My Pruex trial

[beardface]

Anyone used the foam on sheep yet? Very interested in the whole pruex stuff, but not got around to trying it yet. Usually get scad ld in some groups of lambs at this time of year, currently got a bit more than I'd like. Tend to Bath them and then again in a week if it's still an issue and they tend to be fine then until sale. Wonder if I'd be better putti g then through the foam the second time to help spread good bacteria over the paddock after treatment as well as populate the foot with good bacteria. Also anyone else doing like @Ysgythan and spraying on pasture? Wonder if applications around potential congregation or lambing spots pre lamb and then maybe even a random broadacre application with the bike and boom less nozzle post lambing would help reduce joint ill, scald mastitis etc.

 

[Ysgythan]

Anyone used the foam on sheep yet? Very interested in the whole pruex stuff, but not got around to trying it yet. Usually get scad ld in some groups of lambs at this time of year, currently got a bit more than I'd like. Tend to Bath them and then again in a week if it's still an issue and they tend to be fine then until sale. Wonder if I'd be better putti g then through the foam the second time to help spread good bacteria over the paddock after treatment as well as populate the foot with good bacteria. Also anyone else doing like @Ysgythan and spraying on pasture? Wonder if applications around potential congregation or lambing spots pre lamb and then maybe even a random broadacre application with the bike and boom less nozzle post lambing would help reduce joint ill, scald mastitis etc.

Foam works for dairy cattle leaving a parlour over the exactly the same piece of concrete twice a day. The foam is the delivery mechanism for the good bugs so they get up between the cloves of the hooves. The reason I spray in and around the creep and around the water trough is to use the grass there as a replacement delivery mechanism, where I know the lambs go regularly.

 

[TristanP]

Could you use the foam in one of those sheep footbath mats - pour it on and it foam up through the mat as they walk across it? If so could it be used going in/out sheds, around troughs, feeders, in field gateways as they move?

 

[beardface]

Foam works for dairy cattle leaving a parlour over the exactly the same piece of concrete twice a day. The foam is the delivery mechanism for the good bugs so they get up between the cloves of the hooves. The reason I spray in and around the creep and around the water trough is to use the grass there as a replacement delivery mechanism, where I know the lambs go regularly.

How often do you spray round creeps, gates etc.?

 

[Ysgythan]

How often do you spray round creeps, gates etc.?

Every day if I can.

 

[Ysgythan]

Bit of an update. I had a long chat with Aled yesterday, and from work on digital dermatitis in cattle, it seems scald needs fighting on multiple fronts, not just the spraying. Better you contact him direct really, I couldn’t do justice to it in here - https://www.pruex.co.uk/

 

[beardface]

Bit of an update. I had a long chat with Aled yesterday, and from work on digital dermatitis in cattle, it seems scald needs fighting on multiple fronts, not just the spraying. Better you contact him direct really, I couldn’t do justice to it in here - https://www.pruex.co.uk/

Spoke to him on Saturday after e-mailing and will be booking him to come so he can take some swabs and discuss which products we need to try sheep, beef and pigs here.

 

[Ysgythan]

Bit of an update. My Dad checked his diary in the week and bought coccidiosis drench because he was worried that we’d drenched the lambs twice for it last year. We got the lambs in and I told him there’s no signs we don’t need to do it. The drench remains in its bottle. The difference between this year and last year is spraying the creep feeders. We started doing that part way through the season last year, but have done it throughout this year. I spoke to Aled and he says the treatment reduces coccidiosis in chicken sheds. If it can work there the creep feeder is small beer...

 

[blackieman83]

Have a mate who trains racehorses, was telling him about Pruex after reading this thread, any recommendations for what product he should use for his stables?

 

[neilo]

Have a mate who trains racehorses, was telling him about Pruex after reading this thread, any recommendations for what product he should use for his stables?

I’d suggest it best he has a chat with Aled (number’s on the Pruex website), so he can discuss what he’s trying to get from it, etc.

 

[blackieman83]

I’d suggest it best he has a chat with Aled (number’s on the Pruex website), so he can discuss what he’s trying to get from it, etc.

Cheers will tell him to give him a call.

 

[Davy]

Keen to try some of the animal House stabiliser on calf shed bedding to reduce the ammonia smell. Do you need the mister for it to do a job or could you use something like a garden spray gun?

 

[neilo]

Keen to try some of the animal House stabiliser on calf shed bedding to reduce the ammonia smell. Do you need the mister for it to do a job or could you use something like a garden spray gun?

If you speak to Aled, he’d be able to advise as to what to use, and probably what people have got away with.

 

[neilo]

Just starting lambing here, so new ‘lambing essentials’ have turned up.?

 

[yellowbelly]

new ‘lambing essentials’

New lambing essentials and a new website - steady on

New website is very impressive btw

 

[blackieman83]

Have a mate who trains racehorses, was telling him about Pruex after reading this thread, any recommendations for what product he should use for his stables?

Been talking to him lately and has all good things to say about both the product he was supplied and the service he has received.

 

[MrA.G.]

Keen to try some of the animal House stabiliser on calf shed bedding to reduce the ammonia smell. Do you need the mister for it to do a job or could you use something like a garden spray gun?

Where you at the pruex talk in garvagh?

 

[Davy]

Where you at the pruex talk in garvagh?

I was

 

[mac]

Glad I’ve found this thread after starting a new one anyone experience in reducing pneumonia in suckler herds with his products?

mac

 

[Gulli]

Does it do anything for ringworm?