Fat lambs in the shed

[jed]

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]

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?

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Do you have to trim their feet to expose them to the ab or just put them in untrimmed?

Minimal trimming. Only taking excess hoof off that would have collected bedding straight away

 

[spin cycle]

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

 

[Woolless]

Withdrawal period generally the problem

Alamycin La used to be good for that job with a nine day withdrawal. It's up to 24 days now.

 

[gatepost]

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!

 

[neilo]

Alamycin La used to be good for that job with a nine day withdrawal. It's up to 24 days now.

Officially, as Lincospectin/Tylan powder in a footbath is 'off label' use, the withdrawal period would be 28 days with that too I would think.

 

[P Hughes]

 

[Lili]

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Its very confusing why this has exactly the same ingredients/strength but far longer withdrawal.

 

[farmerm]

Have never seen a sheep with foxtrot !

Not even after drinking one too many Whiskey with Juliet Alpha Tango

 

[Anymulewilldo]

View attachment 1002037Its very confusing why this has exactly the same ingredients/strength but far longer withdrawal.

Proves one of them is talking …

 

[neilo]

View attachment 1002037Its very confusing why this has exactly the same ingredients/strength but far longer withdrawal.

Is the Tetroxy a long acting version though?
I’ve used Tetroxy LA in the past, and it had ‘LA’ on the front label.

 

[Farmer Keith]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Highland Mule]

Is the Tetroxy a long acting version though?
I’ve used Tetroxy LA in the past, and it had ‘LA’ on the front label.

Tetroxy LA is 28 days for sheep.

 

[hally]

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

So you think these store lamb buyers are doing it for fun

 

[neilo]

Tetroxy LA is 28 days for sheep.

Similar to the Alamycin LA that it was being compared to upthread then.

 

[Estate fencing.]

So you think these store lamb buyers are doing it for fun

It’s great fun having 5000 lambs in sheds, people are queuing up to sort all the lame lambs out.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

It’s great fun having 5000 lambs in sheds, people are queuing up to sort all the lame lambs out.

At this moment, as I sit here warming up. Listening too my waterproofs dripping onto the floor where they are hung… I’d put the bloody lot inside tomorrow if I had the space!!!