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Anyone done one yet with Feb/mar born lambs? Just started to notice the odd mucky bum, need to do a FEC count tomorrow to check levels of nemo as wells guess.

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Those of you rearing calves on milk spring born or early autumn born outdoors. What are your procedures for going about it, what age are you turning out/ milk quantities/ weaning process etc. I want to do a couple hundred spring born like it....

Anyone point me in right direction where to find iron supplements for piglets? Was thinking oral but injectable if not?

Some of our weaned heifers (80 to 100 days old) have developed very loose, watery, grayish muck. Smells bad, not like normal muck. Current diet is 3kg calf cake + deccox (split 50/50 morning and afternoon), ad lib hay and barley straw. Vet has been out and taken samples, negative for cocci...

Must be time for an updated discussion on feeding in lamb ewes through the winter and lambing. Firstly hard feed is not being considered here due to system change. Not needing the time, disturbance and cost of fuel and wear and tear in ATVs and Snackers. When you add it all in to the...

This is a thread for those who feel guilty about cluttering up dear old GUTH’s beloved price tracker with the chit chat that stop us all being that miserable our families would throw us all out to sit with the dog in the porch. All are welcome, you can even post prices if you want. The only rule...

Been having issues with my youngstock, lack of clean, quality grazing so grass not much of an option... This is from weaning to say 6 to 9 months. Usually on ad-lib cake, hay and straw to 4 (!) Months then hay, maize and 2kg cake. Previously had good results but recently had a lot of animals...

Hi all, had a heifer calf die today, she was 3 weeks old but was premature (about a month early) i noticed she didn't drink this morning and tubed her along with some electrolytes took her temp (normal 38 degrees so didn't give antibiotics) but was looking OK so was feeling hopeful I'd caught...

Currently have 400 indoor lambing mules and texel/mules. I bought 15 sucked hoggets and 25 ewe lambs to try over the next year. Ewe lambs purchased for £105 weighing roughly 45kg in September and sucked hoggets for £150 at around 60-65kg. Tupped half with Charollais and other half to beltex...

Hi, I posted on here on 3rd December as a 7 week old calf had coccidiosis. It has had every drug the Vet can throw at it and 2 days ago another dose of cocci, this time Vecoxan. The calf is still sick and has runny poo which sometimes looks like it has mucus and lumps of goodness knows what in...

Is there any cheap way of treating lambs for coccidiosis 2.5l of vecoxan is €260 and I’m wondering if anyone has an alternative?

This year instead of buying in stores I took on some cade`s and have been plagued by scours. Weaned at 5 weeks, introduced to grass gradually over the next week then turned them out 24/7. A few of them started getting just a bit loose which I was convinced was just the flush of new grass and the...

What do folk recommend for the first dose at around 6 weeks old.

Got a friend who’s calves are getting to 2 months old and then going downhill fast, no scouring or anything just really going backwards. Vets have done several blood tests and found nothing, vet is suggesting possibly chronic fluke. Anyone heard of anything like this before?

This industry has a tragic safety record, what can we all do that may improve this ? lets use this thread for suggestions ? some maybe unpopular with others (I know mine will be !) but surely we can’t continue watching so many loose their life’s trying to produce a bit of food my top 3...

Do I need to give a Baycox dose to the lambs in the orphan pen? I did the rest of the lambs today but I’m scratching my head about the orphans that haven’t yet set foot out onto grass. Thanks

Hi everyone, Just curious, does anybody drop the fender before the pig farrows? We always drop it as we check and find them with piglets, however it seems like unecesarily disturbing the pig at a tender moment. I wondered if having the fender down as soon as the sow moves in would be better...

Every year I have to dose my lambs for cocci so I was wondering if the brinnicombe buckets would be worth a try instead. Has anyone used them rather than relying on vecoxan? Only 35 lambs but more hassle getting them in to drench. Lambs are 10 days - 4 weeks old and just spotted one of the older...

What is the cause of lambs prolapsing this time of year. Weaned lambs on creep and grass