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[Whitewalker]

Anybody know where to get these wee air fittings for orby feeders or even what they are called to search for them? View attachment 1137276

I think orbey

Anybody know where to get these wee air fittings for orby feeders or even what they are called to search for them? View attachment 1137276

 

[Tex]

Does nobody vaccinate any more?

What do you use?

 

[Thompyd]

Anyone have come up with an idea to stop Wellies wearing when wore with leggings? I get 3 months max out of Wellies these days before they have rotten away on the sides.

 

[Mouser]

Anyone have come up with an idea to stop Wellies wearing when wore with leggings? I get 3 months max out of Wellies these days before they have rotten away on the sides.

My latest pair of bekinas are well over a year old and no signs of wear/rot. Previous ones would struggle to do 9 months. Wondering if they've changed the recipe.

 

[cowboysupper]

I'm well pleased with tbe Troya Techno wellies I'm wearing. Comfy, light and durable. Cost somewhere around £25 online back around the turn of the year. Got fed with pricey Dunlops splitting. Skellerups are nice boots too but a bit heavier for tramping around all day if you've chicken legs like me.

 

[Thompyd]

 

[Thompyd]

Less than 3 months old Nora Max. Dunlop's weren't any better

 

[daveydiesel1]

Try swampmasters. I used to wear dunlop and bekina but never lasted but im gettin round a year outa swampmasters

 

[jay]

Does nobody vaccinate any more?

I did this year for the first time since Ivomec came on the market, they coughed after the second dose of vaccine but aren't coughing now. It's not cheap & i probably should have switched to a cheaper wormer.

 

[yoki]

What do you use?

Haven't had to rear calves since I quit milking but after one particular bad do with lungworm one year I looked in to it and the answer seemed to be vaccination rather than anthelmintics.

So that's what I done from then on.

The theory is that the frequency of dosing required to keep the gut worms under control doesn't allow any natural immunity to build for lungworm so that if you get a peak, which is also unpredictable depending on the year, it hammers them.

Vaccinate them and they're ready for it.

You need a live vaccine (or used to, presumably the procedure hasn't changed much?) so it takes a bit of forward planning, but it worked and I stayed with it until I stopped rearing youngstock.

You can also save a bit by using a gut only wormer.

 

[yoki]

I did this year for the first time since Ivomec came on the market, they coughed after the second dose of vaccine but aren't coughing now. It's not cheap & i probably should have switched to a cheaper wormer.

Being able to get away from ivomec I considered to be an added bonus.

 

[cowboysupper]

Have any of you any agri-consultants you'd recommend for nutrient management plans?

 

[Tex]

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Happens to me as well. They either do that or split.

 

[daveydiesel1]

Gdt auction up today

 

[Sheep]

Have any of you any agri-consultants you'd recommend for nutrient management plans?

Shoot me a PM, I might be able to assist.

 

[Borney92]

I use cydectin la for all yountstock. It goes in at the back of the ear. Find it a great job. I get 4 months out of it before I need to go again.

 

[The Agrarian]

Do you pour on the back for the rest of the season, or ear again?

 

[Tex]

I use cydectin la for all yountstock. It goes in at the back of the ear. Find it a great job. I get 4 months out of it before I need to go again.

What time of year do you do it? At turnout time or June/July?

Need to do something different next year. Had a lot of coughing from July onwards. Pure torture.

 

[Cowlife]

Have had bother with this now for two years. Vet advised levamsole jag as best for lungworm. It does seem to work. Ivermec and cydectin was doing nothing. I'll be housing shortly and use levafas diamond. It worked well last year.

 

[Borney92]

What time of year do you do it? At turnout time or June/July?

Need to do something different next year. Had a lot of coughing from July onwards. Pure torture.

My autumn born fr heifers generally get out in February and I do them as they are going out and again in May after dung samples. And if needed a cheap wormer after dung samples late September before housing.
Beef calfs get done end of march April going out and then cheap wormer after dung samples around now.