Drenching ewes with young lambs

[Andyt880]

I am thinking of drenching my ewes with superverm (fluke and worm) before letting them out after lambing. I was planning on doing them when the lambs are 2 days old (also tailing lambs as I go) and then let them out 1 or 2 days later depending on the weather. The ewes have been housed since January and are starting to lamb down now. I am just wondering if it is safe enough to do this when the ewe is feeding young lambs? My thoughts were that they would be better flushed out in the house than when out on the new clean grass.

 

[beardface]

I’d of thought you’d be better with fasimec duo or combinex, wouldn’t want to give ewes a white drench at all unless you want to build memories resistance. Are they ewes fairly fit and do they need doing would be my first thoughts? Triplets poss clear or yellow combi with fluke if they need doing for fluke and then fluke only product for the others, if they need doing for fluke. Have you fec any, be fairly easy to collect some dung while there in shed.

 

[Agrivator]

It is perfectly safe to drench the ewes regardless of any lambs of whatever age.
But as beardface said, make sure you use the right product.

 

[Andyt880]

I’d of thought you’d be better with fasimec duo or combinex, wouldn’t want to give ewes a white drench at all unless you want to build memories resistance. Are they ewes fairly fit and do they need doing would be my first thoughts? Triplets poss clear or yellow combi with fluke if they need doing for fluke and then fluke only product for the others, if they need doing for fluke. Have you fec any, be fairly easy to collect some dung while there in shed.

My ewes are good and fit and have loads of milk. This is my first year having ewes with lambs so I wasn’t sure it was advisable or not to do this. So which drench would be best for what I want to do? The ground they are going out to has been grazed by sheep for 3 or 4 years in a row but hadn’t any sheep on it before that for a good few years. I haven’t had any noticeable problems with fluke so far.

 

[AvonValleyFarmer]

Get a few egg counts done, absolutely no point in dosing if not needed.

White drench for Nemotodirus in lambs.

 

[Andyt880]

Ok I’ll speak to my vet about doing egg counts.

 

[neilo]

I’d of thought you’d be better with fasimec duo or combinex, wouldn’t want to give ewes a white drench at all unless you want to build memories resistance. Are they ewes fairly fit and do they need doing would be my first thoughts? Triplets poss clear or yellow combi with fluke if they need doing for fluke and then fluke only product for the others, if they need doing for fluke. Have you fec any, be fairly easy to collect some dung while there in shed.

No. If they've been housed since January, they won't have any immature fluke (if they have any at all - Biobest cuproantigen test is about £15 now). Any triclobendazole fluke drench would be the wrong product to use at this time.