Mark,
I'd keep him on antibiotics and put some sort of protection over the
eye while it heals. Your choices are to sew or superglue the eyelid
shut temporarily, or to use some sort of an eye patch. They make eye
patches for cattle that you can get at the feed store and might be
able to
The problem with these is you don't know which ones are eating it and which
aren't - some will not touch these blocks while others may eat it until they
pop, so some get some wormer and others get none - that's the same with the
safeguard pellets, some will eat them and some won't.
Onalee
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Just from my experience, I used Safeguard on my sheep at my Vet's suggestion
(changing from Ivomec which I had always used before with no problems),
shortly after that 3 died. After several trips of the vet to me and me to
the vet with other sick sheep, she realized that she failed to tell me that
OK... I have raised 1100+ sheep and my lambing starts in March where I
expect another 300 lambs to be born. I have doctored many many situations
but have never had to deal with a poked out eye!
I have a ram that has ruined his left eye (somehow). I have been treating
it with anti-biotics (LA-200
A little off the subject of poor Sally but has anyone tried the Safeguard
mineral block? ($40 here) Someone locally said they tried it on cattle and it
wasn't enough. I think I'll get one since it's so hard to segregate each animal
and the alfalfa pellets I put the liquid one into. I've tried
I purchased this last year and haven't had to use it yet, but it is
comforting to know it is there. I plan to use it to milk my goat this
year. The device has a solid reputation and has been featured in
Sheep! Magazine. (Anything endorsed by that magazine's editor is
usually good.) My only conc
If the Safeguard isn't effective then I agree why bother using it. But
Safeguard is still effective on many populations of parasites (those that
have not developed resistance). The nice thing about Safeguard is it is
much safer as the name implies on a weak animal. I know of no other wormer
safe
I hate to promote a certain brand but I use Kent milk replacer. My lambs do
great! I have 21 now! The only catch is that I mix it at about 20oz of water
instead of 16. This makes it not so rich and give scours or bloat if they
happen to over eat just a little and also pepto will take care of it
hello everyone!
reservations continue to stream in for the MAR/APR coast to coast
transport trip - early reservations indicate that a west coast loop
followed by an east coast loop is likely to occur - there are two large
loads on the west coast going eastbound so I am likely to be on the
west coa
Just my 2 cents on wormers . I have found safeguard to be as effective as
WATER in worming sheep (in other words NOT!). I would suggest, if that is
the problem with Sally, that you use Cydectin drench instead of safeguard. I
do agree that an injectable is in order and switching between 2 different
I agree with Cecil, delivery should have been faster. Most of my sheep
deliver their lambs without my presence. But if I am around and they go
into labor I assist (unless my help is very obviously not needed). They
usually do not like my being there but to bad! When I see hooves I move in
and p
If the lamb was struggling in the birth canal for an hour that is too
long. Assistance was required. My ewes will have triplets in less
than 30 minutes. I would think the lamb died from stress/exhaustion.
Sorry.
Cecil in OKla
blueberryfarm wrote:
I watched a young ewe give birth to her fir
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