- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Can you provide a link to that claim? I’ve certainly never seen it.
Ovivac or heptivac for young lambs?
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Can you provide a link to that claim? I’ve certainly never seen it.
- Location
- The North
Ha ha I will try cut and paste it here, just have to find it again first!
- Location
- N.Lincs
Well, when you find who it was be sure to email him and tell him from me he's wrong.
Our ewes have been on the Heptavac system for yonks and it certainly hasn't stopped them getting mastitis
Is it any better with outdoor lambing ?Well, when you find who it was be sure to email him and tell him from me he's wrong.
Our ewes have been on the Heptavac system for yonks and it certainly hasn't stopped them getting mastitis
No, I was having problem last year with outdoor lambers (never seen a shed) and the vet said I need to clean the shed out more regularly
. Also said that she had never heard of ewes dying form mastitis, so didn't give me much confidence in her abilities as a sheep vet!
- Location
- Galloway
I think you need a new vetNo, I was having problem last year with outdoor lambers (never seen a shed) and the vet said I need to clean the shed out more regularly
- Location
- N.Lincs
We only lamb a few hill sheep outside (and only for the last 2 years which have been very good weather-wise) and, touch wood, we've never had a case of mastitis in them.
IMHO, very milky ewes, who's lambs don't 'milk them out' every time, lying on cold wet ground ,orf, sore teats etc are all contributary factors.
The old welsh vet there is very good. But seams to employ young blonde female vets for there first couple of years!
I think the wind has a lot to do with it. Got a valley where the east wind blows up and one year had 100 yearling with twins there and when came to shearing time 40 had bad bags! I don’t put ewes and lambs there now.
- Location
- The North
Well I spent an hour reading all the shite I read yesterday off the drug makers, nadis, Adhb and some other research on pasturella and I can’t find sh!t, I can only assume I’ve skim read it as it mentions mastitis in one of the researches but does not say it helps... I must have skim read and assumed it helps? 
ha ha just goes to show don’t believe owt you read on forums
ha ha just goes to show don’t believe owt you read on forums
I guess you can’t really select for it can you?
They self select really because I don’t keep the crap lambs out of ewes will bad bags. Should keep them with long tails really but then they will get strike.
livestock 1
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Pray for warm weather and no east winds
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
iirc the Texel Society are trying to, as they accept that the breed is particularly susceptible.
You should have medicine cabinet like mineGenerally find most vets don’t see enough ewes to be any more skilled than a good shepherd
Had our second mastitus case this morning, and she is a bad fettle and forgot to put any drugs in the pickup so going to,have to go back to her know.
cotswoldcs
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- Location
- Bang In the heart of the Cotswolds
Must have put up an old photo there @Electricfencer - judging by the expiry date on the bottle !!!
- Location
- N.Lincs
That’s for the pet lamb rearer.How many mls of Fanta do you give an average ewe?
Is it any good for mastitis
My bike box looks something similar but land away and dry so shepherding with pickup......note to self ....get more fecking organised