Parasitic PROBLEMS on the Farm: My SHEEP Health CRISIS
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- Welcome to Sheep School! 🐑 In this episode, we're diving into the nitty-gritty of farm life, as everyday with sheep truly is a school day. Join me as we tackle one of the most challenging aspects of sheep farming - dealing with parasites, and making some tough decisions about our beloved ewes.
🪱 Parasite Control: First, we'll take a deep dive into the world of sheep parasites. I'll walk you through the signs and symptoms of an infestation, and show you the essential steps we take to keep our flock healthy. Learn about the medications and strategies we use to protect our sheep from these pesky critters.
🐑 Ewe Selection: It's not always easy, but it's a necessary part of farming. Join us as we carefully evaluate our ewes, making the tough but important decision to retire some of our oldest members. We'll discuss the criteria we use to select which ewes will continue to contribute to our flock and we bid farewell to an incredibly productive and cherished ewe.
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Thanks for watching,
David.
new viewer, Sandy sent me :-) im orginally from Maghera, Co Derry, living now in Brisbane Australia. lovin yer accent:-)
Welcome to the channel 😊
Big ❤️ to Sandi, she is the best..
your a great sheep farmer. Im a big sheep fan. my ancestors were all farmers, My two granmothers were famers also. and my great grand father was a farmer also too. from patrick higgins mitchelstown, ps I have no farm but still love sheep and cows.
When you are keeping your own replacements a ewe which has lasted to six years old could breed you a better gimmer lamb than a one which lost teeth at four. If the teeth are tight and on the pad she’s definitely worth another year.
The lump on the ewes jaw would be a tooth abscess i would think.
You are dead right.. I try to keep my replacements from older sheep. If they've made it to culling age they haven't fallen apart with mastitis, mouth or prolapse...
Love all the information you give. Keep it up. ❤
Thank you 🤗
I’d keep them all… so sentimental. They’d all have names too. I’d be a hopeless sheep farmer. 😂 her name is Myrtle. ❤
Really enjoying your lessons on ewe health.
Thank you😊
Hi ))) I always enjoy your videos. Happy that you kept that 6 year old lady. Thanks for sharing )))
Good to know, thank you 👍
Great video David very interesting one 👌
Thanks Gary 👌
Great video David very interesting as always everyday video get some good info👍👍👍
Thank you 👌
Great video as always. Robbie is mad for work after his holiday 😂
Hard to keep a good man down 😀
Love your channel, very fascinating and full of so much information, even though I’m not a farmer your an awesome farmer - thank you for sharing your life with us. Hello 👋 from Western Australia 😊
Thanks for watching! Good to know you enjoy them 😊
Hello orlaith good advice thanks
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Keep video coming ,great video.good to see Orlaith the cajun queen making an appearance. Very easy on the eye even without make up😅
She is a great one!❤️
Nice
Excellent channel, hello orlaith 👍
This one is from Kenya Africa, good job man!
Thank you, welcome to the channel!
Very interesting video great work
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Thanks for sharing your cull decision making with such specific examples.You're far more experienced than I am, but that rake-toothed ewe looked fat and happy enough for another year to me. I'd say keep after treating feet going into winter, too. You can see a couple who need attention at the back of the flock in your footage of changing fields. Wishing you lots of luck going into the breeding season.
I hope those ewes have a red mark on them now...👌
In my opinion when it comes to ewes of more than five years always judge with Feburary eyes that is to move your thoughts on how will the ewe appear in feburary with maybe two lambs on board and a month before lambing This usually ends up with a thin ewe lacking in energy and getting pushed out at Hay / Silage feeders and meal troughs The rest you know you spend the rest of the season trying to get her to catch up I enjoy your videos we have a small flock in Mid Roscommon and you are right every day you work with sheep you learn something new Good luck !
Very Interesting thanks
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Hi was wondering wher u get the cull tags . Great video love watching u
Thank you. Get them from Cormac tagging along with my lamb tags
Looking forward to seeing the raddle powder . We never put a harness on in case it affected ram performance
I had a few got blisters on they're briskets with the harness but they were very busy running with around 100 ewes...
I have had the same symptoms on cattle as on your ewe with the skin condition (Not sure if sheep can get it aswell).
If the same it is called Photosensitisation.
Affects the white parts of the body. Can be grousesome to look at!
Primarily caused by eating St. John's Wort, buckweed, spring parsley, bishops weed or dutchmans breeches. The list goes on.
Clinical signs appear within 21days from ingesting plants/ weeds.
My vet said that there may be other plants / reasons why some animals are infected but not others. His thought was that maybe those animals immune levels were low.
Basically tough luck.
Animals will live, but on a bad dose will never be just right.
My experience with photosensitization (re: horses eating clover), was the redness and crusty skin where the hair was white (blazes and pasterns), but never swollen up like the heads on David's ewes.
Thanks for that. It looks like all the symptoms of photosensitisation...👌
Love your videos, LOVE this channel, really look forward to each one, become a highlight of my week. Please keep posting. You may have already shared this but couldn't find reference to it. What sheep drench backpack is that and would you recommend? Thanks so much and keep up the good work. :-) David, Western Isles, Scotland
Thanks David. It's an Eprinex one I got with a big order of doses. Very hard to find a good one. Will have some for sale in Sheep School Shop soon 👌
Brilliant, thanks for sharing David, really appreciate that. And very much looking forward to your shop opening, will most definitely be supporting it and will continue to support your channel in any way I can 👌
Hi from Northern Canada.
