stantheman1979 wrote: » My next door neighbour has a blue texal ram. He reckons they're not hard lambed and grow like stink. He has nearly all his march born lambs sold( blue texals and dorsets) off grass. But he said a good few of the ewes has one white and one completely black lamb with made it hard to mother them up when they're young as you can't spray mark the black lambs!
Lambman wrote: » Anybody any experience with blue texels? Heard there easier lambed and slightly more prolific?
Lambman wrote: » Yea I knew that... they still throw predominantly white lambs... the colour is a genetic thing that's all but people wreckon they also have a slightly differ in other genetics which makes them easier lambed and slightly more prolific?
Willfarman wrote: » A 40kg ram lamb will do plenty of damage if you didn't want him to!
The disease is believed to develop in the host for between one and two weeks after it ingests muscle tissue that contains Sarcocystis cysts, the final host will then begin to shed the infective parasites in its faeces; shedding continues for several months.
Livestock become infected by sporocysts from the feces of carnivores. Because most adult cattle, sheep, and many pigs harbor cysts in their muscles, dogs and other carnivores should not be allowed to eat raw meat, offal, or dead animals. Supplies of grain and feed should be kept covered; dogs and cats should not be allowed in buildings used to store feed or house animals. Amprolium (100 mg/kg/day for 30 days), fed prophylactically, reduced illness in cattle inoculated with S cruzi. Prophylactic administration of amprolium or salinomycin also protected experimentally infected sheep. Therapeutic treatment of the chronic stage (tissue cysts) has been ineffective. Vaccines are not available. Experimental work demonstrated that infected pork and beef could be made safe for consumption by cooking at 70°C (158°F) for 15 min or by freezing at –4°C (24.8°F) for 2 days or –20°C (-4°F) for 1 day.
greysides wrote: » I don't think the author of that report really understood what he was reporting. While what is written is true it gives the impression, having being talking about sheep, that sheep are the 'Final host'. In this case sheep were the intermediate host, the final host being something that might eat sheep meat, a dog perhaps. The sheep won't be shedding infection themselves, they only become a problem once dead. The cysts in the meat, under attack from the bodies defences, are basically small abscesses.http://www.msdvetmanual.com/musculoskeletal-system/sarcocystosis/overview-of-sarcocystosis Both links I've used seem to be America-orientated. This disease is not by any means common in Ireland. I've never heard of it here before so I wouldn't be panicking about it. It's an unfortunate situation for all involved as the factory suppliers couldn't have known about the problem and the factory is left with unsaleable meat. So who carries the can....?
cattle man wrote: » Quick question When ye use click on ewes do ye apply 35 ml for 50 kilos or do ye increase the dose more to allow for ewes being 70-80 kilos. My ewes would be 70 kilos roughly. Thanks
Username John wrote: » Do you shear late in the year, that you're putting clik on the ewes now? Or does everyone put clik on the ewes a few weeks after they're shorn? We never used to here...
razor8 wrote: » i always use seperate dockets, easier when filling out flock register too
