Dosing Ewes and Lambs post lambing etc

Western Pomise

Have ewes and dry Hoggetts to dose at weekend,land was fairly wet over the winter so were done with Flukiver on a programme.Last dosed around 8 weeks ago.Majority of ewes lambed from last few days of March to 10th April.

Have Supaverm and Cydectin in date from last year....was wondering should I do the ewes with Supaverm as it covers both Fluke and worms.....have seen it recommended before to worm ewes once a year around lambing time.
Was thinking of giving the Hoggetts Cydectin (yellow wormer) as they are going to dry ground.
Are the lambs old enough to give a white wormer to cover for Nematodirus.....are around 5 weeks on average?....
Will be giving them a heptavac P shot as well.

Thanks for anyone’s thoughts on my plan:)

Western Pomise

Apologies Mods .....meant to post this in Sheep Forum....please move it to there.

J.O. Farmer

Should be no need to dose for fluke this time of year if you did 8 weeks ago.

Fluke depends on the snail for part of it's lifecycle so this time of year there shouldn't be much fluke.

I'd say dose the lambs. I have heard it recommended to dose some ewes around lambing to reduce pasture burden as lambing can cause them to shed worms. The recommendation was to leave 10-20% to contaminate pasture with low levels of susceptible worms to avoid resistance.

148multi

Western Pomise wrote: »

Have ewes and dry Hoggetts to dose at weekend,land was fairly wet over the winter so were done with Flukiver on a programme.Last dosed around 8 weeks ago.Majority of ewes lambed from last few days of March to 10th April.

Have Supaverm and Cydectin in date from last year....was wondering should I do the ewes with Supaverm as it covers both Fluke and worms.....have seen it recommended before to worm ewes once a year around lambing time.
Was thinking of giving the Hoggetts Cydectin (yellow wormer) as they are going to dry ground.
Are the lambs old enough to give a white wormer to cover for Nematodirus.....are around 5 weeks on average?....
Will be giving them a heptavac P shot as well.

Thanks for anyone’s thoughts on my plan:)

I think nematodirus could be the problem with rising temps

farawaygrass

148multi wrote: »

I think nematodirus could be the problem with rising temps

Is it the kind Of year where a second dose for nematodirus might be needed with the frost we are still having?

wrangler

farawaygrass wrote: »

Is it the kind Of year where a second dose for nematodirus might be needed with the frost we are still having?

Yea, we're going with a second dose three weeks after the first. FECs doesn't really work for nematodirus in that by the time they're in the dung they've a lot of harm done.

Good advice here one dosing ewe or not dosing ewes

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/avoid-dosing-mature-worms-at-all-costs-orla-keane-teagasc/

Western Pomise

wrangler wrote: »

Yea, we're going with a second dose three weeks after the first. FECs doesn't really work for nematodirus in that by the time they're in the dung they've a lot of harm done.

Good advice here one dosing ewe or not dosing ewes

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/avoid-dosing-mature-worms-at-all-costs-orla-keane-teagasc/

According to that article it's saying not to bother dosing mature ewes for worms....so I will do the hoggetts with Cydectin and will do any thin ewe with Supaverm.