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Are the days of lambing inside numbered?
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<blockquote data-quote="Farmer Keith" data-source="post: 7234214" data-attributes="member: 16808"><p>I spent yesterday afternoon updating our flock health plans with the vet and conducting our annual AB review as part of which we discussed the use of prophylactic ABs namely Orojet on the farm here, now over the past 5 years we’ve halved its use from all lambs to only doing lambs with a higher risk of watery mouth ie triplets, ewes with less colostrum etc .</p><p></p><p>However next year Orojet will be no longer available it seems leaving Spectam as the only licensed AB to be used in the lambing shed. The direction of travel seems quite clear and I’m beginning to wonder if the writing is on the wall for inside lambing, there are undoubtably going to be occasions when the weather at lambing time is not as favourable as 2020 and it’s going to be an absolute nightmare, all of this against a backdrop of the sheep sector being the lowest user of ABs across the livestock sector. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite44" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmer Keith, post: 7234214, member: 16808"] I spent yesterday afternoon updating our flock health plans with the vet and conducting our annual AB review as part of which we discussed the use of prophylactic ABs namely Orojet on the farm here, now over the past 5 years we’ve halved its use from all lambs to only doing lambs with a higher risk of watery mouth ie triplets, ewes with less colostrum etc . However next year Orojet will be no longer available it seems leaving Spectam as the only licensed AB to be used in the lambing shed. The direction of travel seems quite clear and I’m beginning to wonder if the writing is on the wall for inside lambing, there are undoubtably going to be occasions when the weather at lambing time is not as favourable as 2020 and it’s going to be an absolute nightmare, all of this against a backdrop of the sheep sector being the lowest user of ABs across the livestock sector. :banghead: [/QUOTE]
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