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coastal

  • Joined Jun 2009
Lamb worming
« on: June 29, 2009, 06:38:57 pm »
I have been given two heb lambs. I have bottle fed from 4 days old and they are now 5 weeks. They are on 300ml milk twice a day with add lib pellets and on grass.
When should i worm and what with, as you will gather not done this before.

Crofter

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Isle of Lewis
  • We'll get there!
    • Ravenstar
Re: Lamb worming
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2009, 09:56:25 pm »
Has the grass they are on had sheep on it in the last year, or does it border land with sheep on?  If not they should not have much of a worm burden.  We usually worm at 6 months in lambs raised on their mothers but as we have a croft, there are other sheep on every boundary!

Dave
Comfortable B&B on a working Croft on the Isle of Lewis. www.Ravenstar.co.uk

kaz

  • Joined Jul 2008
  • Ceredigion
  • Dust yourself off when life throws you down.
Re: Lamb worming
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2009, 10:31:47 pm »
 My advise  would be to ask your vet. He can advise you when and if to worm depending on whether sheep have grazed the land previously. Advice is free, vets visits are not.
Penybont Ryelands. Ystwyth Coloured Ryelands.  2 alpacas, 2 angora goats, 2 anglo nubian kids, 3golden retrievers a collie and a red fox labrador retriever, geese, ducks & chickens.

 

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