TexX ewes - which Tup to use?

[Nithsdale]

Friday kill at Vivers is actually a kill day for Scotbeef...

 

[Nithsdale]

Not sure what the score is, but my lambs were knocked back to go to Vivers on Sunday instead of tomorrow... I explained how the pour on had ran out and that wasn't good for me as I was getting bother. So we've agreed they'll be killed next Friday instead, so long as I fetch them in and spray them today

2 were struck on Monday, and 2 were struck today put the gripper in the race and watched for any dirty bums to give them a clean. There were 1 or 2 but really not many at all. Gave them a tidy up and weighed any big looking lambs... there were 38 drawn last week, now upto 52. Itl depend if they want the struck ones (one was quite raw looking so doubt itl can go but the rest might be OK), itl make a decent trailer load.

Just in for a cuppa after a lamb jumped as I opened the crate gate and battered my thumb off some steel. Bit of swelling and blood, I'll be fine. Atleast the dog is concerned

Finish this then I'll go spray them. Think I'll do the ewes too, for peace of mind (might help cull some of the fly population too)

 

[yellowbelly]

a lamb jumped as I opened the crate gate and battered my thumb off some steel. Bit of swelling and blood,

@primmiemoo will be pleased it wasn't your chin

 

[primmiemoo]

Ouch, Nith! Poor thumb.

@primmiemoo will be pleased it wasn't your chin

Steady on, there ...

 

[Nithsdale]

@primmiemoo will be pleased it wasn't your chin

Don't mention the chin

 

[Nithsdale]

What a 10 days I've had since last posting

Last Friday (12th July) I was back into shearing. 140 Scotch Mules knocked off in the heat!! In a really stuffy sheep shed on an exposed hill. It's well sealed up because through the winter, rain and snow really get driven into it from all angles, but it makes it a killer in the summer - and I had forgotten to bring my big fan

The weekend off was needed to recover, I was exhausted on Saturday - wondering if we were close to heat exhaustion Can't remember what I was at on the Monday now but back shearing another 130 on Tuesday, but I had my fan that day and it was fine

My hill lambs have only ever had the pinstripe spray, for ticks. The hill is high and exposed, despite having a valley which is low with a burn in the floor and lots of trees - flies are never an issue. These lambs usually get sprayed as they come inbye at weaning.

Well I got home Tuesday night and brother said he had caught 4 lambs which were struck Wednesday morning he comes in from the hill saying there's another 4 needing seen to and 2 dead lambs he wanted the store cattle in for fluke and worming so we get them fetched in straight away and I leave him and dad to it whilst I gather the hill.

Everything brought right into the farm. There were quite a few struck, some quite badly. It got to the point I ditched the Jakoti's and set up the shearing machine sickening does not describe it. Almost all were struck in clean wool, up on the shoulders. I can only assume with the heat last week, they got very sweaty and found shelter down at the burn where the flies had a bloody party I've never seen lambs struck so badly this time of year before (there are many years I don't spray any lambs at all!)

I've lost one or 2 lambs since treating. Hard lesson but not one I'll forget in a hurry.

Back shearing on Friday, 130 Blackies. That is us finished for the year.

My Suffolk lambs were shifted back, again from going on Thursday to going today... but the way my week has went, it was maybe the best thing that happened. My first lambs of 2018 left on the 19th July, and was a draw of 27. With the lambs gone today I'm sitting at 180 this year - with the first leaving a full month earlier than last year, and having had no creep.

The TexX ewes are coming back in tomorrow and I'll wean and worm the lambs and go through the ewes. I'll go through the Texel lambs and get another draw fat through the rest of the week.

