Spotting Mastitis In Your Ewe Flock: Tips For Prevention And Identification
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 18. 05. 2024
- Uncover the dangers of mastitis in ewes in this eye-opening sheep farming vlog. We delve into the underlying causes of this potentially fatal condition in sheep, shedding light on the importance of early detection in an easy to understand manner. Our video provides a comprehensive overview of the symptoms to look out for and offers practical guidance on both treatment and prevention methods. By implementing the strategies discussed, you can effectively combat mastitis and safeguard the health of your flock. Tune in to our vlog to gain valuable insights and ensure the well-being of your sheep.
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00:00 Introduction
00:32 Straw To Keep Ewes Clean And Dry
04:33 Drying Ewes Naturally
09:10 Dry Hay
09:36 Leaving Lambs On Longer
10:11 Checking Udders
14:06 Dorset Lambs
15:34 Relieving The Pressure
16:55 Preparing Dorset Ewes For Weaning
18:12 Treating Ewes
19:40 Accelerated Lambing
28:18 Suffolk Lamb Races
good morning Lynn and Arnie. Love that he says "I'm a man, I can learn!" good logo for merch!
Lol! You're right! I will see what I can do with that!đ
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Good afternoon Arnie and Lynn. I absolutely love the careful attention given to the newly weaned ewes in their nice clean pack. Heather is looking phenomenal but of course I am quite prejudiced. That was really interesting facts about the drying up process and I never did think about how often lambs nursed and no wonder the mamas need to eat as often as they do or they would never keep up with them. Oh Arnie canât avoid touching the lambs. You have to chuckle at that. đđđ And I like that he felt sorry for the Suffolk lamb. He is a softy along with you. â€â€â€. Maisey is beautiful and come on little Mister Starr growing. Hard to believe the lambs are less than 3 months old being almost as big as mom. To Arniethe lambs are Bub. đđ. I like that you give the ewes a break to recover and be in good condition. Perfect in my eyes to spoil the sheep. The happy lambs arenât going to stop having lamb races. đđ. Yup the teenagers want to do their own thing. Thanks professors for all the cool information. Big big hugs to you both. đ„°đ„°đ„°đ„°đ„°đđđâ€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïž
To Arnie, the cats are Bub too!đ€Łđ€Łđ„°đ„°
@@EwetopiaFarms that just makes me laugh because he is never calling them the wrong names đ€Łđ€Łđ€Łâ€ïžâ€ïž
Good morning!
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I love the ethical way you farm your ewes you get the best from them and you get many more years from your ewes.
Agree!
Love y'all. I got caught back up. See you tomorrow
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â€Thanks for sharing your experiences and insights
You're welcome đ
thank you so much for the insight to your experience.....invaluable!!
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The wealth of both your knowledge is appreciated by me and I am very sure many, many others.
Complimentary I say, the lamb races. They look like grown sheep đđ. Well done.
THANK EWE!!
Good morning (belated) from Paducah KY đ§
It must be such a scary thing since now is the highest risk of mastitis. You do as much as you can to prevent it though so hopefully you won't see any in your ewes. They should accept lambs that weigh more than 120 lbs at market. Three months of age seems like the perfect age to remove lambs from their mothers. Those udders look pretty good so far. Hopefully they'll stay that way! I like how you do it all natural too. I hope that none of your lambs get sore mouth or joint ill! So far so good! Maisy is looking good. Sorry to hear about Little.Mister. I'm really glad that you don't breed back to back. You guys treat your sheep very well. It was funny how Arnie told the lambs to stop running! I hope that you have a nice day and see you tomorrow!â€đ
We will start watching for sore mouth now. There is nothing you can do about it though. It is a virus and just needs to run its course. Hopefully no one will get it but it creates immunity if they do, so either way is fine I guess đ
I loved seeing Maisy and Mister! Is Mister going to be ok? He is such a sweet lamb. Is there anything I can send you to help him?đ„°
The problem is that Little Mister doesn't want to eat real food. I am watching him but there really isn't much we can do. He wants to stay a baby and not grow up đ
Arnie youâve got a soft heart, thinking the ewe should stay with her lamb just a bit longer so he doesnât feel lonely.đ
Lynn, your info on mastitis is spot on. When we had a small herd of dairy cows (when I was a kid) we milked out the cow a bit if her bag wasnât shrinking the way it should.
Aw, poor little Mister. He really doesnât seem to be gaining weight, and seems small compared to the others.
How is little Muffet doing?
She is in an upcoming video and is growing like a weed or maybe I should say flower!đ„°
Why am I not at all surprised that you handle drying off this way? I often have thought how hard it must be on a ewe to just have the lamb off and nothing to release the pressure if needed. As a mother I hated when one of my kids slept through a meal! By watching and releasing needed pressure you are being kind, and again showing that you respect your sheep. â€
Thanks, Kate! Moms that nursed their babies understand right away đ
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When the goal is to enjoy your job, and you get pleasure out of spoiling your sheep, everyoneâs happy.
Yes, I get CIDRs too. Still, thereâs a cost to them. That ewe isnât doing nothing for four months, sheâs getting back into condition. She didnât have to nurse her lambs for a full 90 days but they got bigger quicker. CIDRs might still be the choice when youâre paying off debt but the margin might not be as big as expected.
