[Melias farm]

I’ve kept sheep for years and never bred. I have 4 in lamb Frisian ewes. They are stabled most of the time now as they are bagging up. They are very very happy about this.

Issue I have is they clearly have lic or something like it. I’ve used d e powder and it’s helped. I want to stick with as natural as we can so trying to steer clear of spot on type treatments if I can.
What else can I try?
They seem happy and healthy. Eating and drinking well

[shep53]

You need your vet to take skin scrapings /wool samples ,so that you know what the problem is , only then can you treat ( lice -keds -scab-lumpy wool )

[Penninehillbilly]

While I agree with shep53 about identifying problem, I had 2 youngsters inside last year, rubbing wool off, I was confident it wasn't scab, so popped some spotinor on, it cleared things up quickly.
But if you are wanting something natural and don't know what you are dealing with, that's not much help I'm afraid.

[landroverroy]

To me the important thing is to stop the itching. Each winter my housed cattle start to itch and rub from mites in the straw and hay. I treat them with Ivomec (or similar) pour on which is very effective. I have used it on sheep as well but it needs to be diluted about 4 times (I used rubbing alcohol - which is the carrier in Ivomec). You use the same dose rate/kg but obviously 4 x the volume because of the dilution. This is necessary because of the lanolin on sheeps' fleece and skin which means it takes longer for the liquid to be absorbed.


However - if you absolutely must use a natural product - try homeopathy. I use Crossgates Homeopathy at Skipton. (Google it)
It has been found that using homeopathy to treat wild foxes with mange was more than 90% effective. The remedy was just put on the food and left out for the foxes to help themselves and was amazingly effective.