Dagging

arctictree

Lads - any point in dagging a few hoggets that are going to be sheared in a couple of weeks anyway?

kk.man

arctictree wrote: »

Lads - any point in dagging a few hoggets that are going to be sheared in a couple of weeks anyway?

I was thinking the same a few weeks back ...I gave them a dose for worms and fluke they dried up....I said to myself why put hardship on myself...I dagged the ram alright as he was very bad

Lambman

Be no flystrike this time off year only making work for urself in my opinion...

arctictree

kk.man wrote: »

I was thinking the same a few weeks back ...I gave them a dose for worms and fluke they dried up....I said to myself why put hardship on myself...I dagged the ram alright as he was very bad

The one I have that's bad, it looks like I missed her while dosing a few weeks ago. It would be a pain bringing them in just to do one so I might leave her until shearing.

davidk1394

If you have an electric shear do. It makes life a lot easier when it comes to shearing and pulling shìt out of the wool.

Birdnuts

Did anyone else glance at this thread title and momentarily though it read "dogging"??:o

As for flystrike - we could start seeing more problems now with the weather getting more humid and damper:(

cuff92

Ive a battery clippers i bought of clippers.ie. its a gift for dagging. Quick and handy. They have a new 2 hour battry out now. Im not sure itll last the 2 hours but its alot better than the old one.

farawaygrass

cuff92 wrote: »

Ive a battery clippers i bought of clippers.ie. its a gift for dagging. Quick and handy. They have a new 2 hour battry out now. Im not sure itll last the 2 hours but its alot better than the old one.

What name brand is it? Sound handy

cuff92

farawaygrass wrote: »

What name brand is it? Sound handy

No brand . Www.clippers.ie i think is the site.

rangler1

arctictree wrote: »

The one I have that's bad, it looks like I missed her while dosing a few weeks ago. It would be a pain bringing them in just to do one so I might leave her until shearing.

I have white ewes here and they're cleaning off here after being very dirty a mth ago and they'll be clean by shearing.
I think it's the first burst of grass that dirties them the most.
Then there's some ewes that are just black at both ends by nature. (suffolks)

Arrow in the Knee

Dagged the ewes on Thursday.

1 with maggots 'only a few' and 1 with eggs.

Bscan86

Birdnuts wrote:

As for flystrike - we could start seeing more problems now with the weather getting more humid and damper

Turned one of the rams over today to treat footrot and there were few maggots inside the overgrown hoof. So the fly could be with us very shortly.ðŸ˜

cattle man

Had a ewe with maggots today bad enough.
Is it to early to clip march lambed ewes ? Would normally wait until early June.
Beside the sea here and always have trouble with maggots on that farm.

Lambman

cattle man wrote: »

Had a ewe with maggots today bad enough.
Is it to early to clip march lambed ewes ? Would normally wait until early June.
Beside the sea here and always have trouble with maggots on that farm.

I'm clipping my mid March lambing flock at the weekend more so for fear off them going over on there back than flystrike... clip twice a year here.

sea12

Lambman wrote: »

I'm clipping my mid March lambing flock at the weekend more so for fear off them going over on there back than flystrike... clip twice a year here.

Had two with maggots yesterday., one was bad enough cut. Have a few dirty ends despite being dosed last week.

No chance of shearing this week by the looks of the weather.

Hillman86

I always dag the hoggets every year, especially in this type of weather. Helps prevent blowfly strike and also helps when I'm shearing them to have the arse done