 

[aangus]

What a 10 days I've had since last posting

Last Friday (12th July) I was back into shearing. 140 Scotch Mules knocked off in the heat!! In a really stuffy sheep shed on an exposed hill. It's well sealed up because through the winter, rain and snow really get driven into it from all angles, but it makes it a killer in the summer - and I had forgotten to bring my big fan

The weekend off was needed to recover, I was exhausted on Saturday - wondering if we were close to heat exhaustion Can't remember what I was at on the Monday now but back shearing another 130 on Tuesday, but I had my fan that day and it was fine

My hill lambs have only ever had the pinstripe spray, for ticks. The hill is high and exposed, despite having a valley which is low with a burn in the floor and lots of trees - flies are never an issue. These lambs usually get sprayed as they come inbye at weaning.

Well I got home Tuesday night and brother said he had caught 4 lambs which were struck Wednesday morning he comes in from the hill saying there's another 4 needing seen to and 2 dead lambs he wanted the store cattle in for fluke and worming so we get them fetched in straight away and I leave him and dad to it whilst I gather the hill.

Everything brought right into the farm. There were quite a few struck, some quite badly. It got to the point I ditched the Jakoti's and set up the shearing machine sickening does not describe it. Almost all were struck in clean wool, up on the shoulders. I can only assume with the heat last week, they got very sweaty and found shelter down at the burn where the flies had a bloody party I've never seen lambs struck so badly this time of year before (there are many years I don't spray any lambs at all!)

I've lost one or 2 lambs since treating. Hard lesson but not one I'll forget in a hurry.

Back shearing on Friday, 130 Blackies. That is us finished for the year.

My Suffolk lambs were shifted back, again from going on Thursday to going today... but the way my week has went, it was maybe the best thing that happened. My first lambs of 2018 left on the 19th July, and was a draw of 27. With the lambs gone today I'm sitting at 180 this year - with the first leaving a full month earlier than last year, and having had no creep.

The TexX ewes are coming back in tomorrow and I'll wean and worm the lambs and go through the ewes. I'll go through the Texel lambs and get another draw fat through the rest of the week.

Any idea on price for lambs this coming week?

 

[abitdaft]

What a 10 days I've had since last posting

Last Friday (12th July) I was back into shearing. 140 Scotch Mules knocked off in the heat!! In a really stuffy sheep shed on an exposed hill. It's well sealed up because through the winter, rain and snow really get driven into it from all angles, but it makes it a killer in the summer - and I had forgotten to bring my big fan

The weekend off was needed to recover, I was exhausted on Saturday - wondering if we were close to heat exhaustion Can't remember what I was at on the Monday now but back shearing another 130 on Tuesday, but I had my fan that day and it was fine

My hill lambs have only ever had the pinstripe spray, for ticks. The hill is high and exposed, despite having a valley which is low with a burn in the floor and lots of trees - flies are never an issue. These lambs usually get sprayed as they come inbye at weaning.

Well I got home Tuesday night and brother said he had caught 4 lambs which were struck Wednesday morning he comes in from the hill saying there's another 4 needing seen to and 2 dead lambs he wanted the store cattle in for fluke and worming so we get them fetched in straight away and I leave him and dad to it whilst I gather the hill.

Everything brought right into the farm. There were quite a few struck, some quite badly. It got to the point I ditched the Jakoti's and set up the shearing machine sickening does not describe it. Almost all were struck in clean wool, up on the shoulders. I can only assume with the heat last week, they got very sweaty and found shelter down at the burn where the flies had a bloody party I've never seen lambs struck so badly this time of year before (there are many years I don't spray any lambs at all!)

I've lost one or 2 lambs since treating. Hard lesson but not one I'll forget in a hurry.

Back shearing on Friday, 130 Blackies. That is us finished for the year.

My Suffolk lambs were shifted back, again from going on Thursday to going today... but the way my week has went, it was maybe the best thing that happened. My first lambs of 2018 left on the 19th July, and was a draw of 27. With the lambs gone today I'm sitting at 180 this year - with the first leaving a full month earlier than last year, and having had no creep.

