Dosing guns
- Thread starter Andy84
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Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
The free ones
- Location
- West Wales
N J Phillips used you've really good but haven't used one for years now. Can't remember what we're using now but sone are way better than others!
Anyone tried a TePari?
Anyone tried a TePari?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
The Zolvix guns are great, but only hold up to 8ml. I have a couple of ancient Phillips & Henke (IIRC) guns that still work well. Tend to use freebies most of the time though.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
The old metal ICU guns were good.
Currently use a 30ml one like this
Very good, very reliable, easy to adjust.
There's less freebies getting handed out now it seems, and the last one I got were total crap.
Currently use a 30ml one like this
Very good, very reliable, easy to adjust.
There's less freebies getting handed out now it seems, and the last one I got were total crap.
Lovegoodstock
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- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Still got a couple of metal lamb dosing guns with glass barrel. My partner broke the glass on one 5 years ago at shearing time, its a bloody miracle we lasted!!
- Location
- Fife
Not yet. I'm hoping to have one (with the catcher to go with it) next spring!
I saw it at NSA South Sheep and thought it was an amazing idea. I can see such things becoming increasingly important as the spectre of worm resistance looms ever larger, and as an industry we come under pressure to use less drugs.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
£600 for a dosing gun...the way the sheep job is even the free ones are too expensive
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
£800 for the auto calibration EID linked one! Which is really the one that has the selling point.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I'll stick with scrounging a free one every year
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
15 ml zolvix gun would be great.
Zolvix gun really is very good, I'd *almost* even pay for one!
Esp as my painstakingly built up stock of free guns is know starting to diminish!
- Location
- Fife
Get it bought Dave. You know you want the whole set...
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
Have entered the competition and keeping fingers crossed
TBH it would take some justifying for sheep, or at least my system,
As nearly all pour ons are set doses, ewe drenches are done in lambing pens - blanket dose, nearly all lamb dosing is pre-weaning- so I wouldn't be clamping them.
After weaning is the place it would work as I'm weighing every two weeks, but I'm moving to just drenching on DLWG (or lack of) so hopefully a big reduction in drenching.
IMO it's cattle where the big savings would be, we're slowly heading towards regular weighing of cattle, but realistically £800 buys alot of meds
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
15 ml zolvix gun would be great.
Zolvix gun really is very good, I'd *almost* even pay for one!
Esp as my painstakingly built up stock of free guns is know starting to diminish!
Been building my stock up again steadily. Most of my lamb wormer has come through Wynnstay for the last 2 years. They always seem to have a 'farmer pack' of 12.5L of Ivermectin drench, with an FOC gun, for the price of 10L. They know how to sell to farmers.......just off a freebie/hidden cost item and we'll lap it up.
Our local Fibrophos salesman called in yesterday with some free pens, just because he heard I'd had a spreader full from someone else. @Kevtherev
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I've found Mole Valley's own dosing guns to be very good, pity local branch never seems to have any in stock!
or this little cheaper phillips one for lambs
the crovect pouron gun lasts well for the money also