[Bionic]

Sheep have been scouring so washed all their bottoms this morning and put them on ground with not such lush grass.
Dog was just generally smelly so gave him a shower too.
Am currently eyeing up OH 

[sabrina]

I too decided to have a wash day ! Took all the perches out of the hens stable and gave them a good scrub, then the nest boxes. Took out all the straw  and brushed down the walls and cleaned the floor. Everything drying now so later on this afternoon will put down mite powder and put it all back together.

[RUSTYME]

Comfrey helps stop scours  , well it worked on calves that had them .
Some animals will only eat them once wllted , my horses eat as i cut .
Worth a try mate .

[Bionic]

Thanks Russ,. now to find out where to get some comfry from

[RUSTYME]

Mine has all been cut back , and fed to the horses , and is just starting to grow back , otherwise you could have had some of that to try .
It will be about 4 weeks till i can start cutting again .

[Wee Eck]

Eck had a shower this morning 

[mab]

That's good to know russ - just in case.


alas my sheep ate my comfrey patch last year before I realised what it was    It hasn't grown back.

[RUSTYME]

It should have grown back mab , i cut mine about 4 times a year and it always grows back ok . Maybe they just grazed it out ?
Have seen it used a few times on calves .
 First time  i was working on a farm in 78 , old style farm , grew all his own animal feed , kept sheep , dairy cattle , beef and a couple of pigs each year.
Well anyway , the calves were kept in small outbuildings , 6 or so to a shed ,  6 sheds . One lot got the squits and within 24 hours they all had them . The farmer just told me to cut a barrowload of comfrey , lay it on a clean bit of yard and walk on it for 10 minutes , then put some in  all the hay racks . This i did and they all went for it instantly . That evening none had the squits , less than 4 hours after eating the comfrey .
Did similar on other farms i worked on , all had big patches of comfrey near the sheds .
From memory it worked everytime .