Long Croft Farming
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- Location
- North Derbyshire
Looking for a showering contractor to treat 600 ewes near Sheffield (treating Lice not Scab), would consider plunge dipper but we're a hill farm with poor access and limited places to set up. TIA
Sheep showering contractor wanted
- Thread starter Long Croft Farming
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- Location
- Scottish Highlands
I'm sure I read somewhere on here that there are no products licenced for use in a shower any more. I may be wrong, but do your research.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Some might suggest that’s a different thing to any products applied in a shower being any less effective than they were though.
That is correct, don’t waste your time ......dip them
CopperBeech
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- A Welsh man lost in England
Some might suggest that’s a different thing to any products applied in a shower being any less effective than they were though.
A shower isn’t going to sort scab by how it works
My brother worked in the pharmaceutical industry a few years ago, they were desperate to get their scab dip licensed for showers as it was potentially a huge world wide market but everytime they tried to prove its efficacy it failed hence no licence.
He tells the story of dipping and showering sheep in orange dye and a couple of days later clipping them, the dipped sheep were bright orange but the showered sheep were still white proving the dip had not got anywhere near the skin.
He tells the story of dipping and showering sheep in orange dye and a couple of days later clipping them, the dipped sheep were bright orange but the showered sheep were still white proving the dip had not got anywhere near the skin.
CopperBeech
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- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
Its the ears for me.
Armpits as well apparantly
CopperBeech
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- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
Of course makes sense, they wont be getting it properly swilled all over them.
Pistonbroke
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Squirt of crovect be simpler?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
You’re right, but the OP specifically said it was lice NOT scab.
Used a jetter plenty of times in the past for blowfly control, where it worked just as well as dipping. I only stopped when the cover from the OP dip became shorter than the withdrawal period, as it still is today.
- Location
- East Sussex
Why not use Crovect or if you are not going to handle them again then use Dysect.
Applied correctly Crovect or cheap copy work very well. If applied in March then you also greatly reduce the Ticks as well.
Applied correctly Crovect or cheap copy work very well. If applied in March then you also greatly reduce the Ticks as well.
Chris123
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- Location
- Shropshire
As above why bother showering them for lice just crovect
Long Croft Farming
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- Location
- North Derbyshire
finding Crovect isn't working as well as it used to
- Location
- East Sussex
Too many people do not apply it correctly or at the right rate which may be the reason it isn't working as well as it should.
Most people underestimate the weight of in lamb ewes.
Plenty will weigh well over 80kgs and not be very big!
- Location
- West Wales
20ml regardless over 60kg
Pistonbroke
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Does dysect work for longer aswell?
- Location
- Yorkshire
About as long as the withdrawal period