I've a lamb that fostering didn't work out so giving him a bottle 4 times a day getting 1.6 to 1.8ltrs in total.
He's getting Red Mills creep also but not eating that much of it for some reason so struggling to build it up as was hoping to wean him off milk when the current bag of frisky is gone. Not much more I can do I suppose. Only concern is I don't creep feed the lambs so when he goes back with the flock it will be only grass he will be getting so hoping he will do ok then.
I don't know why he's not eating half a pound meal per day unless you're feeding him hay and he's stuffing himself with it.
Also regarding weaning, he won't thrive on grass alone until he's 10 weeks old at least so you may try to keep him eating meal, Lambs are mostly weaned off ewe when they're 12 weeks old plus
He's not getting any Hay or Silage just the 4 bottles a day and fresh meal every day also.
He seems to eat the bits he likes out of the meal and leaves the rest the fussy little scut.
It's alleged that Draxxin can result in infertility in female sheep. A very well respected sheep farmer told me. My vet won't prescribe it either.
I didn’t look to get Draxxin from my vet but was discussing other drugs with him and asked it if was something they use. He said it was usually used in cases where nothing else worked.
So I was just curious if it was widely used by farmers or how effective it was against lameness.
Thats rubbish..using it here the past few years and it's never effected litter size..all treated ewes are color marked when treated and don't see any pattern of them ending up as singles or emptys
Fair enough, that what i was told but again i have no experience of it.
I put clik on lambs Saturday and looking at them this evening there is no trace of it on them…..we had rain since but nothing mad, how quick does it usually wash off ?
It's absorbed by now, it lasts like 3 mths
I just thought it would still be some way visible, I was worried it was simply washed off with rain !
The pink is a dye to help you know what is done, it usually disappears quick
How often are ye worm dosing February-March born lambs ?
Every 5-7 weeks ?
We always test before dosing and it can range between 4 - 8 weeks. We dosed on the first of may and had to dose again today. The rule of thumb used to be 5, 8, and 12 weeks in march born lambs before the wormer resistance was a problem
I recently purchased a clipster clippers. Seems to be a good job although I was wondering if I bought some heineger or similar better quality blades would it make a difference? Blades that come with it are slow enough getting through wool..that could be due to the extreme amateur status of the operator though..
you probably just need them sharpened & set right
got sheep sheared yesterday for 3 euro each which was.nt bad
That seems to be the run of it now, a good little earner for a good shearer that can do 30 - 40/hr
paid 500 to two lads who were here shearing 3 hours 15 minute and fed them also. Worked out slightly over the the 3e. It’s great money but I wouldn’t begrudge them it. They are just back from Australia and said they are getting slightly more out there, with solid days work at a time without having to travel so much. if a lad was well able to shear he’d do mighty out there. Ewetube done a video a while back breaking down how much he made one week out there
I was talking to my shearer at the weekend, he was telling me he did 1000 last week at €3, his ex isn't well so he has to bring his daughters , 11 and 13, with him and they got €90 each after school from the farmers over the week, One pushes up the sheep and the other packs the wool.
He'll have another shearer with him from now on
hard job shearing they surely deserve the 3 euro a sheep
Working with a fella doing ground works here. He's on over 1000 a week. Not Dublin hours. Starts at 8, he lives 10 mins from work finishes at half 4 or before it. Said he cleared 1400 in 2 wee jibs he done in evenings and Saturday.
No late evenings, and he wouldn't be busted
It amazes me how much these lads earn and have done so for a good few years now. I often wonder why I paid so much attention at school with the goal for a 'good' job. I don't begrudge lads making money but it totally goes against the beliefs i was brought up with. Despite all their earnings only a few have anything to show for it.
Just as in any industry there are well and poorly paid, there are people on tills in a national supermarket very nearly grossing €1000 without overtime or weekend rate. But a work colleague may be on €12 / hour.
Construction work is more cyclical, so more prone to boom/bust. Also fewer youths are going the route of manual labour.
Tilers are clearing about €60 an hour gross, but work is still building up in front of them. ( they price by area ).
is there any product to treat both liver fluke and rumen fluke?
there is but they only treat adult liver fluke,(eg Zanil & Levafas Diamond) better to do both separately in my opinion
thanks. Sheep need a fluke dose, and the vet said there’s a lot of rumen fluke about
Levafas very strong stuff, there will be some scour out of them just be watching for maggots in this weather if they get dirty back ends after the dose.
I just did them for liver fluke in the end. Will see if there’s an improvement before dose them for anything else
Would you always dose for fluke over the summer?
I thought dosing for fluke was an autumn/winter thing more so?
EDIT : What dose did you give em in the end?
I know what ya mean. Few reasons I went with a fluke dose. 1) we had to take in one sheep from the field as she was very thin and off form.the inside of her eyelids were very pale which is one sign of fluke.
2) when I was handling them at shearing I felt a few with what I thought were small lumps under their jaw. Another possible symptom of fluke.
3) a few years back, around now or maybe a few weeks later, I thought the hoggets had worms as they weren’t thriving as well as I’d like. I took a dung sample and it was clean for worms but showed positive for fluke.
4) the sheep hadn’t got a fluke dose since well before lambing.
Talked to the vet and they recommended a liver fluke dose but also a rumen fluke dose as they are seeming a lot of that. I dosed them with endofluke in the end. we wouldn’t have wet land but it’s a very wet year.
