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Lot of Fluke about?

  • 26-11-2016 7:58pm
    #1
    Bleating Lamb
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    Anecdotal evidence that there is a lot of fluke about,heard from a factory agent it's showing up a lot in ewes.

    How often during winter do people dose for Fluke? Lot of my ground wet enough so I dose every six weeks.Using Flukiver at the moment.


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  • #2
    greysides
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    A lot of fluke in sheep in the NW and W.

    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.

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  • #3
    farawaygrass
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    We dosed our ewe lambs last sat. They were very dirty and not thriving. They turned inside out in the week though


  • #4
    Dickie10
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    anyone any fluke trouble around south-west Meath


  • #5
    mcgiggles
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    greysides wrote: »
    A lot of fluke in sheep in the NW and W.
    We (in the NW) were told by a vet that if there hadn't been sheep on our land in the last 10 years then there was no need to dose them. We were noobs at that time so thought nothing of it, lambs weren't thriving and did dung samples and the poor feckers were riddled. Dosed them and they started gaining again but it really put us back a few weeks.. 
    So from more experienced sheep farmers.. was the vets advice completely wrong or just that the wetness has the land riddled with them?


  • #6
    J.O. Farmer
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    mcgiggles wrote: »
    So from more experienced sheep farmers.. was the vets advice completely wrong or just that the wetness has the land riddled with them?

    Ithink the vet was wrong to advise against dosing for fluke in the NW based only on the fact there hadn't been sheep for 10 years.

    The theory he would have been working on is the fluke need a vertebrate host e.g. sheep to complete their lifecycle and reproduce. However there could have been other hosts on the land e.g. cattle. Also the sheep didn't magically appear. You would have bought them and they could've carried in fluke.


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  • #7
    greysides
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    Rabbits, and possibly Hares, will keep fluke ticking over in the absence of cattle/sheep.

    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



  • #8
    J.O. Farmer
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    greysides wrote: »
    Rabbits, and possibly Hares, will keep fluke ticking over in the absence of cattle/sheep.

    Thanks I thought there'd be some wildlife but I wasn't sure what species so didn't want to say without an example.


  • #9
    Dickie10
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    i have dry land, i havent dosed ewes for fluke yet this autumn, should i give them a dose now, there in good condition


  • #10
    mcgiggles
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    J.O. Farmer wrote: »
    mcgiggles wrote: »
    So from more experienced sheep farmers.. was the vets advice completely wrong or just that the wetness has the land riddled with them?

    Ithink the vet was wrong to advise against dosing for fluke in the NW based only on the fact there hadn't been sheep for 10 years.

    The theory he would have been working on is the fluke need a vertebrate host e.g. sheep to complete their lifecycle and reproduce. However there could have been other hosts on the land e.g. cattle. Also the sheep didn't magically appear. You would have bought them and they could've carried in fluke.
    Ah yeah, that makes sense, good to know. Rookie mistake so it won't happen again :)


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