Ticks

Conmaicne Mara

Whats everyone using against our little blood sucking friends this year on lambs? I will likely be using Vector again, find it does a good job on them.

Salmonman

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Whats everyone using against our little blood sucking friends this year on lambs? I will likely be using Vector again, find it does a good job on them.

Spot on

Birdnuts

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Whats everyone using against our little blood sucking friends this year on lambs? I will likely be using Vector again, find it does a good job on them.

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MayoAreMagic

I use vector also. I find it excellent. It can be dangerous if you put it on too early though, particularly on a twin that mightnt be as strong. If you put it on a lamb a few days old and the weather is particularly warm, they will stagger around in the back end for a few hours. But they are usually ok. The problem is you would swear it was swayback, and the shot of copper you would give, thinking you are doing good, could kill the lamb altogether.

Conmaicne Mara

MayoAreMagic wrote: »

I use vector also. I find it excellent. It can be dangerous if you put it on too early though, particularly on a twin that mightnt be as strong. If you put it on a lamb a few days old and the weather is particularly warm, they will stagger around in the back end for a few hours. But they are usually ok. The problem is you would swear it was swayback, and the shot of copper you would give, thinking you are doing good, could kill the lamb altogether.

I put 5ml Vector on everything over one week old this evening. Caught a lamb a couple of days ago and the amount of ticks in the poor fella was unreal. Put 30ml on the ewes I put in. Dog got a good work out selecting singles, he'll sleep tonight.

They're bound to be a huge draw on thrive.

MayoAreMagic

No question they are con. What is worse, they can bring on paralysis which takes a long time to recover from, that is if they recover. We would get a couple of cases a year if we hadnt treated for ticks at regular intervals. I have even seen a few hoggets go down with it also. It is the last thing you need around this time of the year.

Lano Lynn

fortunatly don't have ticks here(lowland) so forgive my ignorance
would injecting the ewes with ivermectin,dectomax or cydectin control the buggers would the active ingredient pass through the milk to the lambs?

Conmaicne Mara

I wouldn't be sure tbh, if you Google the data sheets no doubt it'd be in it if that happens.

Dipping bath next on the agenda for here I reckon, have been using the injections but am not mad on them tbh.

drive it

Was thinking of putting dip on lambs for ticks a light spray with the knapsack . Would it do them any harm they are from 3-6 weeks old?

supersean1999

Used baticol on most of the lambs. Must get around to rest over the weekend. Had a few lame ones early in the week and they all had ticks. So the sooner the better.

Bullocks

Would there be many tics around this time of year ? I'm going letting ewes and lambs into a bit of rough grazing at the weekend and want to be sure they are alright in there .
When would lambs get their shot of covexin ? I did the ewes a few weeks before they lambed and the lambs are about a month old now ? Thanks

tom_k

Bullocks wrote: »

Would there be many tics around this time of year ? I'm going letting ewes and lambs into a bit of rough grazing at the weekend and want to be sure they are alright in there .
When would lambs get their shot of covexin ? I did the ewes a few weeks before they lambed and the lambs are about a month old now ? Thanks

I've observed quite a few ticks on young lambs the past week. The weather's been so bad that I haven't been able to administer Vector yet though. I'm in Mayo and one section of my land is particularly bad for ticks so I've moved them off that now.

Connemara Farmer

Bullocks wrote: »

Would there be many tics around this time of year ? I'm going letting ewes and lambs into a bit of rough grazing at the weekend and want to be sure they are alright in there .
When would lambs get their shot of covexin ? I did the ewes a few weeks before they lambed and the lambs are about a month old now ? Thanks

Yes there are, some places are crawling with them - literally. I would put vector on them before letting them into the rough grazing.

Don't use covexin here, I was told for heptevac p + not to give it to lambs who's ewes had been vac'd prior to lambing before they were 7-8 weeks old.