lamb nozzle .........................needs a clean now......
and a bit of that particular type of oil in the barrel
and a bit of that particular type of oil in the barrel
Dosing guns
- Thread starter Andy84
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Paddington
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- Location
- Soggy Shropshire
How about a dosing gun with some form of marker incorporated to identify sheep if you are not using a race ? Perhaps a stock marker at the bottom of the handle, sure something has been invented in the past ?
Silicon oil it seems.
I wonder if the aerosol silicon spray would be ....................
I wonder if the aerosol silicon spray would be ....................
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
I thought veg. cooking oil was grand for keeping them right??
It also does no harm if you dose the animal with some...
I just open up to the biggest dose setting, plonk the pipe into a jug of hot water and pump away until everything inside looks clean, then put away in medicine cabinet until the next time
It also does no harm if you dose the animal with some...
I just open up to the biggest dose setting, plonk the pipe into a jug of hot water and pump away until everything inside looks clean, then put away in medicine cabinet until the next time
I thought veg. cooking oil was grand for keeping them right??
It also does no harm if you dose the animal with some...
I just open up to the biggest dose setting, plonk the pipe into a jug of hot water and pump away until everything inside looks clean, then put away in medicine cabinet until the next time
Silicon oil comes with the philips service kit.
*If left for awhile cooking oil goes tacky/solidify a bit and then play up with the one way valves.
i either tuck a big aerosol under my arm or use this pouch when i need to.....
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
https://www.techiongroup.co.nz/Products/SPOTCHEK
No idea if you can get them over here, or whether they'd be worth it if you could.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I thought veg. cooking oil was grand for keeping them right??
It also does no harm if you dose the animal with some...
I just open up to the biggest dose setting, plonk the pipe into a jug of hot water and pump away until everything inside looks clean, then put away in medicine cabinet until the next time
Should we not use a spot of engine oil, or anything else that's to hand then?
Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
Mine has been borrowed. I know who by and when I asked, he just looked blank!!!
Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
There was a thing to go on your palm holding a ram crayon on the back of your hand so you just twisted your wrist and did a wiping motion across the ewe's face.
Paddington
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- Location
- Soggy Shropshire
If I put a tin of stock marker in my pocket I usually get more over me than the sheep. I feel a Dragon's Den moment coming on !
the whole problem with all these guns except the prize winning samcro that zolvix use,is the plain fact that they are pointing in the wrong direction.
the sheep mostly are approached from behind so a gun that has the nozzle pointing towards the operator and with the trigger/pump part pointing forwards as in the zolvix one is totally better by design
- now the problem as i see it is ; apart from cheapness of build and mass production,is the mechanism that pushes the drench. - maybe that could be a more remote hydraulic mechanism with just the feed pipe turning the corner...much more expensive to build. of course .
*This where tapari misses a trick ir ....their drive/pump mechanism itself could be made more remote and turn that corner otherwise its basically the same as all the others in that way,and even more unwieldy/
the sheep mostly are approached from behind so a gun that has the nozzle pointing towards the operator and with the trigger/pump part pointing forwards as in the zolvix one is totally better by design
- now the problem as i see it is ; apart from cheapness of build and mass production,is the mechanism that pushes the drench. - maybe that could be a more remote hydraulic mechanism with just the feed pipe turning the corner...much more expensive to build. of course .
*This where tapari misses a trick ir ....their drive/pump mechanism itself could be made more remote and turn that corner otherwise its basically the same as all the others in that way,and even more unwieldy/
Should we not use a spot of engine oil, or anything else that's to hand then?
...............no because the o ring will expand ......
Lovegoodstock
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- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Do fluke and wormer with cattle a fortnight after bringing in, sounds a faf but really isn't, have 3 guns of different weights settings, hung heaviest first then mid weight then lightest so really no chance of misdose. Then a flash of weight and you have a dose ready without wasting any with overdosng. May not work for everyone but I run a reasonable number so bunches are of a fairly similar weight. True im not going down that route with a bunch of 500 ewes to do!!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
Ah, but you've lashed out 3 x £50 on drenching guns (assuming you've bought fancy ones), when you could have had a single £850 one that does the difficult 'squeeze' bit for you too. Oh, hang on......
Do they actually sell any of these TePari guns, if so who to? What happens if the beast coughs a bit out? Can you give them 'a bit' more, or will it just squeeze another full dose as per the weigh head's instructions? Or perhaps such things never happen in TePari World.
Lovegoodstock
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- Location
- Buckinghamshire
No, free with drench, not flash!! Why do you still get plenty free with cattle wormer?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Do with sheep wormer too, on occasion. Maybe they're just not cheeky enough to ask down in the West Country?
Lovegoodstock
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- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Anyone remember the panacur days, with was it Dave Weaver. Stocks still lasting but we are seriously running dry now
scatterbrainedlass
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- Location
- Lancashire
Bought a bottle of spot on and there was no dosing gun with it.... Freebies? What are they?
Just had the mrs working out on average (she's good at maths) if on average we overdose sheep with 3mls of wormer at £25 a litre you would have to worm to the correct dose 10,650 sheep for it to pay for its self