At Chelford Farm Supplies, Cheshire, we understand the importance of ensuring you have happy and healthy sheep and lambs, whether you have a couple of sheep at home or a sheep farm. We supply a wide range of both pour-on and spot-on sprays, which will leave your flock fly-free, as well as mineral licks and milk replacers for sheep from leading brands including Kilco, Nettex and Rumenco.
When lambs are born some will struggle with digestive upset, which can have potentially damaging effects on the health of their gut. Provita Lamb Response is a unique probiotic supplement, which when given to new-born lambs at birth will re-colonise the gut with healthy bacteria while boosting their immunity. This spectam replacement will supply the lamb with egg proteins and vitamins to further enhance the gut, as well as stimulate metabolism and growth to give new-born lambs the kick start to life they need!
Strike first! To prevent the first wave of flies from breeding it’s important to get your fly control solution in place as early as possible. Using a pour-on or spot-on fly control product will help to minimise fly numbers for the rest of the season. Spotinor is a spot-on solution and a farming favourite! This spot-on formula treats and prevents infestations of ticks, lice, keds and established blowfly strikes on sheep, as well as lice and ticks on lambs. Using the Spotinor Applicator ensures you get the right dosage and is easy to use for successful application each time.
Have you thought about your flock’s worm control programme for the coming year? It should include Zolvix Oral Solution, as this group 4 wormer is used for the treatment and control of gastrointestinal nematode infections and their associated diseases in all sheep. Administering Zolvix at the correct time of year will kill all significant gut worms.
Nematodirus is a nasty disease in lambs, and can strike very quickly causing a high number of deaths in lambs. SCOPS recommends 1-BZ white wormers as the active choice for nematodirus battus worms. Rycoben SC is the only white drench licensed as an aid in the prevention of cobalt and selenium deficiency. Both of these minerals are vital to support lamb growth, and Rycoben is also effective when targeting roundworms, tapeworms, lungworms and adult liver fluke.
Have you protected your lambs against pasteurellosis? Heptavac P Plus protects sheep and lambs against pasteurella and clostridia. These are the most common bacterial diseases in sheep, and if your flock is unprotected there will be a risk of attack from either pathogens all year round. This vaccine will actively immunise sheep in the control of lamb dysentery, pulpy kidney, struck, tetanus, braxy, blackleg, black disease and clostridial metritis. The vaccine can be used on sheep of all ages from three weeks old and will control systemic pasteurellosis in weaned fattening and breeding sheep.