Bleating Lamb wrote: » Bought ten ewe lambs on 1st Sept and gave them first Hep P Plus injection that day.....only realized there tonight they need 2nd shot asap,will be Sat before I can do them,that would be 44 days since first shot.So 2 days over 6 week limit,hopefully they would still be covered properly?? Appreciate anyone’s thoughts good or bad:)
greysides wrote: » https://www.facebook.com/wicklowuplandscouncil/videos/252385628755083/
Green farmer wrote: » Ah fair enough. I though the vet got the €20. Either way, it’s a great service for small money. Just hard to always get the sheep to the lab within a reasonable time frame, as the evidence deteriorates the longer you leave it.
Westernrock wrote: » The lab invoices your vet for tests they carry out, the €5 is a carcass disposal fee. Vet then passes charge from lab onto you.
Green farmer wrote: » Way it works around here is, I drop it directly to department lab for €5 but your vet has to book you in. Report goes back to vet who rings you with results. Vets fee for involvement in process is €20. The alternative is call out the Knackery for €40. Some times you don’t just have time to drive to the lab though and go down the knackery route.
greysides wrote: » Wrangler, which lab is near you?
Lambman wrote: » Think it's in around that money wrangler aswell... what will lab tell u that vet can't? Not being cheeky just never sent any till lab before.
Lambman wrote: » Can your vet not do the post mortem and let u know within a hour that the case here?
Lambman wrote: » If you think flukes the problem hardly worth sending till lab when vet can tell you?
wrangler wrote: » There has been a big increase in worms in the last few weeks, so scouring from worms wouldn't be unusual after five weeks, but we had them scouring from the lush grass lately and no worms. . Pity you didn't PM the lamb, white dose rate needs to be doubled to kill mature fluke, be surprised if it was fluke, it's early for it especially after the drought
wrangler wrote: » It's looking now as if mixed grazing for sheep is not just an advantage but a necessity
greysides wrote: » Some interesting points in that article. The comment that 28-30 day dosing is necessary is in contradiction to the best local advice: Ditto the opinion of FECs: It would also surprise me if there wasn't triple resistance on some farms in Ireland already given the current prevalences of resistance.
Green farmer wrote: » You’d be surprised. Dosed about 5 weeks ago. Got the 100% kill, as per results. All was good, then roll on 4-5 weeks and the lambs are back squirting out grass, find some looking weak and one dies. I bring them back in and dose again, with a alternative color worm dose. No more deaths and the squirting is stopping. Only thing I can conclude is mild weather in the last week or two caused another hatching of eggs or the previous white dose killed fluke that were over semi mature but missed out on the young immature fluke. Roll on the few weeks and the need was there to kill the previously missed fluke, that were now mature enough to kill. Either way I had the need to go every few weeks at this time of year.
greysides wrote: » Some interesting points in that article. The comment that 28-30 day dosing is necessary is in contradiction to the best local.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » An interesting post on worm dosing, if you can enlarge the photo in it.
Treatment of lambs Lambs are often treated frequently to eliminate the negative effects of gastrointestinal parasitism and ensure high growth rates. A number of strategies can be used to reduce the selection pressure for AR when treating lambs. *Research carefully the need for preventive anthelmintic treatment for nematodirosis. Where farm and field histories suggest that the risk is significant, consider using 1-BZ or 2-LV anthelmintics instead of 3-MLs. Check 1-BZ effectiveness by a drench test 9-10 days post-treatment. *Use FEC monitoring to help predict the need for treatment against T. circumcincta and Trichostrongylus spp. *On farms where lamb treatments have been at very high frequency, such as every three weeks, explore strategies to extend the period between treatment to four or five weeks, or more. *Look for management strategies which avoid the build-up of infectivity from mid-season. Avoid frequent treatment of lambs on the same fields as those where ewes were suppressively treated during lactation because there will be low numbers of larvae from unselected parasites and AR can be expected to develop more quickly.
FEC monitoring to optimise the timing of anthelmintic use FEC monitoring provides information about the worm status of a flock of sheep and can help in the decision about the need for treatment with anthelmintics. If grazing sheep have high FECs, and the faecal samples have been collected appropriately, one can safely assume that worm burdens are high and that treatment is justified. Unfortunately the corollary is not always true and low FECs require careful interpretation.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » An interesting post on worm dosing, if you can enlarge the photo in it.https://twitter.com/PallasTb/status/1048329847125073920?s=19
Lambman wrote: » Neighbour took a lend off one my rams for hoggets he's 4 tipped outta 6 in 2 hours... lucky timing or would u expect repeats I always notice hoggets repeating.
