Southern by choice
Herd Master
your sheep are beautiful!
Glad your cousin is okay.
Good Luck with your fence.
Glad your cousin is okay.
Good Luck with your fence.
SheepGirl's Journal - Photos of the sheep 4/25
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Well my neighbor is moving tomorrow so tonight when my mom gets home from work we will be going down and visiting with them 
I'm excited for this weekend...we are putting up a fence and my sheep can go back out to pasture. But I'm also wondering what I should do. Our grass hasn't seen a sheep (or any grazing ruminant other than deer) for over 10 yrs so it is super clean and I wanna keep it that way lol. I kind of want to triple hit my sheep with wormers and give them a foot bath. They don't have any obvious signs of worm infestations (scours, anemia, poor body condition, etc) or hoof troubles (well we've never had foot rot or foot scald, and my sheep aren't limping/have stinky feet) but I still want to make sure they go onto their pasture as 'clean' as possible. But I dunno. Maybe I will just leave them be and 'introduce' my pasture to my sheep's 'germs' What are your thoughts?
I'm excited for this weekend...we are putting up a fence and my sheep can go back out to pasture. But I'm also wondering what I should do. Our grass hasn't seen a sheep (or any grazing ruminant other than deer) for over 10 yrs so it is super clean and I wanna keep it that way lol. I kind of want to triple hit my sheep with wormers and give them a foot bath. They don't have any obvious signs of worm infestations (scours, anemia, poor body condition, etc) or hoof troubles (well we've never had foot rot or foot scald, and my sheep aren't limping/have stinky feet) but I still want to make sure they go onto their pasture as 'clean' as possible. But I dunno. Maybe I will just leave them be and 'introduce' my pasture to my sheep's 'germs'
What are your thoughts?
Straw Hat Kikos
The Kiko Cowboy
Throw them out there. The worms will follow the sheep no matter what so not point in waiting or slowly. I know what you mean though. It is all perfect and no worms and you put them out there and then there are worms out there. Kinda funny. lol
ksalvagno
Alpaca Master
If any worms are left from the deworming, then you are just putting the super bugs out there in the pasture. Better to have all of them out there so you can still deworm them with what is currently available. If you want, have a fecal done on each one and see where the counts are. If they are high, then deworm before putting them on the pasture, otherwise just put them out there.
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We have a really nasty thunderstorm rolling through right now...every lightning bolt that strikes has thunder loud enough to shake the house (and our house isn't old--it's relatively new). A couple sounded (and looked) like it came from literally right behind the house, but it will be late tonight or morning before I go out and see if my sheep got struck by lightning or not :/
ETA: Storm's over now and I went out and checked and all the sheep are still alive
ETA: Storm's over now and I went out and checked and all the sheep are still alive
Sugarbushdraft
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Wow, thats scareh... Glad your OK (along with your sheep!)
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Okay, well my neighbor gave me all of his sheep supplies/equipment/medicine before he left, so what I think I'm going to do is trim everybody's hooves, clean them to get the mud off, and then put them in a foot bath (my neighbor gave me zinc sulfate and kopertox, but I think I'll use the zinc sulfate) and then put them out on pasture. Paulie and Billy will stay in the pens so I can easily catch them to take them to auction next week. And I put band-aids on Ali's teats since I never did go out and buy teat tape. So the lambs are getting weaned. I think in a couple days I will take the band-aids off.
My neighbor also gave me Privermectin and Cydectin (and a tube of Safeguard), but they all expired in 2009 But our vet gave us an antibiotic to put in our cat's eyes when they get 'goopy' and it expired in 2010, but we used it this year on 2 kittens and it worked perfectly (the goopiness was gone in 3 days), so I think the wormers MAY still be safe to use if I need it. 'Cause I don't feel like shelling out $70 each for a couple bottles of dewormer when I only need $15-$20 worth out of each bottle lol. So yeah I think I will just skip the deworming since I'm not sure I want to use expired stuff and I don't feel like buying 3 new bottles. But triple hitting sheep (and goats) with different classes of dewormers gets the worm load down to pretty much 0.
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But yesterday I tried to find the markers for our property...uhmm no luck on two of them :/ And we still need to take out all that brush (we took out a whole shrub/tree trying to find one marker) so I think we might ask our neighbor if we could borrow their Cat to take out some of it so we can put a fence there. My grandfather already sprayed a lot of it with RoundUp to kill it off to make it easier to get rid of. Then tomorrow I will be spray painting the grass where the posts are going to save time this weekend.
My neighbor also gave me Privermectin and Cydectin (and a tube of Safeguard), but they all expired in 2009
But our vet gave us an antibiotic to put in our cat's eyes when they get 'goopy' and it expired in 2010, but we used it this year on 2 kittens and it worked perfectly (the goopiness was gone in 3 days), so I think the wormers MAY still be safe to use if I need it. 'Cause I don't feel like shelling out $70 each for a couple bottles of dewormer when I only need $15-$20 worth out of each bottle lol. So yeah I think I will just skip the deworming since I'm not sure I want to use expired stuff and I don't feel like buying 3 new bottles. But triple hitting sheep (and goats) with different classes of dewormers gets the worm load down to pretty much 0.-----
But yesterday I tried to find the markers for our property...uhmm no luck on two of them :/ And we still need to take out all that brush (we took out a whole shrub/tree trying to find one marker) so I think we might ask our neighbor if we could borrow their Cat to take out some of it so we can put a fence there. My grandfather already sprayed a lot of it with RoundUp to kill it off to make it easier to get rid of. Then tomorrow I will be spray painting the grass where the posts are going to save time this weekend.
bonbean01
Herd Master
How much RoundUp did your Grandfather spray in your pasture? Just asking since I believe there is a time to wait before putting your sheep on pasture that has been treated with RoundUp...can't remember, but just something to look into?
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Oh I have no idea :/ But my neighbor also gave me some 36" fencing and a couple step-in posts so I will be fencing that side off for a while anyway because there are some plants poisonous to sheep back there, and I want to get rid of them thoroughly before my sheep go out.bonbean01 said:
ksalvagno
Alpaca Master
If the dewormers expired in 2009, that is too long. Especially for liquid dewormers. They won't hurt anything but they won't be effective and you will probably just make the parasites resistant to those dewormers.
