Been rounding up all the separate paddocks of sheep today to move them to Autumn grazing... one of my first ever ewes is the one I always rely on to get the others into the pen/trailer etc with minimal fuss (she is so flippin' greedy and friendly she will do ANYTHING for a few sugar beet pellets.) However, today, she was a right pain in the butt.... dancing in and out of the trailer causing mayhem...wouldn't be walked in... and enough to make me swear. When there were only her and her 2 sisters left, she happily came up to me and nuzzled her face into my hands...and then i felt it... rough, scabby lips! On closer inspection, my fears were supported....orf scabs. Quite a few but tiny and dry!
I popped 2 Ovaloids into her mouth. Strangely enough I had only found this full, unused pot yesterday buried under the straw in the currently disused pig ark so they were in the front of my car. Its almost all like fate. if she hadn't have mucked me about earlier I wouldn't have seen/felt the orf and when she was up in the large Autumn grazing field I defo would not have noticed for a while... and if I hadn't have been given a few spare flaps of straw from someone who no longer has chickens, i wouldn't have re-strawed the old ark and found the Ovaloids! Strange huh?
Anyway, I take it there is nothing much more I can do but keep her separate from the main flock for the next week or so, keep an eye on them, antiseptic spray and poss Antiobiotic jab if necessary and make sure I wear gloves when I retreat with Ovaloids in 6 days! is that right?
Cripes.... the amount of times I kiss her on the face...I better watch my own lips! LOL!
That'll teach her for trampling down my fence to scoff all the blackthorn!