[Shhh2000]

Hi. We are due to slaughter our lambs in a few days and one is showing signs of flystrike. How do we treat/what to use without a withdrawal period and will it still be ok to slaughter?

[twizzel]

You’ll need to clip away all the fleece until you hit clean fleece. We normally put crovect on then to kill any maggots. Meat withdrawal is 8 days so not long at all.


If the skin is broken you ought to wait until it’s healed really.

[bj_cardiff]

I use maggot oil to kill the maggots, I always do as twizzel suggests and trim back the fleece in the struck area and surrounding so it can dry out.

I wouldn't send for slaughter until the skin has totally healed and fleece has returned, probably another 4 weeks or so.