Footbathing sheep
- Thread starter glensman
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Nothing really other than if its the same as the footrot bug ...then that would actually mean resistance is possible to inherit as would be possibly, toughness of the skin between the digits. ??
some seem to get the bit of crap stuck between their feet more than others.or maybe the hair that grows on some of their skin makes a difference protection wise...
i dont know.
and did we see it more so, when the continentals came here. i cant remember.
- Location
- West Wales
If your going to do it do it properly........ Paul Hermann Muller said on his deathbed that there was nothing actually wrong with DDT, it was just used badly in the wrong context!
I know it’s easier to find with Lleyns then other breeds, but I’ll only buy a ram with black hoofs. No white at all in them. Find the black hoofs way better the white for problems like overgrown hoofs, foot rot and the like
We seem to get a lot of scald in lambs. We got a large plastic (cow) footbath , made a simple wooden frame at each end which supports 2 metal gates (12`) above the bath, put 80 l of water and 4 l of formalin in and walk the ewes and lambs through usually 3 times from clean concrete to clean concrete . A bit of straw may help first time but they soon go through no bother at all. NO WHERE NEAR THE SPLASHING/SWEARING GOING ON WE USED TO HAVE WITH A NARROW FOOTBATH!! Best done in a well ventilated area, and not when it`s too sunny - the fumes can get a bit too much even for real men!! Formalin is very cheap and does the trick but it still needs a few sessions and then a clean pasture helps.
PS I won`t use Dysect though!!
PS I won`t use Dysect though!!
Lovegoodstock
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- Location
- Buckinghamshire
im lucky that fumes from formalin don't, hopefully affect me. We do ours leaving an outside handling pen where they come in to be weighed/ sorted full selling each week. Used to running out of it same way, back to field, though we keep them shut on yard for a while to dry off, generally run through problem free. Do fully agree with bathing with formalin is far better not in direct sunlight as the fumes are far stronger, think this is obviously a big put off for sheep or lambs running through. Remember a dog we used to have, bought from a welsh hill farm and he was a great worker except when there was a bitch in season in village, often put him away and he kept going and going and going!! He regularly drank from formalin bath, before anyone says he had access to water, and our cattle troughs are not that bad!! But he seemed obsessed with it. Lived a fair old age until run over on one of his trips to the village!!
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
I've found breeds like Suffolk & Hampshires get scald plenty enough, but it stays as scald between the hoofs,
But when we had texels, not only would they be the first lambs in the mixed mob to get scald, they'd also get separation of the hoof on the hoofs.
Scalds the bane of my life at times
- Location
- Kent
+1 for that just don't get it neat on your digits it will take the skin off. We with use that or formalin but when we've had scale and the formalin hasn't seemed to do much this has but it means having to shift around the plastic bath and old poldenvale gates we have sheeted in k-board as I believe it strip galvanising away too.
We have an spongy mat in the bath so they don't get any glint or reflection and also helps open up the hoof and clean the muck out but even in that bath and set up formalin hasn't worked as well but the last lots we have had have been Strathclyde and not the black label stuff we used to get.