The TexX ewes are coming back in tomorrow and I'll wean and worm the lambs and go through the ewes. I'll go through the Texel lambs and get another draw fat through the rest of the week.

I know it's no consolation but we have been hit here hard with mawks as have all of our neighbours. We have an inbye area where the cross ewes lie under tree's and it is a fly infested hole where even clean wool is fair game. We had a Texel hogg that was mawked from the shoulders to the kidney that had only been in a few days before for a dose. Nasty feckers!!

 

[Kip]

What a 10 days I've had since last posting

Last Friday (12th July) I was back into shearing. 140 Scotch Mules knocked off in the heat!! In a really stuffy sheep shed on an exposed hill. It's well sealed up because through the winter, rain and snow really get driven into it from all angles, but it makes it a killer in the summer - and I had forgotten to bring my big fan

The weekend off was needed to recover, I was exhausted on Saturday - wondering if we were close to heat exhaustion Can't remember what I was at on the Monday now but back shearing another 130 on Tuesday, but I had my fan that day and it was fine

My hill lambs have only ever had the pinstripe spray, for ticks. The hill is high and exposed, despite having a valley which is low with a burn in the floor and lots of trees - flies are never an issue. These lambs usually get sprayed as they come inbye at weaning.

Well I got home Tuesday night and brother said he had caught 4 lambs which were struck Wednesday morning he comes in from the hill saying there's another 4 needing seen to and 2 dead lambs he wanted the store cattle in for fluke and worming so we get them fetched in straight away and I leave him and dad to it whilst I gather the hill.

Everything brought right into the farm. There were quite a few struck, some quite badly. It got to the point I ditched the Jakoti's and set up the shearing machine sickening does not describe it. Almost all were struck in clean wool, up on the shoulders. I can only assume with the heat last week, they got very sweaty and found shelter down at the burn where the flies had a bloody party I've never seen lambs struck so badly this time of year before (there are many years I don't spray any lambs at all!)

I've lost one or 2 lambs since treating. Hard lesson but not one I'll forget in a hurry.

Back shearing on Friday, 130 Blackies. That is us finished for the year.

My Suffolk lambs were shifted back, again from going on Thursday to going today... but the way my week has went, it was maybe the best thing that happened. My first lambs of 2018 left on the 19th July, and was a draw of 27. With the lambs gone today I'm sitting at 180 this year - with the first leaving a full month earlier than last year, and having had no creep.

The TexX ewes are coming back in tomorrow and I'll wean and worm the lambs and go through the ewes. I'll go through the Texel lambs and get another draw fat through the rest of the week.

Flies are terrible this year, constantly watching our heifers for udder clap. My lambs haven’t been to bad, just keep giving them a quick spray every time they are being handled. Hopefully the price stands on at £4.00 , got 160 for Scotbeef on Wednesday

 

[Nithsdale]

I know it's no consolation but we have been hit here hard with mawks as have all of our neighbours. We have an inbye area where the cross ewes lie under tree's and it is a fly infested hole where even clean wool is fair game. We had a Texel hogg that was mawked from the shoulders to the kidney that had only been in a few days before for a dose. Nasty feckers!!

Aye they're nasty. The Blackies we clipped on Friday, 2 of them were struck. 1 quite bad. They run a bit higher than me and there's no trees within 1/4 a mile!! My mate couldn't believe it.

I'm hoping for a hard winter to kill the wee barstewards off

 

[Nithsdale]

Brothers out topping some rashes, just had a phonecall as I melt plittering at the yard... there's a ewe down hunkered in the rashes wouldn't get up. He jumped off tractor and her back is yellow with fit eggs says there's nothing wrong with her...

I load up bike and head up to him. Get her caught easy enough - she's young, very fit with no signs of illness. Clean wool - shorn 5-6 weeks ago so only 1cm of regrowth. She isn't just struck with eggs, she's got bloody maggots all up her tail head good job I took the Jakoti's with me! Trimmed her off and a spray of Vectocert she should be OK.

