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Ceri

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Nothing I don’t think, lost a few ewes and particularly ewe lambs the last 6 weeks so nice to see the odd one on a kill sheet, only had 1 fluke so far this year, before we dosed the ewes twice we’d on 20% fluke in lambs after September.
I’m not sure on the price but I think those 25 would be on £6.40
£6.40...........!!!! sh!t the bed....😍😍
 

Ceri

Member
All double jabbed by now. Vet said with daytime temperatures 15-16 degrees and nighttime near freezing, vaccine is pretty useless. The temp change puts too much stress on the sheep. And most of that group were homebred texel crosses!
How many did u loose @Anymulewilldo ? We had it back in 2016 first 2 weeks of September & lost 70/80 lambs...... I'll never forget that it was absolutely awful & I'll be honest it took its toll on me for a few weeks after that....
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
How many did u loose @Anymulewilldo ? We had it back in 2016 first 2 weeks of September & lost 70/80 lambs...... I'll never forget that it was absolutely awful & I'll be honest it took its toll on me for a few weeks after that....
Thankfully not that many. 40 odd total I think. Another 5 this morning but the vet did warn me that there will be 1 more spurt of death as those too badly infected can’t recover.
I try and avoid handling them when pee wet through. But it was dry here last week. But the temps were all over the place. We fluke and wormed them last Monday. Vet reckons that’s probably the initial cause. Made them scour a bit, dropped their immune status a tad and BOOM the pasturella gets going. No point worrying about it now. I’m just making sure I tell all my wintering men so they remember that the sheep job isn’t all sunshine and £50 notes!
 
Thankfully not that many. 40 odd total I think. Another 5 this morning but the vet did warn me that there will be 1 more spurt of death as those too badly infected can’t recover.
I try and avoid handling them when pee wet through. But it was dry here last week. But the temps were all over the place. We fluke and wormed them last Monday. Vet reckons that’s probably the initial cause. Made them scour a bit, dropped their immune status a tad and BOOM the pasturella gets going. No point worrying about it now. I’m just making sure I tell all my wintering men so they remember that the sheep job isn’t all sunshine and £50 notes!
Best thing to do is learn from it and move on. I’ve had many a similar problem with sheep. An old fella up here used to say ‘a good soldier never looks back’ he was right too
 

Jimdog1

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
How many did u loose @Anymulewilldo ? We had it back in 2016 first 2 weeks of September & lost 70/80 lambs...... I'll never forget that it was absolutely awful & I'll be honest it took its toll on me for a few weeks after that....
Heart breaking. Makes you afraid to open the gate in the morning. You got to be mentally tough to be a livestock farmer and learn to put things behind you and move on. It takes its toll sometimes though doesn't it.
 

Jimdog1

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Thankfully not that many. 40 odd total I think. Another 5 this morning but the vet did warn me that there will be 1 more spurt of death as those too badly infected can’t recover.
I try and avoid handling them when pee wet through. But it was dry here last week. But the temps were all over the place. We fluke and wormed them last Monday. Vet reckons that’s probably the initial cause. Made them scour a bit, dropped their immune status a tad and BOOM the pasturella gets going. No point worrying about it now. I’m just making sure I tell all my wintering men so they remember that the sheep job isn’t all sunshine and £50 notes!
Mmmmmm, it's not all beer and skittles is it.☹
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
I’ve always told the staff at lambing to go off the philosophy of “it could be worse, it could be you!!”
We have those little wheelie bins for dead stock at lambing. Lambs, cleansings, mummified lumps of yuck. All go in them. 1 student looked in it on her first day and was shocked how many there were in there (about 6 lambs) I laughed and told her they are the last few days! You’ll see plenty more. Those swines that come out with their heart beating but won’t breath, or big perfect lambs that are just still born. 🤷🏻‍♂️
although too talk to some of our fellow sheep farmers they never have those, ever! 😂
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
We have those little wheelie bins for dead stock at lambing. Lambs, cleansings, mummified lumps of yuck. All go in them. 1 student looked in it on her first day and was shocked how many there were in there (about 6 lambs) I laughed and told her they are the last few days! You’ll see plenty more. Those swines that come out with their heart beating but won’t breath, or big perfect lambs that are just still born. 🤷🏻‍♂️
although too talk to some of our fellow sheep farmers they never have those, ever! 😂
I use old vicon hoppers to cover ewes with, can fit 8-10 ewes under 3 of them. You know lambing is going well when the deadstock guys ask for the telehandler and you have a few grab fulls 🤦🏻‍♂️
In the shed we never leave a bag more than a day before taking to the vicon hoppers with the ewes, it gets moral down looking at dozens of lambs otherwise. Out of sight out of mind 🤙🏻
 

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