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I don't understand why @bovine is so anti farmers for??!!
All he seems intrested in is introducing more red tape for farmers @ the licence to farm he proposed in another thread about farm assurance and then on this thread he is saying farmers shouldn't use something basic like Spectam but instead lose a dozen lambs and then call out the vet to run expensive tests/ consultancy fees up just to tell the farmer he will need to use something like spectam..
All very well him and consultants saying clean out each pen/ lime it between bedding it up/ new sheep which is fine on paper but when your one person lambing several hundred sheep on your own ( due to the economics of the job ) and the weather is crap like now and your tired/ there aren't enough hours in the day etc the reality is quite different!
To be fair, I don't think @bovine is 'anti-farmer' at all, or trying to 'introduce more red tape'. I suggest you re-read his posts above.
Routine, prophylactic ab use is under pressure from governments, and the EU, and the principle is probably right. This will be imposed from above, not by our vets. For instance, did you know that in Holland, even Heptevac P has moved from general use (like here), to POM, and now to vet administered. FFS, how many animals suffer from that restriction of use/cost? The same people are sitting on committees in Europe deciding what to restrict next.
For the record, I give every lamb born inside a squirt of Spectam too, like many others. Those born outside don't see it unless they come indoors for any reason.