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dead ewe rfid tag

  • 30-04-2020 9:08am
    #1
    ep71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭


    Hi Lads, just had a ewe die last night, 2 lambs about 3 weeks old.

    Had got grass tetany and we dosed with mg and ca as per vets recommendation but she didn't recover.

    2 questions, do we call the knackery and cut out the rfid tag or what do we do with it? Haven't lost a sheep since changing to the new tags.

    What to do with the lambs, they are about 3 weeks, good and strong, we have no other ewes that lost a lamb.


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  • #2
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    ep71 wrote: »
    Hi Lads, just had a ewe die last night, 2 lambs about 3 weeks old.

    Had got grass tetany and we dosed with mg and ca as per vets recommendation but she didn't recover.

    2 questions, do we call the knackery and cut out the rfid tag or what do we do with it? Haven't lost a sheep since changing to the new tags.

    What to do with the lambs, they are about 3 weeks, good and strong, we have no other ewes that lost a lamb.

    Leave the tag on the ewe, ring the knackery to collect the ewe and record her death on the flock register.

    Your best bet with the lambs would be bottle feeding them, I think. Give them access to some ration and water along with some grass or hay and hopefully you can wean them in a few weeks?


  • #3
    orm0nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,273 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    ep71 wrote: »
    Hi Lads, just had a ewe die last night, 2 lambs about 3 weeks old.

    Had got grass tetany and we dosed with mg and ca as per vets recommendation but she didn't recover.

    2 questions, do we call the knackery and cut out the rfid tag or what do we do with it? Haven't lost a sheep since changing to the new tags.

    What to do with the lambs, they are about 3 weeks, good and strong, we have no other ewes that lost a lamb.

    Call the knackery

    and make out a dispatch document. Leave the tag in situ.

    Fill in details in your flock register.

    Get a bag of lamlac for the lambs and try to bottle feed them.. Maybe start them on a bit of lamb ration as well.


  • #4
    orm0nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,273 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    orm0nd wrote: »
    Call the knackery

    and make out a dispatch document. Leave the tag in situ.

    Fill in details in your flock register.

    Get a bag of lamlac for the lambs and try to bottle feed them.. Maybe start them on a bit of lamb ration as well.

    Edit. The sheriff types faster than me.


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