Tics

Hilly

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Sadly i have a cow with tic born fever , i have never had trouble with tics on cattle or sheep , but now i think is the time to start preventative treatments whats best for sheep ? Crovect ? Anything for cows ? Or use sheep as mops ?? Any advice welcome . Thanks .
 

Highland Mule

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Livestock Farmer
Sadly i have a cow with tic born fever , i have never had trouble with tics on cattle or sheep , but now i think is the time to start preventative treatments whats best for sheep ? Crovect ? Anything for cows ? Or use sheep as mops ?? Any advice welcome . Thanks .
We had a storm with it in lambs a few years ago, so now do them all with Spotonor as soon as we can (1-2 days), alongside tails/ rings/ tags etc. Crovect isn’t allowed until they are a bit older and the tick doesn’t wait for them. Crovect the ewes at the same time, and then give the lambs a follow up crovect at first vaccine. No more issues since, thank goodness as it was rough to have so many losses in the 5-6 week old range.

This year, I’ve done the calves (outdoor) with Spotonor at the same age, again alongside tagging and ringing and cows just this week - mostly for flies but should also help to keep the ticks down.

They’re becoming a growing problem due to milder winters and too many trees around me, so I think it’s worth the cost.
 

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
Dysect for lambs. End of discussion.

12 week guaranteed cover (7 week withdrawal). The bottle doesn't give guidelines for spraying young lambs for ticks but I phoned them and their own vet said it is fine to use on lambs over 10kgs with 25ml.

I wait until youngest lambs are a week old, then do the whole lot with 20ml - 5litre bottle does 250 lambs and is about £65. Been doing it 10+ years and never had an issue - used to lose lambs to fever and the ewes on the hill were always covered in ticks at shearing... very rarely see a tick on them at shearing now (when the lambs get a repeat spray to do the rest of the summer).



Crovect is a faff as it wants 2 applications a few weeks apart and only lasts up to 8 weeks.





Haven't tried any other products. I rubber band all my lambs at birth. The singles get gathered into the mobile yard, I'm not doing any other jobs to them so it's a very quick spray in the pen then they're let onto the hill and left alone til shearing.
 
Dysect on lambs and ewes here, spot on, spotinor or other derivatives for cattle. We have a pretty bad tick problem so any time hill animals are in they get a treatment of some kind and it seems to keep on top of it. Louping ill vaccine used to be great but they stopped making it, although at over £5 a shot it was very expensive for hill sheep.
 

exmoor dave

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Location
exmoor, uk
Sadly i have a cow with tic born fever , i have never had trouble with tics on cattle or sheep , but now i think is the time to start preventative treatments whats best for sheep ? Crovect ? Anything for cows ? Or use sheep as mops ?? Any advice welcome . Thanks .


Tick borne fever or Redwater in the cow?


Spot on or similar for cattle

Dysect for sheep



Cattle will get immune to redwater if you are careful with managing them to be exposed when they are young
 

Sheepfog

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Location
Southern England
Ticks can be a real problem, even down here on permanent pasture and rough stewardship grazing on the Downs. Lambs get anaemic etc.

Ewes get Dysect pre lambing and lambs get Dysect at marking (4-6 weeks old). Ewes are done again in the autumn, as are any retained ewe/store lambs.

Seems to work and keeps the ewes thriving.
 

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