Dosing

DJ98

Dosed ewes with noromectin last summer and then with tribex in the Autumn, would it be OK to now use noromectin again, it mainly just lambs that want a dose but might aswell do ewes to. Thank you.

J.O. Farmer

DJ98 wrote: »

Dosed ewes with noromectin last summer and then with tribex in the Autumn, would it be OK to now use noromectin again, it mainly just lambs that want a dose but might aswell do ewes to. Thank you.

It's a bit early for noromectin. Go with the cheapest worm drench you can find for the lambs.
Ewes should have resistance to worms anyway so shouldn't be as in as much need of a worm dose.

DJ98

J.O. Farmer wrote: »

It's a bit early for noromectin. Go with the cheapest worm drench you can find for the lambs.
Ewes should have resistance to worms anyway so shouldn't be as in as much need of a worm dose.

Noromectin is the cheapest

Lambman

Thought zerofen was the cheapest pink stuff.

orm0nd

DJ98 wrote: »

Noromectin is the cheapest

ideally you should be using a white dose this time of year

Green farmer

White now , yellow in July and clear later in year.

rangler1

Green farmer wrote: »

White now , yellow in July and clear later in year.

Using wormall at the moment, 2c/lamb and thats probably including the cobalt i'm mixing with it, usually use endospec, but it'd be twice the price

Green farmer

rangler1 wrote: »

Using wormall at the moment, 2c/lamb and thats probably including the cobalt i'm mixing with it, usually use endospec, but it'd be twice the price

Funny enough, I typed in wormall into Google search to see where I could buy it and up popped your post mentioning it near to this day last year. Same things arise year in year out with sheep.

razor8

Who stocks it?

Surfn

how often do you lads dose lambs, would you do them every 3 weeks or is that to often

rangler1

Surfn wrote: »

how often do you lads dose lambs, would you do them every 3 weeks or is that to often

We do a wormcount on the lambs now to check for worms, but before we started that we used to dose March lambs at 6, 10 and 14 weeks.
Even with testing that seems to be around when they need dosing.
Its a good idea to get a worm count done 10 days after 14 week dose to make sure they're working

Surfn

rangler1 wrote: »

We do a wormcount on the lambs now to check for worms, but before we started that we used to dose March lambs at 6, 10 and 14 weeks.
Even with testing that seems to be around when they need dosing.
Its a good idea to get a worm count done 10 days after 14 week dose to make sure they're working

it would be around 4 weeks now since i last dosed them, i used duotech. they all seem nice dry round the back end. id say i probably over dosed them abit the 1st time

The man in red and black

Green farmer wrote: »

White now , yellow in July and clear later in year.

Try to avoid switching classes of wormer so often. It actually encourages multi drug resistance. Worth chatting to your vet about dosing regime and faecal egg counts as many of the protocols have changed in last few years. All about minimizing resistance now as so many farms have multi drug resistance in their worms which normally can never be reversed.

Western Pomise

Lambman wrote: »

Thought zerofen was the cheapest pink stuff.

Does that 'pink' colour fall under the classification of being a 'white' dose for this time of year I wonder?

Lambman

Yea it's a white dose as in active ingredient... I was just explaining that it's a pink colour

Bleating Lamb

Anyone ever use 'Arrest' worm dose?....seems to have a broad range of cover.

ganmo

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Anyone ever use 'Arrest' worm dose?....seems to have a broad range of cover.

It's a mix of white and yellow ingredients.

Bleating Lamb

ganmo wrote: »

It's a mix of white and yellow ingredients.

Would it be ok to use it now to dose March born lambs and use it again in July then?

rangler1

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Would it be ok to use it now to dose March born lambs and use it again in July then?

It should be OK, use a completely different product next year, ie an ivermectin.
Some people prefer to change doses during the year, I prefer to use the same dose all year apart from using the white dose for Nemotadirus at the start of the season.
White dose still has no resistant stomach worms here so we'd also use it through the season every third year

Bleating Lamb

Thanks as far as I know Arrest covers Nemotadirus

rangler1

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Thanks as far as I know Arrest covers Nemotadirus

yea allthe doses work on nemo, white dose is usually the cheapest

farawaygrass

I used arrest about a month ago. Was kinda worried after as it's a combination and going on advice here I should have gone with white dose. Was worried about promoting resistance. So rangler, should I stick with this for the year? Then next year use white dose for first dose and clear for the rest of the year? When do ye first dose sheep? I had to do one yesterday, she was shooting it out of her

rangler1

farawaygrass wrote: »

I used arrest about a month ago. Was kinda worried after as it's a combination and going on advice here I should have gone with white dose. Was worried about promoting resistance. So rangler, should I stick with this for the year? Then next year use white dose for first dose and clear for the rest of the year? When do ye first dose sheep? I had to do one yesterday, she was shooting it out of her

White dose is the cheapest for first dose and it works but if you don't have a lot of sheep you,re not going to save much, I change product here every year after the first dose and every product is working 100% , that's all I can tell you. every farm is different.
We had an infection of nemotadirus late in the season once and Levamisole was the dose that year and it didn't cure it, don't know why, maybe there's a resistance in the nemos to levamisole but it was never an issue after, it wouldn't be used in the nemotadirus dose normally.
Our first dose is given after department of ag issue the nemotadirus warning
and the lambs are over six weeks old