Definitely can get longer after clipping, but after 2/3 weeks click works fine, I’ve seen enough sheep die with maggots to know never take a chance, so when the wool is long enough they get clicked, elanco make a click for the Australian market that can be applied straight after clipping and lasts for 12 months.
Scurried with them this year so il have to attack them earlier this year
I’m probably farming sheep over 30 years maggots would be the biggest killer of sheep and lambs, it’s so easy to prevent fly strikes if you can get click on in time, I would say it’s bad farming practice not to use it.
Yeah see what you mean.
Would you go with the extra or normal clik?
Normal/original clik think that extra is just over priced and unnecessary, never use clikzin either, half dose of clik is fine for lambs. (all clik is overpriced it’s made for cents per litre I think less than 10 cents)
This was a particularly bad year for it. The weather was very humid so the flies were out for a long time.
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You worried about fluke?
We put ewes on beet tops every year,we were growing turnips but have changed to a soft fodder beet now. We feed a little bit of a barley beans mix with minerals to balance the beet. We changed because the beet field was a bit small one year to grow enough turnips and beet for cattle feed, so we sowed the fodder beet. An acre of turnips used to graze 160 ewes for a week. An acre of fodder beet will graze the same number for a month. As regards their mouth, my culling rate hasn't increased and I am very conscious of making sure they have teeth for grazing the fodder beet. On turnips sheep were fit ,not fat. On the beet they will fatten and get very fat if on it for long enough
I dosed with Tribex 5% (Triclabendazole) after most of the stock were losing weight and I was advised liver fluke could be the issue. I'm aware there is resistance to Triclabendazole so don't intend on routine dosing with it but it seems to be the only product to target immature fluke. They all put weight back on in a short time. Seemingly a FEC isn't good at showing liver fluke, most of the damage is done as immature fluke. It seems that taking blood tests in this years lambs is a good indicator as it can show antibodies to fluke. If no antibodies, they haven't come across fluke. I'll be trying that out next time I think.
it's been a crap back end for sheep with the grass being so wet and f/a feeding value and parasite/slug hatch , was hoping to leave out until middle of dec but now looks like housing in a week to 10 days , shouldn't have fluke issues at home but we'll need a hovercraft to collect the ones on the out block
It has. Ground hasn't really dried on top. I was doing a bit of fencing and ground is dryish underneath but the top is greasy. It looks like we might get a few dry days in a row this week which should be a big help.
they'd be better off in anyways and save the bit of grass for when they lamb, if its as wet then as now we can throw the hat at it.any rumen fluke with them
The 20 a head payment must not apply until next year? Just the increase to 12 from ten a head?
Correct..
No there was no reading for rumen fluke wen they were sampled
Few pound less in the the back pocket so. It's showing up on agfood anyways, first but of money here this year as no biss or anc paid out. Its welcome.
