I generally use Alamycin LA 300mg/ml on the individual lame cases but this year had a few ewes that had to follow up with a second or third injection before they were fully better. I sometimes notice that around lambing time the single injection doesn’t always work, I don’t know if this is due to increased stress on the ewe or increased weight.
Does anyone use Draxxin or any other antibiotic that they find more effective?
I'd agree with you regarding the irresponsible use of antibiotics and worm doses , but I did say to consult your vet,
I've only once blanket injected and it was for abortion and it cured the lameness for the whole housing season as well.
We never got ahead of the lameness last year and it had a huge impact on lamb thrive
Sand problem here. Always footbathed, every few weeks and no problem. This year despite footbathing, every two weeks ewes still kept getting lame. Used antibiotic and eventually got on top of it after footbathing , weekly.
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I won’t do a blanket antibiotic treatment anyway, I’m completely against that because so many farms are getting antimicrobial resistance when they really need the antibiotic to work so I’ll avoid that route at all costs.
I’ll double down on the footbathing and hopefully I get ahead of it
would you ask your vet about blanket treatment with a long acting antibiotic.
We injected the ewes with Footvax twice in desperation last October/november , Nothing was working,
We've only one ewe and no lambs lame at the moment, so if this is down to footvax we should have been doing it years ago.
Anyone else finding the same using footvax
thanks ya I haven’t put in the creep feeder until I get a handle on the lameness
Was hoping to avoid seperating lame ones because it’s so hard to find the mother/sibling of the lame one now that numbers are starting to fade but I’ll have to try !
Lime around areas where they congregate slows the spread of it. Round licks or drinkers
Footbath, seperate out the bad cases for a week and do twice and change all to a new clean field. Creep feeding and congregation in areas will not help either.
having big trouble here with scald in ewes and lambs, footbathing every two weeks, I’m getting a great response from the footbath for the first 10 days post treatment then a large % start limping again …. Any tips to reduce it ?
First bit of fly strike here today. A hogget just swishing the tail. Clipped back and a big lump of maggots just about to break skin. Lucky to catch it as they're at the homeplace and I don't see them as often as I'd like (father checked every day but just to see none have 4 feet up 🤣)
If you're using a creep feeder you may keep meal in it and they'll look after themselves.
If you let it empty for any length of time they'll eat too much when they get it.
Lambs 30 - 35 kgs will eat a kilo /day
They'll be slow to start so don't put too much in the feeder to keep it fresh for them
Mid March lambs and creep feeder going out today. Will start them off small but what should they be built up to?
What age are they.
Have you a creep feeder with them
How much meal per head per day would lambs want to be getting?
some jeyes fluid will do the job
no clik is preventative and not a cure
I've a ewe with maggots. Normally I'd clip them out of her and then put some dip on them. I've no dip left over from last year and I plan on getting someone in to dip them this year with a mobile dipper.
Question is, if I clip maggots out of her and treat with click, would that work???
I'd chance it anyway..keep an eye on them afterwards and you will know if it was ineffective.
I can't see how it would harm them anyway
I found an unopened 5L Clikzin in the garage. Expiry 11/21
Is it any good to me ?
I'd cull straight away if it was me..I doubt the lambs are getting anything from her if she is that bad. The other option is treat her with antibiotics but Will obviously have to wait.out the withdrawal period then..
Have a ewe with mastitis, 2 lambs are still with her but are getting meal. Her udder is starting to detached and is smelling bad. Would I better to cull now and just let the lambs run ( are about 2 months old now) or leave her for another while.
I thought once they were crossed they were safe enough? I used a blue texel ram on my Suffolk cross ewes the last 2 years, no problem with any lambs. Was debating keeping some for breeding, but reading here looks like could be a bad idea?
I assume blue texel are affected by texel throat the same as white ones?
formalin is good for a walk through but if used too aften makes the hoof hard.
There's different strengths of formalin so you'd have to ask the seller the recommended dilution
What products are folks using in a walk through footbath? I normally use zinc sulphate but not in a position time wise to use this week.
Another ewe with texel throat, have lambs going on Monday so might be able to get her away.
Fairly cheesed off with texel x sheep just now.
The white dose and Ivermectin gets gloopy after a while but the yellow and zolvix would probably be all right
5-6weeks old and eating half a pound meal/day for three days
What age do people normally wean bottle fed lambs ?
hi folks ,
I am wondering if people have ever used out of date wormers before? And do they still work? I have a few early born lambs that I want to give a worm dose too , but the dose is a year out of date .
Would it still be okay to use and work of coarse??
