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The Chicken Lady

  • Joined Mar 2008
  • Cheshire
Open wounds
« on: July 05, 2009, 06:34:53 pm »
I had my sheep sheared this weekend and they have got a few nicks on them. The shearer put some blue spray on some of them. So far they are OK but I can see flies landing on these wounds. What would be the best thing to put on them?
Karen

danndans

  • Joined Jan 2008
  • aberystwyth
Re: Open wounds
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2009, 06:50:19 pm »
you can buy yello fly cream  :).............its  thick and bright bright yellow but it does the job ;)
Make your words soft and sweet, as one day you may have to eat them.

shrekfeet

  • Joined Sep 2008
Re: Open wounds
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2009, 01:06:31 pm »
Or you can buy a spray that will kill any flystrike and acts as a deterant too

woollyval

  • Joined Feb 2008
  • Near Bodmin, Cornwall
    • Val Grainger
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Re: Open wounds
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2009, 10:43:52 pm »
They should be ok, its like a shaving cut and blue spray is an anti biotic one. The likelihood of flystrike is very low but as Dans says a pot of yellow fly cream is a good thing to have handy!
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