We dagged all of our sheep 3 weeks ago, properly, using clippers. They are all clean, with no diarrhoea, but today I noticed one of the shearlings stamping her hind legs & appearing very agitated! On closer inspection we found she had a small area of fly strike in the clipped, clean area. We treated the area with Crovect to kill the maggots & put fly strike cream on the area is she is fine now.
I wasn't intending to treat them all with Clikzin for a few weeks - but going to do them all tomorrow now this has happened. We are trying Clikzin this year pre shearing as we had a few with fly strike last year despite using Crovect, although after using Clik after shearing we had no problems all summer, despite the hot summer!
I though I should post to suggest everyone is mindful of possible early fly strike & be on the lookout & use anti fly strike treatment ASAP.