General sheep thread

That looks like CODD to me…..bought it in here a few years ago in bunch of lambs…..didn’t remark it in mart as they were sold in a pen……and weren’t lame on way out home.

As people have said you need to separate that sheep and keep a tight eye on rest of flock for a few weeks.

I eventually got it out of my lambs by following the measures people have mentioned already above.

Was a pain in the tits though because had to keep them away from rest of flock for over a month to ensure they were all clear of it.

Thats from a teagasc article..

That's €75 a ton cheaper than I'm paying for the small bags.

I wouldn't be long buying a Tipsy bin with that sort of sayings - maby next year.

yes that’s 10 miles east of navan between slane and Ashbourne, this is about 25 miles west of there between trim and Athboy.

so lads feed nuts or ration when ab lib feeding lambs in meal creep feeder at this time of year ? Feeding ration currently, but the waste age is massive.

Done all sheep here with footvax for the first time ever this year. Was always a bit sceptical but by god it seems to be working wonders. I gave initial shot 5 weeks ago and a booster yesterday. There wasn’t one lame bringing them in. I don’t know did they even need a booster as any info I find seems to suggest conflicting advice. Some say it’s food for life but I’ll happily do it yearly if results stay as good as now

nice set up. How did scanning go? I scanned last week, roughly 1.8. It’d back on other years but I’m delighted really, about 10% are carrying triplets. Used to have a lot more

Cormac footbath, so much easier to get sheep into than having a footbath in the race especially when lambs are going in the first time with the ewes.

I'd agree 100% on the footvax, it really strenghtens the feet, we gve two at the start and an annual one after. the vaccine is hard on sheep, we avoid using it around mating.

Hi All,

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She's much improved at last thankfully. I gave her the last of the antibiotics and sprayed her last Tuesday and then caught her again there Saturday and sprayed it. Swelling was gone well down and she's not limping too bad yesterday and today so hopefully on the mend. I've kept her near the house to keep a close eye on her and will examine her again if lameness returns.

Have her with the triplets now also so she gets extra meal to try build her back up before lambing.

I suppose the only thing with the half ton bags would be mice n rats as I do put the small bags into a covered container thats rodent proof.

decided to cut back from lambing 125-130 in mid February to lambing 80-90 next year. Just found the last few years tough on feeding, weather and lamb mortality in January and early February on run up to lambing. February truely our worst month weather. Plan is to do 85 ish in February and 40 -60 including ewe lambs in April when I have two weeks off for Easter. Only thing Is if I drop any lower than 80 it’s not worth having a person during day for the week after I go back to work after mid term in February.no real change in lamb price from mid May to mid August the last few years so what’s point if having too many ewes lambing in hellish conditions in February? Decided afainst building slatted unit for ewes also. Cost was just too much to justify I’d go road of putting ewes on grass away for per /hd / week option ahead of that , much cheaper and not too hard got around here

If you could house a few showing signs close to lambing would that be an option

Yes weather is very poor at the moment and really don't like house them soaking wet as could cause pneumonia also.