[gingercloverbramble]

We only have 2 pet lambs and a pygmy goat.
Have been using Verm-x for worming but they are on land which has had pigs on it and I am keen to give them a 'proper' worming!!
Any advice as to what to use?  Also, the fact that we only have 3 animals needing wormed, I obviously don't want to have to buy a big tub of something!
All advice much appreciated!

[OhLaLa]

I went to to vets, the vet came to the counter and I told him how many sheep I had etc and they gave me a bottle of wormer and advised re dosage. Maybe try that?

 

[gingercloverbramble]

Thank you OhLaLa.  Will pop into the vets tomorrow and ask their advice.

[shetlandpaul]

make sure you get the dose right maybe even go over a bit. learnt the hard way its nasty to lose them to something so simple.

[Rosemary]

Worms are usually species specific so I don't think there would be any cross contamination between pigs and sheep.

Why not do a faecal worm egg count (Westgate Laboratories) and see if you need to worm? It's £10 but if you put in a mixed sample of poo from the three animals, it will only be one test.

[Anke]

T Tyne's sheep book mentions, that you shouldn't have sheep/goats on pasture that had has pigs on it recently/been treated with pig manure, high Co content of pigmuck, possibly poisonous to sheep? Just read that you had pigs on your sheep pasture?

Also Panacur is not expensive and usually has quite a long shelf life.