[smee2012]

My (four) girls are hopefully all in lamb - waiting for the scanner to confirm this! - they are currently being fed between 1/4 and 1/3 bale of hay per day (as we have little to no grass in either field due to all the rain!), together with approx 1/2 kg of nuts between them and the occasional chopped carrot/swede/apple.
If they are all in lamb, they'll be due in 10-12 weeks and I'm now thinking about drenches to help them along. When is the best time to do this, would it also be beneficial to put a suitable lick into the field? What's the best drench to give in-lamb ewes? This is our first time lambing so want to give my girls the best start possible.

I'll be Heptavac P'ing in March, and the vet recommended treating with flukicide at the same time. I'll probably not worm them as we have no worm burden on our fields - although we did loan a tup so I'll do a FEC fairly soon to confirm this hasn't changed dramatically.

Also (sorry for all the questions), is it OK to use Crovect on lambs? I'm aware that my lambs are going to be born fairly late in the year for sheep (we haven't really got anywhere indoors for them to lamb so wanted the weather to be a little better for our first time!) and so I'm assuming that the lambs will be more at risk for fly-strike etc?

[shep53]

 Crovect is fine for lambs over 12.5kg in weight .  April/may is not late for lambing ,  may/june is late   . There are many min/vit drenches all claiming to be good , most are excreted pretty quickly  ,   when you buy hay normally from good land you bring all the mins from that farm onto yours plus the nuts will have some mins/vits added ,  a lick bucket will also have min/vits  .   Ask your vet and neighbours if the land has any deficiencies  and in the long term take blood samples