Garlic blocks

[jwm12]

Anyone any experience of garlic licks for sheep to keep flies away?

 

[Bones]

I bought a couple of buckets a few years a go for ewes and lambs , totally devoured in less than 24 hours ,

 

[Matt77]

We use for cattle and have for last 6-7 years, some years they pile into them others not so much, still get flies but we believe we get lot less and feel the cattle come back in in the winter all the better for extra minerals they get. New forest eye is much less common since we have used the buckets, still get odd one.

 

[Sid]

We use it for all cattle except milkers start early

 

[Still Farming]

I looked at the ad for these and it states works as sheep eat after a while the garlic secreates through the skin and ward off flies etc.
Does this then result in garlic lamb chops too ???

 

[llamedos]

I think they work, use the Nutrilick ones - strathclyde nutrition.
Multi stock, and they are not sweet, quite salty, and very garlicky - horse and sheep both lick away at them, and they dont melt away in the rain. Stock dont go mad at them.
Got another variety one year, and they were sweetish - didnt last very long, and gave them all the squits

 

[newbie]

I looked at the ad for these and it states works as sheep eat after a while the garlic secreates through the skin and ward off flies etc.
Does this then result in garlic lamb chops too ???

Dunno but you could of just hit on the next consumer fad. Start your marketing for garlic lamb now and charge them more for it

 

[Still Farming]

Passive food flavouring ???

 

[jwm12]

Many thanks for the replies, Crystalx are selling a garlic version over here (N. Ireland), I take it theres not a withdrawal period for the flavour!

 

[Pan mixer]

They used to have a 28 day withdrawal for meat didn't they?

 

[neilo]

I've got a supplier of a special oil that I could pass on. I believe it's extracted from some very rare snakes, but keep that under your hat or everyone will be onto it.

 

[Alicecow]

Passive food flavouring ???

Pre-marinated

 

[Alicecow]

Was reading on a horsey forum and they were saying that it also keeps the dung beetles etc away so dung takes longer to break down than non-garlicked. Not saying they're right, but that's what some were saying.

 

[Bury the Trash]

tea tree oil for horses ......