cocci

Hi I don't post much on the livestock threads, we have had started to have some trouble with cocci this last month in the calves. We run sucklers and the calves are outside with their mothers on grass. About a month after turn out (early April) we had one with it(died) and since had another 2...

Written by Agriland Team The European Commission has granted approval to Elanco Animal Health’s pending acquisition of Bayer’s animal health business. Elanco, the US-based company, says that it continues to move towards a mid-year closing, hoping to close the deal by August 3 , 2020...

Milked at weekend and this morning, a few cows are coughing, perhaps 1 in 15 ( a row) It seems too early to be thinking of lungworm , but is it ? We have been grazing since mid March, and had a bad attack last year, so I suppose could have a high burden of infection. We treated them 3 times in...

As the title really. Almost certain I'm going to stop using lleyn rams to breed replacements and getting some exlana or easycare rams instead of them. Lleyns aren't doing anything wrong but I tried an easycare X exlana ram in 2018 and some of his daughters have lambed this year. They didn't do...

Datamars Livestock UK facilitate the tagging of several million animals each year and supply the UK Agri trade from the supply, service and distribution centre in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders and Ballycastle in Northern Ireland. Three distinct product divisions exist within Datamars...

Written by Agriland Team Speaking to farmers over the last week, they have said that they have come across a couple of flock health issues, particularly with their lambs. The main issues that seem to be arising are that both ewes and lambs are showing signs of lameness, as well as a couple of...

Are these nemo or something else?

The May Parasite Forecast includes seasonal disease advice Chronic liver fluke infection Sheep : Nematodirus, PGE, Coccidiosis and Blowfly strike Cattle : PGE, Lungworm and flies and ticks NADIS Parasite Forecast webinar: May 2020 • Chronic liver fluke infection • Sheep • Nematodirus...

I moved some ewes with lambs onto fresh pasture on Sunday. Today I have noticed just one lamb (just over 8 weeks old) with diarrhea. It's down his tail and back end, and whilst I was cleaning what I could with a tissue (I'll wash him down properly once I have a hand later) it started coming out...

Hello, Joined this forum to ask opinions of Charollais sheep as pedigrees, considering starting a small flock, Are they good mothers, mastitis problems? Milky? How are they on their feet What type of longevity have they? Any other breed problems to watch for? These wouldnt be my first...

Aye-up, back in the winter I decided we would move all our sheep off the main block (all 14 acres!!) on to new ground near home. That ground hasn’t seen sheep for over a year and even then it was just a short winter graze. They all had Dectomax when they came here and have had a fluke drench...

Written by Agriland Team Over the last two weeks or so, the weather has finally become good and grass growth rates are on the rise. This, in turn, has seen the majority of farmers let their ewes and lambs out to pasture and take their minds off what has been a terrible February and most of...

Written by Billy Wickham UK farmers have been warned to be mindful of the increased risk of coccidiosis as they put calves out to grass. Dr. Tim Potter, from Westpoint Farm Vets, part of the VetPartners group, explained that during the housing period of a calf’s life, coccidiosis-causing...

FEC results are showing significant cocci numbers and lambs just starting to look a bit stary. So going to do a cocci drench today. Nemo count was below 50. But resent weather and SCOPS both days to me risk is high. So is it ok to do both together or should I wait a week for the Nemo drench?

Got a field that ewes and lambs grazed last year and lambs had a high cocci count around end of April- dosed with vecoxan twice and all ok. Suckler cattle grazed in the past week and now a number of 2-6 week old calves have a grey scour- does anyone know if cocci is species specific or can it...

I don't normally have orphans for very long - don't have a huge scanning percentage and usually get any set onto other ewes. This year I had an early pure texel who's mum hadn't any milk. He's been on a Heatwave machine for the last seven weeks and is doing really well. All the advice I read on...

Written by John Swire Beyond the immediate issue of flooded pastures, a wet and mild winter can provide an additional headache to sheep to farmers when it comes to lambing time, giving ideal breeding conditions for some problematic parasites. The industry-wide animal health body, Sustainable...

January began settled and cloudy with mild weather for most of the month except for a cold, wet period towards the end of the month. Consequently, the provisional UK mean temperature in January was 5.6oC, which is 2.0oC above the long-term national average (1981-2010). Regionally temperatures...

https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/health-welfare/castrating-and-tail-docking-lambs-should-be-last-resort?utm_content=bufferae70d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

many years ago i used to buy rumivite cattle blocks for the winter housing, packed that up and went to the 1 point something tonne bulk lump rock salt, i use it out in the grazing paddocks and in the yards, what do others do and whats the price at the moment?