Vaccinating sheep
- Thread starter Jensen04
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chap said to me once yers ago, that "yes do all the vaccinations the treatments the min vits and feeds tht there are, 
............and they'll still go and die
............and they'll still go and die
- Location
- N.Lincs
If you don't vaccinate 'em, you'll lose about six.
If you do vaccinate 'em, you'll lose about half a dozen.
Sorry to seem flippant but that's about the long and the short of it with sheep
If you do vaccinate 'em, you'll lose about half a dozen.
Sorry to seem flippant but that's about the long and the short of it with sheep
yeh, they were cade lambs, an good point
- Location
- West Wales
Don’t breed off pet’s. They always make horrendous mothers with absolutely zero capabilities of rearing with no intervention…
Rod Dumbreck
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Some will keep a pet lamb if it was a triplet taken away from the dam, because it was 100% born naturally. Many other pet lambs were from dams that didn't do their job properly
CopperBeech
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- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
To be fair despite the replies, I would say that hep p / ovi vac p would be the greatest cost benefit ratio you will probably get with routine drugs for sheep.
CopperBeech
Member
- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
To be fair depending on what they are I’ve found they can go on to be fine. You takes your chances.
- Location
- N.Lincs
Well, they have been pets 'for a reason' - usually bad mother, or mother's bag gone wrong, mother died, etc. (not traits you want to carry on in a flock)
As @Rod Dumbreck says, above, they may just have been a triplet lifted off a ewe to leave her with twins. This would be the best scenario, although they could easily have been the smallest one.
If they all look like that one in your avatar, you look like you've done them well so you might get away with it.
@Mrs Y B occasionally keeps the odd one and they do OK but I wouldn't want a whole flock of 'em
Having said that, you've got to start somewhere. Good luck
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
My cades are all reared on a machine (so don’t become pillocks), before turning out with a creep, before joining the main mob at grass. I have always happily kept ewe lambs from the cades, where they’ve not been tagged as suitable genetics, and I can’t say that I’ve ever seen any problems with maternal abilities from doing so.
No lambs that are problems at birth, or from unsuitable genetics, get to have tags in here though, so never get considered for retention however they are reared.
I don’t consider just being reared on a machine as a reason for culling.
I`d do `em and then repeat after 4 wks. 2 small bottles cheaper than losing one of them - UNLESS they`re nearly fit to kill!