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Winter dipping!

  • 05-10-2016 06:56PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭


    Do many of ye do this and how long after dipping have you to wait before letting the RSM out with the ews?


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭IH784man


    Don't see any reason to wait


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭DMAXMAN


    never wait here, usually dipped and rams let in same day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Got maggots in a ewe a few weeks after dipping


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭Western Pomise


    Got maggots in a ewe a few weeks after dipping

    That's unusual....what dip did you use?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Don't know, sheep shower lad supplies it


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭cattle man


    Same problem here maggots in ewes today and them only dipped 3 weeks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,960 ✭✭✭Bleating Lamb


    cattle man wrote: »
    Same problem here maggots in ewes today and them only dipped 3 weeks


    Dip obviously did not do the job then!....was it mixed at proper rate?...have heard people saying that dip definitely doesn't have the same 'power ' in it since the elements linked to cancer were removed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    cattle man wrote: »
    Same problem here maggots in ewes today and them only dipped 3 weeks

    Was that shower or dip, don't have much faith in the shower
    Tommy Boland on the journal during the summer was saying that the dipp wasn't lasting as long as the withdrawal requrement.....35days i think


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,960 ✭✭✭Bleating Lamb


    Used ' Ectoflits' dip here this year following recommendation from man who has a mobile dipper.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭solerina


    Used ' Ectoflits' dip here this year following recommendation from man who has a mobile dipper.

    We use that too, seems to do the job. Only one we have had problems with recently is Hygea, didn't seem to work properly at all !!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭jd06


    It's 1.30 a sheep here
    Says he's using Osmond
    I can get it done for a euro but not sure bout the quality?

    I shore my ewe lambs last week would there be any point dipping them.i suppose it would reach the skin quicker.
    Any ideas?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭cattle man


    rangler1 wrote: »
    Was that shower or dip, don't have much faith in the shower
    Tommy Boland on the journal during the summer was saying that the dipp wasn't lasting as long as the withdrawal requrement.....35days i think

    Yes showered. They were actually done twice because the first time I done them I got maggots in them after 3 weeks and he came back to do them again free of charge and yet again maggots in them after 3-4 weeks Total disaster will never use again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    jd06 wrote: »
    It's 1.30 a sheep here
    Says he's using Osmond
    I can get it done for a euro but not sure bout the quality?

    I shore my ewe lambs last week would there be any point dipping them.i suppose it would reach the skin quicker.
    Any ideas?

    Recommended to leave them 3 weeks as it can be poisonous in cuts, shearing cuts, I always leave them 3 weeks here, even at that i lost a ewe due to a bad dog bite on the day of dipping that i didn't see till after


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