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Do you farm sheep in England, Wales, or Scotland?
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<blockquote data-quote="DrDunc" data-source="post: 7773212" data-attributes="member: 615"><p>I believe it's been a goal at the moredun for well over two decades, so don't hold your breathe waiting for it to arrive</p><p></p><p>Moredun research laboratory was (is?) at the bush estate on the side of the pentland hills South of Edinburgh.</p><p></p><p>Scab was so prevalent in the hills here, that the moredun began organising meetings with farmers to educate them on how to isolate and treat sheep.</p><p></p><p>The key problem was ensuring EVERY NEIGHBOUR had a full clean gather, and dipped their flock within a fortnight's window. It only takes ONE infected ewe, to restart the spread.</p><p></p><p>The scab mite can live up to 17 days on places where an infected ewe has rubbed, and OP dips really only give protection for about a fortnight, so it's critical everybody works together.</p><p></p><p>Injections like dectomax kill the mite, but offer NO protection from reinfection. If you put treated sheep back into the same field (or 2000 acre hill ground) straight away after injection, they get reinfected from mites living off host.</p><p></p><p>It got so bad in the pentland hills that walkers were being educated to help identify and locate infected ewes.</p><p></p><p>I really don't understand the point of this latest survey. This research has already been done repeatedly here on the moredun's doorstep.</p><p></p><p>It's already been proven here in the hills that full control and eradication requires education of the farmers with infected flocks, so I don't understand why research money is being spent reinventing this particular wheel?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrDunc, post: 7773212, member: 615"] I believe it's been a goal at the moredun for well over two decades, so don't hold your breathe waiting for it to arrive Moredun research laboratory was (is?) at the bush estate on the side of the pentland hills South of Edinburgh. Scab was so prevalent in the hills here, that the moredun began organising meetings with farmers to educate them on how to isolate and treat sheep. The key problem was ensuring EVERY NEIGHBOUR had a full clean gather, and dipped their flock within a fortnight's window. It only takes ONE infected ewe, to restart the spread. The scab mite can live up to 17 days on places where an infected ewe has rubbed, and OP dips really only give protection for about a fortnight, so it's critical everybody works together. Injections like dectomax kill the mite, but offer NO protection from reinfection. If you put treated sheep back into the same field (or 2000 acre hill ground) straight away after injection, they get reinfected from mites living off host. It got so bad in the pentland hills that walkers were being educated to help identify and locate infected ewes. I really don't understand the point of this latest survey. This research has already been done repeatedly here on the moredun's doorstep. It's already been proven here in the hills that full control and eradication requires education of the farmers with infected flocks, so I don't understand why research money is being spent reinventing this particular wheel? [/QUOTE]
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