Just looking for help and advice regards flystrike and our lambs - I feel like I'm doing something wrong!
Our 8 lambs (first home bred lambs) were on poor grazing for a couple of weeks until I could move them, they had some hay in incase they were hungry but all were fine. I have moved them to their own field two weeks ago hoping they'll fatten up and start going but all lambs started to have messy bums. I have read this can be due to very wet grass (considering they were fine on poor grazing) or worms, they were last wormed 6 weeks ago but I have wormed them again to be sure.
I rounded all of them up apart from one yesterday to trim off all of the dirty bits as they are due to be crovect'ed this week but I need to pick some up (last done 8 weeks ago). I noticed today one had a messy bum again so rounded them up only to find the poor thing has been struck by fly strike (can't believe it, I obviously didn't check it well enough yesterday). I also got the one who avoided capture yesterday again only to find the poor thing was infested underneath the groin / testes, both were completed clipped and treated with the last bit of crovect we had left.
Anyway no I don't know what to do .... We are getting more crovect tomorrow and re-doing them all, should I use Clik is that better, should I move them on to poor grazing and supplement with hard feed and hay to dry them up a bit
?? Our ram and wether in one field are absolutely fine as are our ewes in another field but they are on poorer grazing than the lambs.