What do you feed your Collie sheep dogs?

[neilo]

Neospora...I wouldn’t be feeding dogs raw meat

Yes, that’s another one to consider if you have breeding cattle about. Sheep one is a different parasite though.

Cysticercus ovis is the one I was thinking of.

Cysticercus ovis or sheep measles | Helping farmers in Scotland | Farm Advisory Service

C.Ovis is the larval stage of a tapeworm that affects animals such as dogs, foxes, etc. This does not transfer to humans. The adult tapeworm called Taenia ovis lives in the intestine of the dog/fox and eggs are shed in the faeces.

www.fas.scot

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

Those of you feeding raw flesh, how do you manage the ‘dog worm’ thing (I forget the name just now)? I don’t feed mine raw flesh, but have loads of footpaths and lots of dog walkers that don’t/won’t pick up.? I always have quite a few with condemned livers through the ‘dog worm’, which seems to build up as the lambs get older. My hoggets for the last couple of years have come back with over 50%, despite being away from those footpaths and fenced on roots crops for 4-5 months by then! Thankfully no financial deductions as yet, but unsure how to stop it without a machine gun.

Surely if your letting yours eat after birth, your feeding raw flesh ?

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Those of you feeding raw flesh, how do you manage the ‘dog worm’ thing (I forget the name just now)? I don’t feed mine raw flesh, but have loads of footpaths and lots of dog walkers that don’t/won’t pick up.? I always have quite a few with condemned livers through the ‘dog worm’, which seems to build up as the lambs get older. My hoggets for the last couple of years have come back with over 50%, despite being away from those footpaths and fenced on roots crops for 4-5 months by then! Thankfully no financial deductions as yet, but unsure how to stop it without a machine gun.

All dogs on the farm get wormed regularly.
If you are Red Tractor you have to put it in the medicine book as I am sure you all do!!

 

[yellowbelly]

Surely if your letting yours eat after birth, your feeding raw flesh ?

I'm sure I was told (years ago) that dogs shouldn't eat cleansings???

Something about toxo and sending them blind???

Maybe an old wives' tale???

 

[Woolless]

Beta working dog dry food here plus a few scraps. They love marrow bone roll biscuits from Aldi as well.

 

[Gulli]

I think I must be neglecting my girls. They just have between one & one and a half (depending on weight) mugs full of Chudleys Working Crunch, every night when I put them to bed. I used to split a tin between the three when one used to be a bit fussy, but most tin food is little more than water on a lower spec feed than dry.

Obviously they get to pinch plenty of afterbirth when we’re lambing, and hoover up any green, sloppy muck whenever the sheep are in the yard too.

Been on that for 7 or 8 years now, and seem to do very well on it.

Same here. Sid gets water with his because of I put it in a separate bowl he ignore it and drinks out of whatever shitty puddle/tyre/bucket he can find

 

[neilo]

Surely if your letting yours eat after birth, your feeding raw flesh ?

I'm not fast enough to stop them.

 

[Gulli]

I'm not fast enough to stop them.

Just grab the other end and fight them for it ?

 

[neilo]

All dogs on the farm get wormed regularly.
If you are Red Tractor you have to put it in the medicine book as I am sure you all do!!

Mine are wormed regularly, but with hundreds of dog walkers through the place daily, very few of which will pick anything up, I'm p*ssing in the wind worming mine.

 

[Celt83]

Just grab the other end and fight them for it ?

neilo probably values his fingers more!

 

[Av Gorritt]

Been watching a few episodes of "Alaska . The last frontier " And a similar one of "The Yukon" o n "D Max" The diet of their sled dogs seems to consist of old fish offal - heads etc , mashed up in a slop , and boiled in an old 5 gallon bucket . They wolf it down , and I'm sure nobody would ever claim that those dogs aren't fit , certainly not fat though . Mind you i'm glad that I don't have to clear up their muck every day !

 

[Celt83]

Been watching a few episodes of "Alaska . The last frontier " And a similar one of "The Yukon" o n "D Max" The diet of their sled dogs seems to consist of old fish offal - heads etc , mashed up in a slop , and boiled in an old 5 gallon bucket . They wolf it down , and I'm sure nobody would ever claim that those dogs aren't fit , certainly not fat though . Mind you i'm glad that I don't have to clear up their muck every day !

I bet their kennels smell like a trawlermans vest!

 

[Av Gorritt]

I bet their kennels smell like a trawlermans vest!

or even worse than that .

 

[unlacedgecko]

Been watching a few episodes of "Alaska . The last frontier " And a similar one of "The Yukon" o n "D Max" The diet of their sled dogs seems to consist of old fish offal - heads etc , mashed up in a slop , and boiled in an old 5 gallon bucket . They wolf it down , and I'm sure nobody would ever claim that those dogs aren't fit , certainly not fat though . Mind you i'm glad that I don't have to clear up their muck every day !

Flesh fed dogs sh!t less.

 

[Spartacus]

I'm on CSJ, they do a range of food, mine are on that'll do and champ.

 

[Bury the Trash]

too much meat and hyper dogs is what we find.
...they just get ott about things and lose some discipline and sense especially bitches at certain times is what we find.

 

[Nithsdale]

Skinners Ruff and Ready (describes me perfectly ) for my dogs.

Get fed at the end of the working day - feeding them is the last job before I head back to my house.

They get their portion wet, every day until there's sign they've left some - then they get a hunger day.

 

[Skintagain]

Marsdens working dog and sachets of Winalot mixer meat in jelly mixed in at each end of the day. My bitch has a bad stomach but this seems to suit her. She looks a picture, always lacked shine without the meat.

 

[Purli R]

Feed reps.!
And Postman for pudding.

 

[clod hopper]

Skinners Ruff and Ready (describes me perfectly ) for my dogs.

Get fed at the end of the working day - feeding them is the last job before I head back to my house.

They get their portion wet, every day until there's sign they've left some - then they get a hunger day.

This is not a dating site mate! Careful how you go!!¡!!?