Ask your scanner, some prefer them nearer to 100 days
What are Suffolk hogget ewes scanned to twins going for roughly
Is anyone having trouble with the lsl app lately.. watching a mart early in the week and an auction yesterday and can't get volume or any sound..have pictures coming in fine..
Have changed phone recently so maybe issue is my end...
What do people use in a footbath that you find works well? Always used formalin here but trying to get away from it and looking for a new product.
I think with every other product the sheep have to be left standing in it for 5mins and on dry concrete for 30mins after.
We use Zinc sulphate at 10% solution every time they're in and haven't pared a sheeps feet in years, copper sulphate is the same but splashes rots through galvanise and destroy gates
Out of interest, would you run them through the footpath often, I've a good few lame since housing
I've taken over the sheep from the father, we never dose the ewes for fluke or worms, we do the lambs regularly. Without doing dung sampling, should we be? Is it usual practice to dose month after housing?
we'd usually footbath once a month, they'd be out for scanning 1st january, vaccination 10th feb and sometimes we'd have to do them carefully before lambing, They'd be footbathed anytime they're out of the shed for something.
We feed straw and ration here, no silage, so bed is always dry, but last year we fed silage for 4 weeks and had to foot bath every fortnight, silage was wet and bed was wet. Lameness is an awful problem if it gets going.
Our footbath is indoors and costs €20 to make up the bath and it'd easily do the 80 ewes 3 times, maybe 5 times
A lot of farms don't have a problem with fluke and obviously your farm doesn't.
Mature ewes don't need worm doses unless they're thin, healthy ewes are immune to worms, but if there's an odd thin one give them a dose.
I feed silage and pay extra to get em chopped and find it v.good as they dont pull it under em,this virtually elimated lameness and we wouldnt footbath over the winter
Whats the mixing rate on zinc solution,im trying to put up a batch footbath to move away from formulain before its banned
1 kilo to 10 litres
What's best way to mix up zinc last time I was at it found it slow to dissolve with water
Most times the stuff I buy is crystally and dissolves easy just by putting it in the water, but sometimes I get stuff thats nearly a flour like powder and you have to mix it in a bucket/half barrel first , stirring the water while adding the powder, other wise it just sets in the bottom .
We bring the water up to 40c. and try to mix a hour before needed.
(we always have hot water available as we're dairying)
Anyone ever try the intra hoof fit range?
Thanks lads might try it with hot water next time.
When ye have used it a few times and yer finished how do ye dispose of the zinc solution?
I dilute it well, sweep it out, We use a hydrometer to test it when footbathing, it'd only be about 3 or 4% when you'd be cleaning it out so it'd be less than 1% if you filled the footbath, I know it burns the grass if I don't dilute it well
or Put it in a slurry tank if you have one.
Diliution is the solution to pollution
We put it into the slatted tank
We also do some footbathing in the fields and as @wrangler says any spillages will burn off the grass. It takes a long time to recover also.
Fired up a half dozen of these today, for the new years influx.
Where did you get them?
There are loads of places online if you do the Google thing. I liked that one because it's like myself, direct. Still won't work for the real problem causers, we had homemade signs for yonks, but they're up anyway.
Would a Suffolk or Texel ram be better mule hoggets? Tinkering with the idea, probably sold with lambs at foot thinking the suffolk lamb would sell better?
Its something like this is needed....get a pure hassle off em around here and nothing but abuse/attacked,if you try and stop em
Tell me about it. I have unfortunately resigned myself to the fact that as I replace existing perimeter fencing it must be significantly less attractive to attempt to cross. I intend to tek screw stokboard to gates to make them less climbable. Only so much one can do without spending the Communion money though.
My thinking would be sufflock on the mule, and Texel back on that cross.
either or would be grand though and if went with texel, the ewe lambs with speckled faces should be good sellers too
i have an ongoing issue with sheep coughing...has been going on for months now, a few here and there but they aren't thin or anything so it hasn't panicked me....my issue is they have been dosed for lung worm with two different dose classes to ensure its not a resistance issue but they are still coughing.
I got feacal samples done and they came back as they had no lung worm....so whats causing the coughing.
Young sheep (all hoggets) and of several different breeds with no texel/beltex blood so its not a "texel throat" type of thing.
Has anyone any bright ideas of what it could be ?
TIA
All the best for all my fellow sheep farmers in 2022.
May the ewes lamb well and we see a good years growth and prices!
Could be opa, also know as wheelbarrow disease. I think they loose condition with it and eventually die but coughing is a symptom of it. Probably unlikely to be it although there is some one scanning for it if you wanted to be sure. Look under the sheep vet on Facebook. There's probably more than them at it though.
Wheel barrow disease is easy identified.... if you pick them up by the back legs like a wheelbarrow, the fluid from their lungs just runs out of their mouth and nose.
Often had a ram here with it
thanks for replies, ya i have though about OPA but from chatting my vet we feel they are too young for it, they are all ewe lamb/hoggets and its unlikely for them to all show it this young.....I did also try the "wheel barrow test" but no signs of OPA from that...to me it nearly seems like a mild long term pneumonia if there is such a thing !
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