Recent content by HF85

Great minds, I have joined NSA and I am planning to go to the event at Malvern! Are you going?

Woolless I think that is my plan!

Sorry forgot to say they are on creep pellets now and will stay on them when they arrive! Great, sounds like the 50ml bottle of Hep P is my solution to not spending a fortune and getting them covered?! If I use Zolvix do I need to use another wormer in combination, apart from Trodax? Meanwhile...

Hi Al R, The honest answer is I don't know! All sheep set ups I have been involved with so far seem to have Hep/Ovi'd as standard so I planned to do the same. As they are unknown sheep going onto unknown land I thought it was probably better to err on the side of caution but open to advice (and...

Cade lambs are between 8-10 wks old and have just gone out on grass. They haven’t had any treatment. The ewes have only been wormed. They haven’t been fluked or cliked as the owner doesn’t like chemicals(!). I’ll ask what they were wormed with and when. Did I dream it or is there a website...

The cade lambs are an hour and a half away annoyingly! I suppose the other option is I either ask the guy who has them to jab them and pay a bit more? The ewes aren’t coming until a week later so don’t think the Hep will last that long and they are a fair distance away too so not really an...

Thank you twizzel. Could I keep the Heptavac for the week between or not? Is there a huge risk in leaving the lambs for a week before Heptavacing them if that isn't an option?

Hi all, I am new to all of this! I potentially have 10 cade lambs for fattening arriving this weekend and 9 breeding ewes arriving the next. They will be kept on different land. Neither set have had any Heptavac P/Ovivac P or fluke, the ewes have been wormed. So my questions are: I have been...