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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: gingercloverbramble on January 19, 2011, 12:49:09 pm

Title: Worming
Post by: gingercloverbramble on January 19, 2011, 12:49:09 pm

We only have 2 pet lambs and a pygmy goat.
Have been using Verm-x for worming but they are on land which has had pigs on it and I am keen to give them a 'proper' worming!!
Any advice as to what to use?  Also, the fact that we only have 3 animals needing wormed, I obviously don't want to have to buy a big tub of something!
All advice much appreciated!

Title: Re: Worming
Post by: OhLaLa on January 19, 2011, 03:19:38 pm

I went to to vets, the vet came to the counter and I told him how many sheep I had etc and they gave me a bottle of wormer and advised re dosage. Maybe try that?

 :sheep:

Title: Re: Worming
Post by: gingercloverbramble on January 19, 2011, 10:14:34 pm

Thank you OhLaLa.  Will pop into the vets tomorrow and ask their advice.

Title: Re: Worming
Post by: shetlandpaul on January 19, 2011, 11:00:35 pm

make sure you get the dose right maybe even go over a bit. learnt the hard way its nasty to lose them to something so simple.

Title: Re: Worming
Post by: Rosemary on January 20, 2011, 10:17:21 am

Worms are usually species specific so I don't think there would be any cross contamination between pigs and sheep.

Why not do a faecal worm egg count (Westgate Laboratories) and see if you need to worm? It's £10 but if you put in a mixed sample of poo from the three animals, it will only be one test.

Title: Re: Worming
Post by: Anke on January 20, 2011, 08:52:47 pm

T Tyne's sheep book mentions, that you shouldn't have sheep/goats on pasture that had has pigs on it recently/been treated with pig manure, high Co content of pigmuck, possibly poisonous to sheep? Just read that you had pigs on your sheep pasture?

Also Panacur is not expensive and usually has quite a long shelf life.