worming

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.

Rumen fluke here, and if it's here in the Highlands, it's everywhere 😱. We suspected a missing link, with losing a few healthy lambs last summer. Just suddenly going downhill for no reason, looking flukey but shouldn't be, and in spite of a very effective health plan. After reading the comments...

Nearly everyone ive asked to do a "job" is at or over retirement age, busy as hell? Examples, metal worker/welder, blacksmith, motorcycle dent, classic bike painter, thatcher, motorcycle seat recoverer, maker, etc etc etc? Just named a few, i bet others can name many other skills/ trades, that...

Have 2 ewes a week or some off lambing in a batch of 50 that have started star gazing The texel x has gone down and can’t stand and . The Welsh mountains can. Both have sporadic wake up moments . I have been treating for the last 24hrs for - CCN - vit b1 & B12 . Never seen CCN before. -...

Bit of a background. Last yr we didnt dose pre lambing. We then went on to loose a load of ewes with lambs at foot and it was unknown. Fec come back good. Pms inconclusive then we bit the bullet and dosed all the ewes with cydectin triclomox off our own backs and it pretty much stopped deaths in...

Written by Claire Sammon from Agriland The National Sheep Association (NSA) aims to highlight the devastating issue of dog attacks on sheep or ‘sheep worrying by dogs’ during its week long awareness campaign next month. As daylight length increases, dog walkers tend to spend more time...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) group is urging producers to move away from the blanket worming of ewes and to consider a more targeted approach. The group said sustained wet weather has put ewes under pressure this winter...

I see there appears to be some momentum to protest but @delilah is right... what are YOU going to protest about? I suspect we all want something different as we are often divergent from each other even within each sector. If I was in Cardiff with a banner, it would be focused on the dash to net...

4 dogs & 1 bitch still available. Healthy, thriving pups! All vet checked, microchipped and given their first vaccination. Worming up to date. They will be 8 weeks old & ready for new homes on 22/01/24. Based Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

4 dogs & 1 bitch still available. Healthy, thriving pups! All vet checked, microchipped and given their first vaccination. Worming up to date. They will be 8 weeks old & ready for new homes on 22/01/24. Based Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Hi guys! New here, and hoping to pick the brains of your collective expertise, if I may? I have inherited a few acres of land, that hasn't had any stock on it for over two decades. Or anything done to it for that matter! My two horses have been put on there, and I acquired 5 Shetland ewes to...

Have had what has turned out to be a neospora outbreak, not sure on source but 20% of 170 adult cows have aborted most of which in a 3 week period and milk testing at drying off looks like another 50%+ is infected, how have people got on managing a large neospora outbreak out of a herd?

16 month old stot here is scouring non stop. Started to look a bit scoury when he was outside end of october, but never got him in until mid November, dosed with panacur, did nothing. Sent in a dung sample and it's free of worms and fluke. Herd is bvd negative, and we don't bring anything in...

Sorry if this has already been discussed. We went to a seminar in the summer with our vets who told us about the upcoming sheep attestation and small farm productivity grant for worms in sheep. We were advised to apply for this and double it up with the sheep attestation. The grant would cover...

If you had a blank canvas and you wanted to put up a shed or possibly two for holding 200-240 beef head what designs would people think off. We are thinking locking yokes, 18ft scrap passage, concrete panels dividing scrape passage off straw yards. Interest in how you access the straw yards to...

Has anyone had experience of getting one of these yet and the cost involved.I understand if not part of an assurance scheme you ll need one from the 13th of this month when selling animals destined for the food chain.

Annual health and welfare review of livestock now available to more farmers in England Written by Stewart Houston CBE The last time I wrote a blog post was in February, when I shared that the first step on the Animal Health and Welfare Pathway, the annual health and welfare review of...

Can it pay ? We are farming four blocks one is two minutes walk but two are 15 minutes by car Chap on the phone to me was saying his tractor finance was over £600 a month ( plus vehicle finance, plus farm rent etc etc ) They cover ground up to an hour away yet he said to me , 500 odd sheep...

Just had a call from a surveying company about our tractor buying. Was offering a £20 voucher else I wouldn't have bothered. Asked which brands we had, then asked which we would consider next time, he reeled off a load of tractor manufacturers, I told him the ones I may be interested in, but...