Teresa and I just went down to the shop stall and called all of the sheep in so we could do the final drench with Corid for the 6 ewes that had scours and to give the first of 3 Penicillin shots for the ewe lamb with the swollen stifle joints.
I came across the first negative to the low carb life style we have adopted. I've lost 35 pounds and some of our largest ewes are about all I can do to control if they decide they don't want to be caught. The long Shepherds Crook still let me use leverage on our bigger girls but it's about all I can do to hang on to Wild Thang and her sibling (just like the other day). Being the wildest, they are the last to get caught every time and the fact that most of the girls don't care when I enter their space, those two can't get away since they have no movement.
The handling chute makes it easy but you hate to have to crowd 45 sheep in there just to get to two of them. All of the others I can just walk up to and give them the drench.
May work better by targeting them first....get the jump on them....and then do the rest.......that way they can't see it coming and work up the anxiety level.....I had to do that with the goats....always had to catch Lightning first, cause he was the hardest to catch....especially if he had fore warning.....
We pulled fecals on all 20 of the senior ewes this afternoon. Teresa did the analysis on 6 of the ewes that had the highest parasite load over the last year. 4 of the 6 had zero eggs today and those four had a decreasing egg count over the last 3 times we pulled fecal samples. The paddocks these girls are in have had no special treatment since I sprayed nitrogen late last summer. Those 4 have not received a wormer since August 2018 and the only treatment has been the garlic drench once a month. The other two have also decreased down to the acceptable level but both of them had been wormed in February.