vecoxan

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.

Has anyone mixed the dose for coccidiosis in with the milk when feeding bucket reared calves or will I just go to the trouble of dosing them and be lazy!! It for prevention as had some trouble last year

Hi - hopefully not too obvious question! My understanding was always that lambs should develop an immunity to nemo quite quickly after being exposed and wormed. I've found nemo in dung samples twice this year (once at 8 weeks and once at 12). Lambs dosed on both occasions (white drench) and...

Hello. just after some advice or pointers on rotation. Having had sheep on the ground here for 3O plus years lambs are not doing so well as they used to. I’m awaiting some FEC results etc but is there any golden rule with rotation or resting ground so I can improve things. Such as ewes certain...

I’ve a bunch of friesian calves 75-100 days old that are not thriving at all they got a setback with pneumonia before I got them that I only found out about the other day. They have ad-lib access to calf rearer nuts and fibre first and hay and straw. I’ve them isolated from my other calves. All...

Anyone any idea what could be wrong with this calf? Found her with a very mucky back end as can be seen in the image... Apears to be like a bloody diarrhea, definitely blood coming too. Calf still seems lively and is eating corn and sucking it's mum but obviously something must be wrong. Thanks

We’ve ended up getting a lot of trouble with orf on ewes tits. The ewes and jan born lambs are inside and usually stay inside until weaning in late March. Usually we vaccinate lambs against orf at 5 weeks old, but unsure now of the best plan to stop it getting any worse. Any ideas?

Can sheep have lambivac and bravoxin at the same time?

First year treating month old lambs with Tolracol for cocci , how often does anyone using it need a second dose , Dont usually keep lambs indoors but due to outdoor grazing pressure have to keep them in a bit longer ,so going to start creeping them to get them off first 40 ewes ewes asap (recon...

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...

Spent quite a while yesterday with our collection, following various issues which arose during a marathon dosing session. Problem 1: Why is the barrel full, and not full, at the same time FFS 🤬??? Set to 8ml, barrel full, delivering 6ml. It's a tired old boy but a favourite and it' turns out...

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...

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...

Morning, I've got a group of calves at the moment which have cocci. Treated on Sunday night with tolracol and metecam, they've practically gone off their cake completely, eat hay not to bad and straw, but they're steady still. Muck isn't to bad, and not seen much blood, just one speck I found...

As a rule we have our lambs out within a week , but this year had to keep them in a bit longer (about a 5 weeks -month) due to having to be off nearby keep quicker and later lambing , i went through lambs and gave a squirt 1-2ml of vecoxin at about 3 weeks old along with first dose of ovivac ...

As above really I have a small batch of 20 march born lambs, these are the last left so not the best doers had some awful worm issues from the last autumn, whereas they get really mucky, I worm them they dry up and look better for a month then back where I started First year I have ever tried a...

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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...

I have a 7 week old calf with cocci. The Vet has treated it with Trymox and after no change another vet visit, calf was given an epidural to stop it straining, something to help with stomach irritation, an antibiotic that also works on cocci.. Sorry can't mention names as can't read the Vet's...

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?