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Itchy lambs !!

  • 06-01-2013 10:30pm
    #1
    foxylock
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    Well lads Happy New Year.

    I Injected the ewe lambs around the end of november with Noromectin for scab prevention. All seemed well until a few days ago they started itching, today they are tearing along the wire and shaking their heads like mad yokes! I couldn't see any lice or mites on the ones I caught and examined but they are definitely being troubled by something. Could you recommend a better injection or should I just dip them altogether? I just wonder is it a bit cold for dipping the poor divils. Thanks.


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  • #2
    eire23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 713 ✭✭✭eire23


    Would be no harm at all to dip them, the weather is nearly as mild now as it was in the summer.
    We do all ours with normectin and dip as well and never have any bother.


  • #3
    foxylock
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    eire23 wrote: »
    Would be no harm at all to dip them, the weather is nearly as mild now as it was in the summer.
    We do all ours with normectin and dip as well and never have any bother.

    If tis fine tomorrow A swim might do them no harm at all. Sound for that.


  • #4
    jomoloney
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    cydectin injection

    on a side note are they covered for cobalt? could be early signs of deficiency


  • #5
    Username John
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    jomoloney wrote: »
    cydectin injection

    on a side note are they covered for cobalt? could be early signs of deficiency

    Can cobalt defiency cause lambs to itch & bite? :confused:


  • #6
    greysides
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    Noromectin Injection datasheet:

    Noromectin Multi Injection is to be given subcutaneously only. Inject once under the loose skin in the neck. For the treatment and control of sheep scab (Psoroptes ovis) two injections with a seven day interval are required to treat clinical signs of scab and eliminate living mites.

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  • #7
    foxylock
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    greysides wrote: »
    Noromectin Injection datasheet:

    Noromectin Multi Injection is to be given subcutaneously only. Inject once under the loose skin in the neck. For the treatment and control of sheep scab (Psoroptes ovis) two injections with a seven day interval are required to treat clinical signs of scab and eliminate living mites.

    I did that!!

    I know the mites faeces can itch the host up to 14 days after treatment but tis long after 14 days now.


  • #8
    foxylock
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    jomoloney wrote: »
    cydectin injection

    on a side note are they covered for cobalt? could be early signs of deficiency

    Thats a new one to me, I know that cobalt deficiency leads to "Pine" a chronic wasting disease in sheep. Characterised by emaciation of the animal, dull dry wool and loss of appetite. Vitamin B12 injections and dosing with a cobalt bullet is the recommended treatment with the animals expected to recover quickly.

    If I were to go on appetite alone my sheep would be horses!!


  • #9
    greysides
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    foxylock wrote: »
    I did that!!

    Fair enough but you never mentioned giving two doses.

    Here's a bit of reading for you.


    Page 9 of this gives the pro's and con's of the different types of treatment.

    Basically there's nothing as all-encompassing as dipping.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • #10
    foxylock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭foxylock


    greysides wrote: »
    Fair enough but you never mentioned giving two doses.

    Here's a bit of reading for you.


    Page 9 of this gives the pro's and con's of the different types of treatment.

    Basically there's nothing as all-encompassing as dipping.

    Two excellent links there greysides, thanks very much. I'll take the dipping option on the next suitable day. Today was a disaster constant rain, fingers crossed for a clearance.


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