The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Bionic on July 10, 2014, 10:09:05 am
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I write everything I do to my sheep in a book i.e. date they were sheared etc and put all medicines in the meds record book.
I have only just noticed that clik has a meat withdrawal period so should I be putting that in my meds record book also?
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Big fat Yes! :thumbsup:
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The medicines record form I was sent when I applied for a flock number includes boxes for:
- Name of Medicine
- Quantity bought, Where Purchased, Batch Number
- Tag numbers of animals (or groups of animals) administered to
- Total quantity used
- Date treatment started
- Date treatment ended
- Withdrawal period
- Earliest permissible date for sale
So as Hillview Farm says, that looks very much like a big fat yes! ;D
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Thanks both. I can't think why I haven't put in the meds book before. I will certainly do so now though.
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opps!
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Yes, we do.
We were sent a record book for medicines ..... for cattle really ..... they didn't do one for sheep apparently :-\ but said the same info. was needed for both.
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Probably *the* most important of all the records that you have to keep!! ;)
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We have books given to us by the farm assurance chap who comes every year to inspect the farm for Farm Assurance status- all of our cattle records are now kept on a computer programme that the farm bought earlier this year but the sheep records are still on paper- I think you can get similar from eblex but they are worth getting hold of a proper booklet rather than just using a notepad- have different sections for routine treatments like worming/flystrike, routine actions such as dehorning, docking, castrating, sheering, and then a section for medicines administered.
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I do have a proper medicines record booklet but had only thought of recording things that actually go into the animals I.e. Fluke treatments, worming, hep vac, pen & strep etc.
Those records are always up to date. Clik just passed me by somehow.
Anyway, it's been rectified now.
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Your local agri merchant probably has some, otherwise Google turns up a few, eg.,
Castlemaker (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Animal-Medicine-Record-Book-M002/dp/B003Y7LAR8)
Fearing (http://www.fearing.co.uk/farm-management/farm-office/record-books/animal-medicine-record-book)
Supplies for Smallholders (http://www.suppliesforsmallholders.co.uk/animal-medicine-record-register-p-214.html)
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We use Fearing ones. Just have a key at the front for where we got the medicine from (A = Vet, etc.) and put the batch number when I open a new bottle of, say, Ovivac, then just write "a/b" for "as before" until I finish the bottle. I do note withdrawal date every time.
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Probably *the* most important of all the records that you have to keep!! ;)
NO the movement book is the most important only the farm assurance man glances at the medicine book but Trading Standards / Farm Assurance / SERAD all study and ask questions over the movement book .