Treating Sick Animals - Do you lock them up?

onyerbikepat

Just wondering, if you are treating sick animals over say 3 days, where do you keep them in the meantime. Do you keep them in a shed, small paddock or just round them up every day from the rest of the herd.
I've done a bit of treating over a few days lately, so hence the question.
I don't like leaving them in a shed, as I think it stresses them out, which doesn't help things.

Reggie.

onyerbikepat wrote: »

Just wondering, if you are treating sick animals over say 3 days, where do you keep them in the meantime. Do you keep them in a shed, small paddock or just round them up every day from the rest of the herd.
I've done a bit of treating over a few days lately, so hence the question.
I don't like leaving them in a shed, as I think it stresses them out, which doesn't help things.

In a shed if they have to be like ibr or something other than that in a paddock if numerous treatments are required

Miname

Depends on the situation, what they have, whether they are wild or what time i'll be able to get to them. Theres a wee garden adjoining the yard that i try to keep them in for handiness.

Muckit

What stresses cattle out in that situation is not being left in the shed, it's being left in the shed on their own. Cattle are herd animals so in as much as possible you should handle in a group.

We have a secure 'corral' near the yard. Basically a long narrow strip of grass 20' wide with a water trough. Well fenced with sheep wire, a row of barbed and row of electric on top. Great for rounding up cattle, leaving to settle after being bought or let out of shed in spring, but also handy as a sick bay. One person can herd a sick animal and it's buddy into yard and up a chute. Better than just a paddock as it's hard turn out one or two animals if they've plenty of grass.

I said

In the shed with a comrade handiest for me

Farmer Pudsey

Usually in the shed or sometimes in an outside crush if there is a cover of grass in it. I find that the issue with a small paddock is if you are giving repeat injections the one getting the needle can be hard to get in after a while.

However sometimes one will end up inside by themselves. It is not as much an issue with bucket fed cattle as it is with suckler bred cattle

_Brian

Shed here.
Have a shed along the crush so it's foolproof getting them in. Working away from house all day so last thing I need is a load if hassle getting them in for treatment in the evening.