I've held off going through the Texel lambs this week with the heat (for my own benefit) but I might get them in tomorrow now I'm also considering spraying all the ewes with Dysect as I wean them. This is mental!

 

[Gator]

Brothers out topping some rashes, just had a phonecall as I melt plittering at the yard... there's a ewe down hunkered in the rashes wouldn't get up. He jumped off tractor and her back is yellow with fit eggs says there's nothing wrong with her...

I load up bike and head up to him. Get her caught easy enough - she's young, very fit with no signs of illness. Clean wool - shorn 5-6 weeks ago so only 1cm of regrowth. She isn't just struck with eggs, she's got bloody maggots all up her tail head good job I took the Jakoti's with me! Trimmed her off and a spray of Vectocert she should be OK.

I've held off going through the Texel lambs this week with the heat (for my own benefit) but I might get them in tomorrow now I'm also considering spraying all the ewes with Dysect as I wean them. This is mental!

Been out topping all day, not a sheep in sight, either hunkered under a wall or where ever they can find somewhere cool. Even wi the aircon on full it's still like a bloody cooker

 

[yellowbelly]

This is mental!

Welcome to my world - fly strike season starts in april and goes through to november some years
Click (if we could afford it) won't cover us for that long (and there's clipping in the middle) so we usually end up doing 'em twice with Dysect

 

[Nithsdale]

Welcome to my world - fly strike season starts in april and goes through to november some years
Click (if we could afford) it won't cover us for that long (and there's clipping in the middle) so we usually end up doing 'em twice with Dysect

Can't like that this is definitely not what I am used to!!

 

[scottish-lleyn]

I have been fighting a constant battle with struck sheep. This past few weeks gave in and treated everything. Dont normally do any. Funny old summer.

 

[Nithsdale]

I have been fighting a constant battle with struck sheep. This past few weeks gave in and treated everything. Dont normally do any. Funny old summer.

Just mind on, you're not alone

 

[Agrivator]

I load up bike and head up to him. Get her caught easy enough - she's young, very fit with no signs of illness. Clean wool - shorn 5-6 weeks ago so only 1cm of regrowth. She isn't just struck with eggs, she's got bloody maggots all up her tail head good job I took the Jakoti's with me! Trimmed her off and a spray of Vectocert she should be OK.

Never trim the wool of a sheep or lamb that is strucken. Carry a pair of rubber gloves, and make sure that whatever effective treatment you are applying is rubbed through the wool, but leave the wool cover in tact to aid a more rapid healing.

When headfly was a much more serious issue than it is now, sheep could become red raw between the ears. A layer of wool under a head-cap (piece of nylon stocking?) worked wonders.

PS. Headfly is less of a problem because their larvae feed on the larvae of dung beetles. But since the introduction of Ivermectin for cattle, its residue in the dung kills dung beetles, and so there are no larvae for headfly larvae to feed on.

And the absence of dung beetles is the reason why cow claps, left to their own devices, now take hundreds of years to break down.

 

[Nithsdale]

Never trim the wool of a sheep or lamb that is strucken. Carry a pair of rubber gloves, and make sure that whatever effective treatment you are applying is rubbed through the wool, but leave the wool cover in tact to aid a more rapid healing.

Trim and remove as many maggots as possible then treat the area as per directions on the bottle.

Even with gloves I'm not working in Cypermetherin by hand.

 

[Ysgythan]

Trim and remove as many maggots as possible then treat the area as per directions on the bottle.

Even with gloves I'm not working in Cypermetherin by hand.

At the risk of sounding like a Spot On salesman 5ml of Spot On where the main knots are. No need to work in it or trim.

 

[Nithsdale]

At the risk of sounding like a Spot On salesman 5ml of Spot On where the main knots are. No need to work in it or trim.

I've never used Spot On, but I've always got Crovect or Dysect in the medicine cabinet and they do the job