lungworm

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Dairy farmers are being urged to vaccinate their youngstock and naïve cattle against lungworm ahead of the 2024 grazing season. Veterinary adviser with MSD Animal Health, Dr Kat Baxter Smith, said cases of lungworm have been increasing and that...

Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland Farmers are being warned that as a result of the early autumn warm weather leading to an extended grazing period, they should be vigilant for increased parasites. The current wet weather means that hoose or lungworms could be an issue on many farms. Due to...

Have a few batches of calves 3/4 months old coughing as bad as I have ever seen . Jagged the lot with Alamycin 2 days ago and have been doing anything that looks the slightest bit sick with Draxxin but haven’t seen much improvement. Always get a bit of bother at this time of year but this seems...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has said returns for dairy farmers for milk in Northern Ireland are inadequate and that they are “getting shafted” on prices. According to the union, returns for milk are down 40% compared to this time last year and...

Noticing a few raspy coughs in a small batch of stirks that are outside on grass. Anyone having any issues with pneumonia outside just now in this changeable weather? I’m thinking I’m just going to jag them anyway to be on the safe side

Is anyone else seeing a high challenge at the moment? Very rarely do we worm any stock over 9 months old but I have a significant chunk of the milking cows coughing at the moment. They have no other symptoms, no runny noses or eyes and no temperature or milk drop yet so we think lungworm is...

Have a sick steer at the moment with BRD, vet has prescribed oxytet and metacam. Poor buggers breathing is not great but still standing, eating and drinking a little. Will call vet today, but is tubing in some electrolyte a good idea to keep some nutrients in him?? 280kg angus, alwys been a...

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....

Hi pricing up wormer for turning out cattle,usually use Cydectin injection behind the ear but it's risen £60 to £450ish,is there a alternative that does the same job for less? As always Tia.

What do people feel is best for first season grazing cattle? I've always just used ivermectin pour on, but got a little bit caught with lungworm last summer after the terrible wet May.

Back beginning of January I noticed that a lot (maybe a quarter of the flock) were coughing. Based on vets' advice I went in and gave the coughing ones Betamox LA in case it was Pasturella and the whole flock Flukiver in case it was lungworm. A fortnight later there was less coughing but still...

Came across this today, very weak: This years kid at a guess. What do I do with her? Is she likely to have a fluke burden? Can you dose them? I picked her up and took her home

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Cattle farmers are being encouraged to think differently about lungworm in 2023 and to develop strategies to prevent production losses, rather than treat infections. Tom Warboys Tom Warboys, a vet from Synergy Farm Health, said: “Habitually...

Aye up, We only have a few sheep now, but I still like them tip top. We have one with a persistent cough. She’s well in every other way - eating, drinking, not losing weight- and you wouldn’t know she has a cough until she runs anywhere. After a short run she will cough and shake her head...

Hello Forum Not a farmer myself. Some of the neighboring farmers' sheep have been coming down with some kind of acute terminal condition. The sheep do not have tags and by their size think they are this year's lambs/sheep. There on pasture, I think the grazing is a bit pressured but the farmer...

Hi, I know there are various cough threads, but hoping/desperate for some help. Got 3 yearling ewes with a cough, 2 x Texel x Blue Texel and 1 Blue Texel x Welsh Mule. They are breathing fine, no abscesses, eating well, super fit and mobile BUT when they are moved they cough like mad, I did...

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...

We have 18 acres of parched land but there are a few areas where it is boggy and green roped off. It seems to me, now is the time to allow the horses to graze on that boggy area. But I have read never to allow livestock onto boggy land because it will churn it up and make it worse. Anyone had...

Would really like to go back to using these. Once only treatment. No issues for soils or insects and they have worked well here in the past. but the price !!! ☹️