Welcome to the channel 😊
Good stuff
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Great video teeth very important half the breeding goes down the throat
Great video again David. Would you mind saying what that record software was that showed your oldest ewe history?
That's Sheep Ireland database showing ewes productivity. It's our national database of ebv's for all breeds of sheep in Ireland.
I also found that some older sheep develop problems with their molars causing them to cud spit, so if I noticed wads of cud on the field, I took a little time to see the culprit and make a note. I had a stunningly handsome Lleyn ram who began to spit so he went off for cull. I got a fantastic price, not what I wanted really as I wanted him to go for cull, not waste away on another farm. I think you could get rid of the St John’s Wort, I did,as my Poll Dorset x Lleyns were particularly susceptible. Their ears even dropped off in contravention of the tagging regime. Great fun arguing with the trading standards officer as I made the ewes pendants to hang their tags on.
I think the whiter sheep are much more prone to it. Strange that's the only field I sprayed for nettles this year but didn't wipe out the St John Wort.
@@sheepschool365 you have to dig them up.
Were the two sheep that reacted to the Saint John's Wort related? Just curous as sensitivities/allergies can be genetic, though might be they were the only 2 that ate the plant? I'd keep that older ewe on another year as she's in lovely condition. Another great school day, for sure!
I'm not sure. Will check tag numbers next day. Thank you 👌
Could that ewe have Caseous Lymphadenitis? ( a bacterial infection.)
Your videos are always educational and fun to watch too.👍👍😊
Feel better soon sweet Enya ❤️
Thanks Linda..😊
Keep , shes in great shape which shows thats shes grazing well plus feet and udder is good .be good to her put her in a batch of similar ewes which require a bit more attention , house them a bit earlier before lambing and the condition will stay with them in early lactation. Swelling on jaw more likely back teeth or perhaps the result of a jaw bone injury .good video .
Thank you.👍
Your right, it's the run up to lambing that really tests those older ladies...
Evening David
The older sheep on your 1st picture with the rough hair on its head
Looks similar to " RAIN SCALD" which is prevalent in Scotland
Don't like using ORANGE colour paint or raddle
Seems to blend into red or yellow especially with wet weather
All the best
B Dawson Edinburgh Scotland
I tried green raddle before and it was a terrible colour, barely could see it. Thank for that. Could be a secondary infection.
How does your raddle powder work and where you get it from 2 late for me this year but something I'd be interested in for next year
Hopefully the latest video explains the raddle 👌
I have had ewes lamb over 10 years old
Productive sheep 👏
You have a lot more experience than I do. I’d have been worried that the 6 year olds teeth wouldn’t last but you can’t beat running your thumb over them to check for firmness which I’m guessing they were hence why you kept her?
They felt quiet firm. I'll have to keep an eye on those older ladies and maybe house a little earlier if they're losing condition
Keep her, age make wise Sheep. Best regards from Sweden 😄
Great mothers...👌
Very informative this one
Glad you think so!
Just wondering where do you get that harness to hold the dosing stuff?
Got it as a present ages ago. Getting some made for my shop. Coming soon. 👌
How did the poisoned sheep recover, I have something similar in one of my ewes
They both are fine now. Will be interesting to see if they go in lamb. Rams going out this week...
Great video, which tag scanner do you use? I would probably have let that ewe go. Thanks
Scanner is an Agrident APR600. Might regret keeping her....
What percentage of your ewes last 8 years? Is there room for a person in the race for dagging and dosing sheep ?
Plenty of them last to 8 or 9 but don't suit my system of grass right up to point of lambing so 6/7 is my limit depending on body condition. No room to get into race for dagging but I never dag and prefer to dose outside..👌
Where do you buy the medicines online?
Buy from Midland Veterinary. Not online. It's a phone call..
I would chance her on for another year..looks in great order..out of curiosity what do you not like about the ram harness?
When I started out always tended to work my rams hard and run with 90-100 ewes. Found they got blisters and sores round legs and brisket.
Bigger problem was the odd broken crayon and sheep not getting marked. I'll maybe mention that in the next video 👌
st.johns worth causes brown snouth in cattle this is something the same David
Fairly similar I think it's photosensitisation after the poisoning..
photo sensitivity on that ewe that you think ate St Johns wart
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Where can we get those Boots please.
Got them in my local Agri store.👌
If your getting rid of Robbie I’ll take him 😂
Robbie is still very productive and will be kept!😄
I would definitely let the older ewes go especially ones in poorer conditions always end up with problem. They simply don’t have the power left to produce two lambs especially on a grass based system
Agree 100% Would take plenty of meal and a shed to carry them over..
Keep her, her body score looks good, some ewes just get fat on air
Hopefully I don't regret it 🤞
Off she goes i say
Hope I don't regret keeping her...
@@sheepschool365 any sign anything esp thin sheep anything over 5 years if has any sign of anything away they go another thing people do is all sheep sell over 5 sell for breeders in mart only have young ewes that way young ewes a bad spring easer keep up too not as much feeding wanted
Barber worms
I hope not. Becoming more common in Ireland.
keep the sheep David, she get a few lambs for yet.
If she rears good lambs every year it would be a would be a shame to let her go.
You're right. Gonna keep her!