Kodesh Acres - This is my journal about sheep

[Baymule]

What is the dosage per pound?

It’s on the bottle. 1-2 ml
Looking it up, 3-4 ml for adult sheep

 

[KodeshAcres]

@dewo123 LOL

 

[KodeshAcres]

What is the dosage per pound?

Yes, what would be the dosage? @Baymule

 

[Baymule]

Yes, what would be the dosage? @Baymule

I use 1 ml on lambs, 2 ml on adults and repeat in 10 days. Plus B vitamin shot and Nutridrench

 

[Ridgetop]

Get larger needles too for the heavier B vitamin shot.

 

[farmerjan]

We use 18 ga and 16 ga for everything except when we give shots in the eye lid for pinkeye... then we use 20 ga. That is 1/2 cc pen and 1/2 cc dex....... All needles are 1/2 or 5/8 inch. All shots are given subcutaneous... unless specifically stated to be IM...
Sharp needles are the most important..... and a syringe that is easy to push.... I think I only use the 16 ga for oxytet...draxxin.... maybe some penicillin when it is real cold. But I use the 18 ga for most everything...

 

[KodeshAcres]

Found another sheep (Weller) with a bad case of bottle jaw I’ve been administering turpentine, linseed oil (FLAX), and B12 (orally) to him and Dottie.

Although I do understand that they need iron, I was doing some reading in the Pat Colbey book and she states that giving an injection on B12 once a day for a week with a little vitamin C would be best to rebuild red blood count. The ewes have access to all the individual vitamins and minerals in the buffet feeder and I’ve seen them eating out of it quite a bit. I guess it’s time for me to learn how to inject a sheep NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT!
Both Dottie and Weller seem more active, they are up grazing constantly. The bottle jaw comes and goes, I still don’t fully understand that part. We are hanging in there y’all.

We bought a milk stand going to milk Dolly today.

Pasture is looking good, might start rotationally grazing more aggressively since we still had issues when moving them every 2-3 days.

 

[KodeshAcres]

Get larger needles too for the heavier B vitamin sho

We use 18 ga and 16 ga for everything except when we give shots in the eye lid for pinkeye... then we use 20 ga. That is 1/2 cc pen and 1/2 cc dex....... All needles are 1/2 or 5/8 inch. All shots are given subcutaneous... unless specifically stated to be IM...
Sharp needles are the most important..... and a syringe that is easy to push.... I think I only use the 16 ga for oxytet...draxxin.... maybe some penicillin when it is real cold. But I use the 18 ga for most everything...

This is all new to me, I’m guessing I can get these needles at the tractor supply or any feed store?

 

[farmerjan]

Since I can't remember where you are.....Yes, needles and syringes are available at most any co-op, feed store and places like TSC or Rural King ... Probably Atwoods ? in TX... They will come as singles or pkgs of 5 or 20 or something... You will seldom give more than 5cc at a time to small animals like sheep or goats... We use 5cc and 3 cc syringes most of the time..... Most vaccines are 2 cc or 5cc dosages. And we have a few 10(12) cc syringes for oxytet or Draxxin or other antibiotics for the cows... but they are dosed on weight most of the time...and most all things say not to give more than 10cc per site anyway...
We dedicate syringes to certain products ... and they can be reused ... but the needles need to be changed out. They get dull putting them into "living leather", the animals hide. Ideally you use a needle, single use... we use them on about 5-10 when vaccinating.... you can tell when they do not go into the skin easy, they are getting dull... and switch to a new one. For safety's sake, we use leur lock syringes... the needle twists on the end... some do not twist on, just push straight on the end, they are okay but if the animal jumps on occasion the needle will pull off the end of the syringe.....you can accidentally depress the plunger and shoot out whatever is in the syringe; or the needle stays in the animal so then you have to get it and pull it out.... Not the end of the world, but for high priced antibiotics like Draxxin... it is VERY costly to lose a syringe full .....
If an animal jerks and the syringe happens to fall to the ground, with a leur lock the needle might get contaminated in the dirt... you just put a new needle on the end... $.50 or something needle, as opposed to $25 or something worth of drug in the syringe.
Could you go to your name top right, down to account details and down to location and put in a state or something so people like me, with sieves for memory, will see it under your avatar and can tailor answers for your area...

 

[KodeshAcres]

Ok first time milking Dolly, she hadn’t been milked since June 21st.