other hoggetts with Draxin 10 days ago.All the other lame hoggetts are cured apart from this one sheep.

I caught her in the field yday evening, and she seems to have a soft tissue growth,

Just wondering with type of problem it is,should I give her Draxin again,,,,,,,or try something like aAlymycin LA 300?

Thanks for any replies.

Thanks for reply,don’t think it’s CODD.It’s more like the little pollop growth you see pedigree Suffolk rams having sometimes……which can be known as a granuloma..From middle part of underside of her foot there is a little growth protruding about a third of length of your little finger.

It was a good dry evening when I caught her so I sprayed Alamycin spray on it,to see if it might ‘dry’ it out.Didn’t want to repeat Draxin injection straight away as it can continue to work for up to 14 days after injection.Was just wondering if it might be an idea to try her with with more of a broad spectrum antibiotic.

I usually cut them off with the foot parer, spray with alamycin and inject with antibiotic and painkiller

Will be putting her in with comrades to check her so will see if Alamycin spray from other day helped at all.

Yea, they bleed a lot but it's a lot more painful to leave, I've never been able to cure it without cutting it off. It's caused by drawing blood when you're paring the foot, I've heard it called strawberry foot rot

Got the results from FEC test back there…

The original test showed

This test also listed “WORM EGG TYPE STRONGYLE 400 AND MONEZIA 800”

The test I did yesterday showed

This test lists “WORM EGG TYPE = MONEZIA”

Google tells me monezia is a tapeworm - so no impact on lambs? (I was told tapeworms don’t impact lambs?)

100% strongyle worm kill, which is good. The clear dose I used, doesn’t kill monezia - which is good I guess…

Now, coccidia went from 6000 to 1200, which still seems high. I was hoping it would drop more… The lambs are looking well, doing good enough I think. Some were a bit lose before the dose, but very clean now again - so happy with the dose overall.

The white dose I used a few weeks back for Nematodirus, does also kill monezia. But I am not sure it’s worth dosing them again…

The only thing is the coccidia, being a high count. But I am still inclined to leave them as is.

Thoughts?

Once the tapeworm eggs hatch out , numbers will explode into the thousands.

Coccidia shouldnt be a problem if the lambs immunity is good, the two parasites together might affect them though.

If they were mine I'd give them a yellow dose,,,, very easy lose a months thrive this time of year

had 1000 tapeworm count this week all others low, discussion with vet decided go in with white dose yesterday. We decided based lambs only average 12 weeks old

After getting the Sheep shorn today. A lot of them with a yellow tint in their fleeces now. Any idea what it might be