New quarantine
- Thread starter Benn
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- Ceredigion, wales
OK thanks I stand corrected. Think I better tell our vet too
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Mine is always mostly in 50 dose (100ml) vials. IIRC the smaller bottles are even dearer per dose.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
But the old vet advice was always to mix naive young sheep with aborted ewes to let them get natural immunity, as @GTB posted.
Very risky practice anyway IMO, unless you know for certain what the abortion agent involved is.
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- Fife
But the old vet advice was always to mix naive young sheep with aborted ewes to let them get natural immunity, as @GTB posted.
Like the practice of putting cull sows in with bought in maiden gilts.
That is the advice with campylobacter abortion (if you don't want to import vaccine).But the old vet advice was always to mix naive young sheep with aborted ewes to let them get natural immunity, as @GTB posted.
Moredun should know:
Sheep become infected if they eat feed (pasture, concentrates) or drink water contaminated with cat faeces than contain Toxoplasma oocysts. Unlike chlamydial abortion, toxoplasmosis is not directly transmitted between sheep http://www.moredun.org.uk/research/...rmation/disease-summaries/toxoplasmosis-sheep
Interesting. They told me it's the only size it comes in [emoji35]
- Location
- Leicestershire
Sorry to hijack the thread but I didn't want to start a new one.
I have 100 sheep coming later today and cannot house that many for a few days as is recommended. Would I be best to leave them in a dirty field where my lambs have been?
I have 100 sheep coming later today and cannot house that many for a few days as is recommended. Would I be best to leave them in a dirty field where my lambs have been?
This time I've got 2 X 50 and 1 X 20 dose bottles [emoji15]
It's £4.53 a shot. Ouch. [emoji389][emoji389][emoji389]
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
I can imagine.
Will have to enquire to see what's the smallest size bottles of toxo and enzo they do.
The biggest dilemma I can foresee for me (apart from paying the bill) would be determining the cut-off point of the ewes age to not vaccine. Got quite a few 3 year olds and wondering whether it would be waste of time/worth doing these or just the ewe lambs / yearlings
N.B. @Benn - sorry for hijacking the thread.
I used Cevac, and vaccinated my flock for first time last year against Enzi.
I tag my homebred ewes with different colour tags each year. I drew off the 2 oldest age groups (4 and 5 years old)... and I chose not to vaccinate these ewes. I didn't have an abortion storm, my vet described it as a 'grumble', so felt it was low risk. Results have been good, and it reduced the cost of the initial vaccination.
yes - dirty field.
Danllan
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- Sir Gar / Carms
@bovine can you recommend a decent text covering ovine parasites? I've just had a friend staying - equine vet - who studied at Massey in NZ, he loathes ag work but has advised me to buy 'The Sheep: Health, Disease & Production' since he studied under one of the authors and found the text a very good reference indeed. I can get a copy sent up from NZ, but if there is a particularly good text from the UK and centred on the UK I would rather have that.
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- Montgomeryshire
Wouldn't any book be out of date in a short time? Things move on so quickly as more research takes place and 'expert' advice is changed.
Yes and no. The majority of the life cycle stuff etc has changed very little in the last 50 years. If you want to learn how they breed, live and transmit then a book will be fine. Advice does change, but not that quickly. If you followed SCOPS version 1 you wouldn't be that far away 10 years later.
Danllan
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- Sir Gar / Carms
Thanks for that, have just done so - not having realised before that there is a whole manual to download...
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- Welshman living in Nottinghamshire
Dectomax; will the worm dosage rate (1ml/50kg) also cover for scab (lower dosage rate)?
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- Easter ross
No not going by the label. Can't remember of the top of my head but is slightly different. Is scab prevention 1ml/33kg??
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- Welshman living in Nottinghamshire
Yeah 33kg. 1ml/33kg cover for worms AND scab then?
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- Easter ross