So you do you them twice?The ewes that have come across it will be immune now, hence flairing up again once enough naive sheep come through the system.
Standard vaccination practice, I'm told, is to vaccinate before the first tupping, then boost before the second, then let natural immunity do it's work.
Seems to work here.
Why do they do it? 3 lambed twins in one corner while I was having a brew, sorted them out and popped my head into the next bay and there’s 4 ewes laid next to each other all starting lambing.they’ve got 3 x 15ft bays to choose from
Do you lamb ewes Hoggs?
I am experimenting with them as well. Have found them surprisingly easy to work with (I thought they’d be wild things). Good mothers and producing a smarter lamb. Below is a Hogg with twins born yesterday by the Beltex.
We had it 36 years ago and a third aborted out of the 200 we had. Next saw it 10 years ago when a third aborted out of 1 batch of 200. Rest of flock was fine.Looks like I've got campy in my ewes.not sure where it's come from but it's causing me grief.vet says they should be immune from it now.they said vaccinating for it was a bit pointless. as might not see it again for 4/5 years
Do you think they will be less prolific than the NOE mule, which could be a good thing (less triplets)?
Haven’t had them long enough to tell, these hoggs scanned at 131% excluding empties, no triplets
I take it once it's on the farm it's hard to get rid off? I don't know much about it.
My understanding is that like a lot of sheep diseases such as enzo, toxo, scab, border disease, campy etc, and now Schmallenberg, it’s in the environment, birds, etc so you can never isolate yourself from it
I all ready vaccinate enough for the cattle looks like the sheep are heading the same way.
Just about sums it up.
If he canGet in there my boy, make sure you report back here if she ties you up and whips you like a dog
What sort of supermarket are you going to that has sheep parking cars?Must be the same as parking at the empty end of the supermarket carpark then coming back to having a motor jamming you in at either side with the remainder of the carpark still empty ................fkn sheep
Arrowquip, porta yards or whoever they are now do cattle stuff as well I think.
For mine I just got the local smiddy to make up sections and gates etc to my measurements. Far better quality than most of what you'll buy from the likes of IAE. Worked out very similar on price but I got better quality and exactly what I wanted
Have a word with Ron Finney.
