Fat lambs in the shed

jed

Member
Location
Shropshire
Was told in the summer to put bucket of gritting salt in the bath with the formalin .
Must admit sounded like a old wives tale but it seems to have worked better than anything else I’ve tried and we’ve tried just about everything to get on top of the foot rot problems we get here.
Draxin seems to be the only effect antibiotic but wow money!
 

hilux

Member
Location
south Wales
I’d have a serious look at Lincoln spectin or Tylan soluble in your foot bath. I’ve not had too use it for a few years but when it got really bad one winter I did 3 days of tylan soluble footbath, cleaned shed out, limed then rebedded. Different sheep altogether a week later
Do you have to trim their feet to expose them to the ab or just put them in untrimmed?
 

spin cycle

Member
Location
north norfolk
Was told in the summer to put bucket of gritting salt in the bath with the formalin .
Must admit sounded like a old wives tale but it seems to have worked better than anything else I’ve tried and we’ve tried just about everything to get on top of the foot rot problems we get here.
Draxin seems to be the only effect antibiotic but wow money!

[ use salt in lambing pens.......might be worth salting the bedding
 

gatepost

Member
Location
Cotswolds
Have finished indoors for years, a lot less bother since feeding best hay or silage along side the pellets, used to do on pellets and straw but got a lot of hot feet, dry bed or similar seems to help a lot, don't used formalin, causes more problems than cures IMO, tin hat!
 

P Hughes

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Livestock Farmer
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Farmer Keith

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Location
North Cumbria
Brought them in once here about 10 years ago and still don’t get the attraction. If my ground was too wet to do it outside they’d be straight in the store seems they’re often worth more there anyways
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Brought them in once here about 10 years ago and still don’t get the attraction. If my ground was too wet to do it outside they’d be straight in the store seems they’re often worth more there anyways

I've a couple of hundred in the shed now, and they're certainly glad to be in. Everything out in the fields is spending much of their time with their backs up under the hedges, so won't be putting on weight.

I did put a hopper out in the field to these, before it came cold/wet, and they were hardly putting anything on once the grass was gone. I did only lose one though, as they transitioned to concentrates more slowly. Since they came in, intakes have increased and they are motoring again. They do a hell of a lot better in a shed IMO, but obviously at a cost.
 

Hooby Farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
roe valley
Kilco envirex might help the feet inside with bacteria, it’s not dusty to use like lime and absorbs moisture rapidly, I used it this lambing after a worker swore by it and definitely saw a huge improvement in health.

Been using one called Acti San the last couple of years, its been brilliant use it every other day between bedding.
 

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