My average was around the 15th March, and done them all with worm drench & minerals last Thursday when the sheep came in for shearing, Most lambs looked clean but there was some starting to scour, drench has dried them up big time. Id be of the opinion if there are some scouring then do them all, no since waiting till they all have it.
Does anyone know what wool is going for this year?
Have a ram here that was housed all winter and fed nuts and hay, left the shed in great condition but since being put out to grass he has melted and is now just skin and bone. Vet is coming out tomorrow morning to have a look at him. He's a 2 Yr old Suffolk. Other rams in the group including his half brother have had no issues since turn out. Anyone any ideas as what could be wrong.
Was dosed for fluke, injected with dectomax and done for minerals before going out.
What fertiliser would you put on a field requiring N and K
Soil results came back and 1 field has low k, everything else is ok so going with some urea this week.
Planning on cutting hay of this field, I shut it off today
Bit of copper Pure bred Suffolk’s don’t get enough copper from sheep nuts /drenches
Land looking for K.
Results say 49 units of N. 3 units of P and 32 units of k. TIA
Something like 19 0 15. If you had good quality cattle slurry it'd be a good help too. Whats the reading in mg/l of K from the sample? Is it less than 100?
Here's the result
Would grass teteny still be an issue at this time of year ?
Very much so - young stock in particular need a nice mixed species ley to minmize this and general scour issues
I don't think grass tetany is a problem with young stock.
As regards MSS. I am going reseeding a field after silage, had fully intended in sowing MSS but lately been hearing reports that it is very unpalatable. Any truth to that?
Thought grass teteny was to do with cold weather and magnesium deficiency on lush grass ?
Grass grows fastest at this time of year and this can lead to deficiency in Mg density more than other times
I can only relate my own experience which has been very positive in terms of overall thrive. Some good work done on this at UCD Lyons in recent years with significant health and gain benefits over standard mono PRG leys
The maximum demand on ewes is when the lambs are 3 - 7 weeks old and thats the most likely time for ewes to get grass tetany, we use sweetmag high magnesium buckets and seldom have a case... even when we had 600 ewes we'd seldom have a case, and we rarely fed meals after lambing
i wouldn’t call it unpalatable anyway. Sheep graze it to bare from my experience. Chicory and plantain don’t like it and grass outcompetes them. Works better with cattle and leaving a butt of grass in the field
Done an fec on lambs here during the week for the first time, coccidia was present would that mean lambs need to be dosed for coccidiosis, nematodes were 400 and everything else negative. Going dosing lambs on Monday.
from what I understand, coccidia will show as present nearly all the time, and a fec alone is not enough to diagnose it. It’s one of the tricky ones to know weather to dose for or not.
We lost our two best lambs a fortnight ago with coccidiosis so we'll probably be dosing them every year now. strangely both from the same ewe. they were looking great, no scour or anything.
I was reading lately that even though they show no clinical signs their thrive is affected if there's coccidia in the FEC
I suspect it’s restricting thrive here alright. When would you plan dose for it going forward, say for mid season lambs? Hard to know whether to go before or after the nemotodirus dose.
I'd say from three weeks old, and it protects them for three weeks so before the nematodirus dose
Will you be doing them now ?
When I lost the two I dosed them all with vecoxin
Got these results back yesterday from samples taken from 6-8 weeks old lamb that haven't seen a dose,..planning on going in with a white drence for nemo and vecoxan type dose for the coccidosis the end of next week
There's a good chance that a white dose won't kill the Strongyloides, most of the farms in the country have a resistance to white wormers in the Strongyloides. you might be better to use a yellow dose or a clear dose. 200 is a high count for Nematodirus and the Strongyloides will be high by Saturday week. Yellow or clear dose should should kill both, depending of course on if you've resistance to either on your farm
White wormer will kill nematodirus alright
Thanks for that wrangler,might be better using a levamasole based drenched so?..planning on doing a FEC 2 weeks post dosing to see what's working
How long after heptevac ewes 4 to 6 weeks pre lambing would there lambs be safe after words before they’d need there 1st hepta shot ?
Six weeks
IGA SHEEP EVENT
Was any one at the IGA sheep event last night
I thought it was good ... very informative
Was hoping to make it but got tied up at silage,..im only 15 minutes from the farm,they run a very simple sheep system that seem to work well
Was trying my best to go too but got caught up at work. I listened to them speak on ovicast and they seemed very interesting. Anything stand out from the event?
