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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Shhh2000 on September 23, 2019, 08:22:24 am

Title: How to treat flystrike when due to slaughter in a few days
Post by: Shhh2000 on September 23, 2019, 08:22:24 am

Hi. We are due to slaughter our lambs in a few days and one is showing signs of flystrike. How do we treat/what to use without a withdrawal period and will it still be ok to slaughter?

Title: Re: How to treat flystrike when due to slaughter in a few days
Post by: twizzel on September 23, 2019, 04:27:25 pm

You’ll need to clip away all the fleece until you hit clean fleece. We normally put crovect on then to kill any maggots. Meat withdrawal is 8 days so not long at all.


If the skin is broken you ought to wait until it’s healed really.

Title: Re: How to treat flystrike when due to slaughter in a few days
Post by: bj_cardiff on September 24, 2019, 06:40:26 am

I use maggot oil to kill the maggots, I always do as twizzel suggests and trim back the fleece in the struck area and surrounding so it can dry out.

I wouldn't send for slaughter until the skin has totally healed and fleece has returned, probably another 4 weeks or so.