Our vet recommended using "Zolvix" which is a orange wormer, in terms of group, with monepantel as the active ingredient, for our recently purchsed tup. We kept him in isolation for three weeks (with our wether for company).
Good advice here too:
http://www.scops.org.uk/anthelmintics-quaratine-treaments.htmlAgree with previous posts re the Jakoti shears and the covered wheeled hay rack - just make sure you clean out the tray at the bottom daily, or it will make a huge mess that's a nightmare to clear up at teh end of winter (trust me, I speak from bitter experience). You'll need to allow about 50cm per sheep for access. Yes, buckets / water troughs and hurdles. Get a bag of sheep nuts - if they are anything like our Coloured Ryelands, rattling some in a bucket will get them in pdq.
I would NOT recommend buying in bottles of antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem and as a new sheepkeeper, you would be better advised to take vet advice if any of yoru sheep are unwell, rather than taking it upon yourself to administer ABs.
Ryelands have excellent feet and have a natural resistance to footrot anyway - we've kept them for 10 years and have rarely had any foot problems, and if we have it's been individual animals and, with the exception of one ewe, sorted by trimming and a spray of AB spray.
I've thrown many bottles of ABs in the bin, unused but past the use by date, so now I get them on an as needed basis from my vet. Now he knows us, he's happy to put up individual doses for us to collect.
We use Crovect. As a previous reply said it can be used as a preventative and a treatment - I *think* it's the only one that does both, so we just use that one product. It's hard enough to avoid wasting one product - having multiple products that do more or less the same thing just results in more wastage. Yes, it needs applied every six weeks, but if you only have a small flock of sheep, it's not that much of a hardship to spray them every six weeks. I worked it out last year that Crovect was the cheapest option, even taking into account the frequency of application - and we haven't had an incidence of fly strike for years (

). The frequency of application is a big deal if you have to gather hundreds of sheep but for a small flock? Not so sure.