startinghandle
Member
Local farmer near Newtown told me he had to wait a week for the mobile dipping contractor as scab is rampant about
Is it the same around the country?
Is it the same around the country?
Sheep scab about in mid wales
- Thread starter startinghandle
- Start date
- Location
- Fife
No. Wales is horrific for scab. To the extent that anything which came out of a Welsh livestock market, or from common grazing, I'd insist it be dipped.
In Scotland scab is still a notifiable disease.
- Location
- Fife
Neil Fell is excellent and week get to you asap. I've never had to wait more than 10 days
- Location
- North Wales
6weeks to ensure all embryos are safe and inbedded. If the tups have been in 6weeks, the first ones to take will be fine but the one that took the tup on the last day will need the 6weeks to be safe or risk losing the pregnancy and scan empty.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Where do you get the 6 week figure from, although better safe than sorry obviously?
I wouldn’t be two concerned from 2 weeks after the last one was tupped personally, which should see embryos implanted safely.
However, if they’re itching with scab, I wouldn’t hesitate to crack on as the scab will be stressing them more than dipping would.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Don't you jab anymore
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Dipped whole flock plus lambs end of July, whilst taking lambs off for buyer end sept, we noticed a few of a neighbour’s lambs in, probably off the moor, buyer said they had scab, so as a goodwill gesture I knocked a bit off to cover him dipping.
Any way I kept 100 lambs as replacement’s and dectomaxed them, now my in by ewes are itching and neighbours ewes on moor look like they have been itching , so the dipper is booked , other thing with dip , everything is covered so I am not fannying about with crovect etc
Only downside I have is the tups are in with our in bye ewes
hubbahubba
Member
- Location
- Sunny Glasgow
After dipping how long are sheep protected for?
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Someone will know better … but I was thinking 60 days ish
49 days as far as i know
- Location
- North Wales
The egg may have implanted in two weeks but it's not considered safe for another month.
But if you do a few more maths. Hopefully most ewes would hold to the first cycle so would be 4 weeks safe by week 6 after tups in so two weeks after the tups are out (after 6weeks) and most would be safe. But the second cycle and and last to tup would still be at risk of loosing embryos. It's not like dipping isn't stressful to a sheep.
Pistonbroke
Member
Not as long as the old stuff for sure. People assume the withdrawal period is how long it works for but it's nothing like. Ticks can be back in a fortnight
- Location
- Fife
I've always thought it was 6 weeks post fertilisation was the most dangerous time for early embryo loss.
Pistonbroke
Member
The way they're dipped would make the most difference. Being chucked in down a slide and having to climb out is different to a cage lowering and lifting them back out
- Location
- Ceredigion
That's why I used to jab , less stressful then Dip latter
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
As an aside, how effective is dectomax for treatment of scab ?
We have tups in since 15 oct , planning on dipping end November, but our outside lambers won’t have tups on for two weeks yet
We have tups in since 15 oct , planning on dipping end November, but our outside lambers won’t have tups on for two weeks yet
- Location
- Fife
It's not.
- Location
- Ceredigion
You have to jab twice with ivomec ,it worked OK here at lambing time