Worming ewes

[JohnAC]

Havnt wormed our ewes for a few years and was taking a dung sample from lambs the other day and took a sample from ewes as well to check for fluke and the vet has came back to say the ewes are high for worms as well(didn’t say how much) ewes are all easycares are clean and in good order and will be weaning them in a couple of weeks what would your advice be?

 

[Still Farming]

Combinex dose all possibly?

 

[neilo]

Havnt wormed our ewes for a few years and was taking a dung sample from lambs the other day and took a sample from ewes as well to check for fluke and the vet has came back to say the ewes are high for worms as well(didn’t say how much) ewes are all easycares are clean and in good order and will be weaning them in a couple of weeks what would your advice be?

Keep an eye on them and retest in a week or two?

Have you any history of heamonchus? That can give you high FEC's as ewes don't readily develop immunity to it, and they don't tend to scour. If it is heamonchus, they can multiply rapidly, then condition will fall off them quickly.
A retest will tell you if they are multiplying rapidly, or whether it is normal strongyles and they've tackled them?

 

[JohnAC]

Keep an eye on them and retest in a week or two?

Have you any history of heamonchus? That can give you high FEC's as ewes don't readily develop immunity to it, and they don't tend to scour. If it is heamonchus, they can multiply rapidly, then condition will fall off them quickly.
A retest will tell you if they are multiplying rapidly, or whether it is normal strongyles and they've tackled them?

No idea about Haemonchus! if it’s strongyles will it do them any harm if high counts and they can deal with them?

 

[JohnAC]

Combinex dose all possibly?

Combinex dose all possibly?

Sorry meant to say clear for fluke

 

[neilo]

No idea about Haemonchus! if it’s strongyles will it do them any harm if high counts and they can deal with them?

I’d be surprised if mature ewes had a high burden of normal strongyles, as they should be fairly resistant to them.
If it is heamonchus, which is certainly appearing recently in areas where it’s never been seen before, then it will knock the sh*t out of them, and they will take a long time to mend.

Closantel will kill heamonchus, while not increasing resistance to normal worms. But it won’t help if strongyles are the issue.

 

[JohnAC]

I’d be surprised if mature ewes had a high burden of normal strongyles, as they should be fairly resistant to them.
If it is heamonchus, which is certainly appearing recently in areas where it’s never been seen before, then it will knock the sh*t out of them, and they will take a long time to mend.

Closantel will kill heamonchus, while not increasing resistance to normal worms. But it won’t help if strongyles are the issue.

Would I be as well goin in with supaverm now then?

 

[neilo]

Would I be as well goin in with supaverm now then?

Having experienced the effects of heamonchus in a naive flock, I would. Not sure whether that’s best practice though, or just bitter experience (& resultant lost income) speaking.

 

[Man_in_black]

Having experienced the effects of heamonchus in a naive flock, I would. Not sure whether that’s best practice though, or just bitter experience (& resultant lost income) speaking.

Is any particular narrow spectrum better than an other Neil?

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Having experienced the effects of heamonchus in a naive flock, I would. Not sure whether that’s best practice though, or just bitter experience (& resultant lost income) speaking.

I would completely agree with @neilo as it has been a difficult time with Haemonchus. Flukiver seems to work well on ewes.

 

[ISCO]

We had 2 batches of ewes decimated by Haemonchus late July early August last year. Lost flesh at an alarming rate and lost a few poorer sorts. Did one batch with clear wormer as that was what i had and other with Supaverm. Both cleared it up.

The transformation in ewes was dramatic, they stopped dying immediately. They were so poor we put them on a good fog to improve them and they did scan well.

Vet said double dose of white wormer will be effective but not tried it.

 

[Man_in_black]

We had 2 batches of ewes decimated by Haemonchus late July early August last year. Lost flesh at an alarming rate and lost a few poorer sorts. Did one batch with clear wormer as that was what i had and other with Supaverm. Both cleared it up.

The transformation in ewes was dramatic, they stopped dying immediately. They were so poor we put them on a good fog to improve them and they did scan well.

Vet said double dose of white wormer will be effective but not tried it.

We're experiencing exactly same this year. Just Giving flukiver now.

 

[ISCO]

We're experiencing exactly same this year. Just Giving flukiver now.

Keeping close eye on ours for now.

 

[Man_in_black]

Handling them now, ashamed at how fast condition has dropped off them