Dosing guns

[Northeastfarmer]

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

 

[Leereade]

So if the average farm has 500 ewes and worms let's say twice a year 10 years to pay for its self

 

[Al R]

So if the average farm has 500 ewes and worms let's say twice a year 10 years to pay for its self

I can guarantee it'd be fubared by then!

 

[Leereade]

I can guarantee it'd be fubared by then!

I'm guessing that means fooked lol

 

[Al R]

Do with sheep wormer too, on occasion. Maybe they're just not cheeky enough to ask down in the West Country?

Bought 30L of Levacur SC the other day and didn't get a free gun

 

[Al R]

I'm guessing that means fooked lol

Wasn't sure if that was allowed on the forum so used the American WW2 version

 

[neilo]

Anyone remember the panacur days, with was it Dave Weaver. Stocks still lasting but we are seriously running dry now

He'd have been a while back. I still have a couple of 5ml Phillips steel vaccinators that came via him, but tend to use freebies now and keep the Phillips for special occasions.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Found some lambs with maggots on grass keep and to buy some Crovect from a new (to me) merchant.Asked for a free gun,He said" when you get a box of cartridges you don't get the f#####g gun do you?".

 

[exmoor dave]

Crovect gun I find far better than the Dysect one.

And why haven't they fixed those leaking side bits on the dysect nozzle yet! !!! Same guns been supplied like that for years now

 

[exmoor dave]

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.

Well let's not just have half the story, the selling point of the £850 model is that it receives the weight of the animal and automatically adjusts the dose each time and records against that animal,
Which to be fair is pretty amazing.


Still too much dosh though IMO

 

[Leereade]

Well let's not just have half the story, the selling point of the £850 model is that it receives the weight of the animal and automatically adjusts the dose each time and records against that animal,
Which to be fair is pretty amazing.


Still too much dosh though IMO

That's what I've just had my mrs do the maths on that model

 

[Al R]

We've been Levacur SC'ing pre lambing and were doing it roughly on weight, had the weigh scales on, average group of 1 lot, 90kg so set at 45kg per dose. For 80kg go a bit less, for over 95kg go a bit more on the dial, worked very well, ewes we thought were 70-80kg were actually 85-95kg so yes we used more dose each animal had what it should have had for its weight so no under dosing and hopefully less chance of resistance! Only got a simple weigh scales screen so couldn't adapt any more than that. Twin bearing ewe lambs are averaging 75kg (march born) 3-4 were in the late 60's but were welsh x BFL. A few strong ones were over 80kg :0

 

[Bury the Trash]

http://simcro.com/simcro-wins-at-2009-best-design-awards/

like everything else in the world today its about money i guess .....

 

[Bury the Trash]

Well let's not just have half the story, the selling point of the £850 model is that it receives the weight of the animal and automatically adjusts the dose each time and records against that animal,
Which to be fair is pretty amazing.


Still too much dosh though IMO

does it sense air bubbles. i would rather overdose than underdose.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

In my 40 years of dosing it is the Thibenzole paste gun that I remember most fondly. I was aghast when I found out that they had stopped producing the paste formulation. I got the Phillips glass and alloy one after, which has lasted until this year.

 

[exmoor dave]

does it sense air bubbles. i would rather overdose than underdose.

I don't know to be honest

&I guess because it's powered, you wouldn't have the "feel" when there's air in the barrel.

 

[exmoor dave]

In my 40 years of dosing it is the Thibenzole paste gun that I remember most fondly. I was aghast when I found out that they had stopped producing the paste formulation. I got the Phillips glass and alloy one after, which has lasted until this year.

Dad often regales stories of drenching being a two man job- one filling little glass bottles, the other drenching sheep with said glass bottles!

&what they were drenching with had to be done in the right quantity or the animal died!

 

[Nithsdale]

Dad often regales stories of drenching being a two man job- one filling little glass bottles, the other drenching sheep with said glass bottles!

&what they were drenching with had to be done in the right quantity or the animal died!

We still have a few dosing bottles here, from grandpa's time. Dosing guns are a wonderus, futuristic invention

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Dad often regales stories of drenching being a two man job- one filling little glass bottles, the other drenching sheep with said glass bottles!

&what they were drenching with had to be done in the right quantity or the animal died!

I'm guessing that was carbon tetrachloride for fluke. Kill or cure!!!
I never used the bottles but did use a squeeze bulb with 4 inches of pipe as a nozzle. I think Coopers provided them with their worm drench which was liquid paraffin to all intents. 2 sizes of bulb for ewes and lambs.

 

[Pistonbroke]

My biggest gripe is having different tops on drench bottles and different tops on injection bottles.If they were standard fitting it would justify spending more on the guns