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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: gadge on September 23, 2013, 11:27:20 am

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Post by: gadge on September 23, 2013, 11:27:20 am: Just started a new flock and was wondering where people buy there medicinal (heptavac, foot sprays etc) from?
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Post by: zarzar on September 23, 2013, 11:30:26 am: We get all ours from mole avon or vet.
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Post by: Bionic on September 23, 2013, 12:04:10 pm: Vets or local agri merchants
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Post by: SteveHants on September 23, 2013, 12:08:42 pm: Hyperdrug or Wessex Animal Health are very competetive - Wessex can usually have them there next day.
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Post by: ZaktheLad on September 23, 2013, 12:22:58 pm: BestPet Pharmacy (online) or Countrywide store.
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Post by: SteveHants on September 23, 2013, 03:54:35 pm: Quote from: gadge on September 23, 2013, 11:27:20 am
Just started a new flock and was wondering where people buy there medicinal (heptavac, foot sprays etc) from?

Did you buy some of those daft, wooly Kentish sheep in the end or did you buy something more sensible? :innocent:
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Post by: MarvinH on September 23, 2013, 09:34:51 pm: Vet
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Post by: Pedwardine on September 24, 2013, 09:24:25 pm: Mole Valley Farmers are pretty good.
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Post by: Foobar on September 25, 2013, 09:39:04 am: Fane Valley Stores also very good (based in Ireland but that doesn't hinder deliveries, and they are very friendly).
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Post by: devonlad on September 25, 2013, 10:21:55 am: like most we use local agri merchants- for us its Mole Avon, though I do actually work for mole valley farmers (ssshhhh !). depending on flock size it can be difficult/impossible to get small packs of certain essentials. Our vet will provide us with more reasonable amount of wormer/flukicide but with things like fly strike and heptavac we spent a couple of years having to buy ridiculously large amounts. Two things have happened to reduce the cost and waste- 1) we've got more sheep now and 2) we teamed up with a local chap in a similar situation and we now heptavac together and share bottles of click - as well as jointly booking a shearer. works much better although we've recently had a difference of opinion re heptavac regime and we are probably going to have to do it our way now- as a result quick piggy back if that's ok- is there ANY way of keeping heptavac once opened. this year we need to give 6 lambs there starter doses 4 weeks apart. however we do it, currently we will have to throw 19 doses away as 25 doses seems to be the smallest ??
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Post by: ZaktheLad on September 25, 2013, 11:27:10 am: I keep my unused Heptavac in the fridge and cover the hole made by the needle with hot wax to seal it up. This was on the advice of a friend who is a vet...