The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Garmoran on July 18, 2015, 02:04:56 pm
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It's been 5 years since we last had a farm inspection, so I've been looking over things and reviewing the medicine record book, in anticipation of a visit from Inverness. Last time they didn't examine the spreadsheet I was using, just asked me to confirm that I was keeping a record. I would appreciate your experience on a couple of points:
1. How precise do you need to be in the column which identifies the animals treated with a medicine? It's easy enough to list tag numbers for small batches, like drenching the tups but that seems impracticable for large numbers of ewes. Is it enough just to put eg "40 ewes"? It's very rare that you can write "all ewes" as there is usually 1 or 2 errant beasts who have managed not to be present.
2. What is the acceptable method of disposing of unused vaccine and antibiotic?
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I just put in total no's treated eg 100xlambs 50 x ewes and for question 2 I would talk to your vet since I never have unused product .
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Your vet should be able to dispose of unused meds and sharps for you, whether or not there is a charge for this is your vets prerogative.
Eblex do a good medicine book for farmers, has everything you need in it, we get ours from our farm assurance chap that comes annually.
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If you treated all ewes in a batch (kept in one field) then 'All ewes Xty Field' is enough. If you haven't treated all the ewes in a batch then you should mark the ones that are treated, and then put 'Orange back of neck' (or whatever) to identify the ones treated.
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If you haven't treated all the ewes in a batch then you should mark the ones that are treated, and then put 'Orange back of neck' (or whatever) to identify the ones treated.
Thanks Sally, very helpful as usual. They usual get marked this way anyway - saves me getting confused. In fact, usually I do take a note of the tags, but I didn't fancy the idea of copying 40 or 50 numbers into the book each time.