120 pounds /54 kilos
2012 when i buy my sheeps i put them with other sheeps the old owners come to see my sheeps and first time electric fence they went up to stroke sheeps heinrich put his head in fence the owner of the land went out and couldnt turn the power of heinrich was getting electrcuted i put my hand wrapped around towel i managed to get him free i was electricuted too
Yikes! We have electric fencing they definitely smart.
Yes, they can get electrocut if they get caught up in it
before i bought heinrich he was for a few weeks with diarhear the owners didnt bother i was there washing all the excrement off him almost every day he got better the reason he got this was from dandelions its ok to eat after flowering because theres too much energy i think right word after flowering ok but in summer when too hot not good to eat
Yes, rich feed can cause diarrhea đ
@@EwetopiaFarms i like to encourage some good weeds on meadow grass alone not good
Good Morning Lynn and Arnie, how many more ewes do you have left to deliver? I kind of lost track.
Not sure. Probably 6 but some are open. We will find out exactly on shearing day
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i been to a shepherd today i went with my bicycle 30 kilometres quite hilly wen i got there i had to wait 2.5 hours he takes his afternoon sleep he said his lambs are about 40 kilos and 4 eur a kilo plus taxes almost 200 eur a sheep it will kost me 600 eur in a few weeks the prices have doubled since 2012 well my sheeps were 2 and 3 years old not lambs i paid 100 eur a sheep another shepherd said 3 or 4 eur a kilo looks like i have to pay more if i want a good sheep i hope it will be fine i got to make fencing because old fence got to be moved
Yes, prices need to go up on sheep because input costs nowadays for feed and meds are astronomical
@@EwetopiaFarms yes i agree but expensive for pets how much do you get paid if another person or farmer wants a ewe to mate with your ram
what about symtoms when sheep eat but dont put on weight but dont have worms
Could be some other disease
Where are you located in Ontario?
Kingston area
Not everyone that Cidr ewes breed them back to back for the record. We Cidrâed our ewes last fall they lambed End of November. My flock is always kept in good condition and lambs are weaned off at 80 days, ewes have 3 months rest. And are Cidr for September & October lambs this fall. đ we do it for work reasons for my self and partner and the winter temperatures here in Alberta.
For sure! Their are plenty of people who don't breed back to back.
And actually this was a good point because if you are not a farmer and have a job off-farm, using cidrs is a great way to ensure you are around to help with lambing by scheduling their due dates and you will have greater success with lambing.đ„°
My opinion is, i think it is cruel to keep breeding ewes back to back, that's like if someone made you have a baby every 9 months! What would happen to your body and your health?? Something has got to give! You would not be very healthy for long and your children wouldn't be very healthy either! My opinion......đ€
The nature of using animals to make money, has that dilemma: "Do I do what's absolute best for my business model or do I favour what's best for the animal?" Hopefully, farmers can work for the best compromise. I left horse racing for the simple reason that, to make money I would have to treat them like machines. It's why most race horses break down by age 5 or 6 with serious leg damage, even though their natural life span is over 25 years. The absolute worst part of that industry is, they put riders on their backs starting just after their first year to get ready for the start of racing at age 2. Common sense knows they aren't full grown until 4, and it you add the weight of a rider too soon: shin, ankle and knee injuries WILL follow.
@@gregedmand9939 Yeah, i also have seen young horses ruined from the racing industry as well.I owned rescued racing greyhounds for 17 years, one of my dogs was only 8 and his body was like he was 14! He was a champion racer, by the time he was 3 he had a horrible TBI, a broken tail, and lost a toe which took him off the track, he suffered grand maul seizures and i tried to give him the best retirement he could have regardless of what the racing industry did to him at a young age! It is sad. It should always be in the animals best interest and not money!
@@scootytamra yes, as much as we don't like animal activists for harassing farmers, they do serve a purpose. They are one extreme, treating animals like machines are the other extreme, but hopefully the clashes between the two will result in regulations being put in place where animal welfare is required while still being able to make a living providing food. Changes to the dairy industry, have definitely improved cow health and welfare and although the new facilities are expensive, farmers have less work, health issues and better quality of life all around while still being profitable
@@EwetopiaFarms I hope it changes for the better in the areas that is needed. I will always side for the animals.
@scootytamra if you let those ewes loose in the wild they will breed year after year, whenever theyâre in heatâŠthatâs their natureâŠso I canât understand your point, makes no sense
what are blue face sheep called
Blue-faced Leicester
@@EwetopiaFarms no it was not that one but maybe german call it blue face
@@EwetopiaFarms ill have to see if i can film then ill ask shepherd
how many lambs you sell in a year
Hundreds
@@EwetopiaFarms i thought maybe 70 but if you sold a lamb for 200 dollars and you had 200 maybe 60000 dollars
The nature of using animals to make money, has that dilemma: "Do I do what's absolute best for my business model or do I favour what's best for the animal?" Hopefully, farmers can work for the best compromise. I left horse racing for the simple reason that, to make money I would have to treat them like machines. It's why most race horses break down by age 5 or 6 with serious leg damage, even though their natural life span is over 25 years. The absolute worst part of that industry is, they put riders on their backs starting just after their first year to get ready for the start of racing at age 2. Common sense knows they aren't full grown until 4, and it you add the weight of a rider too soon: shin, ankle and knee injuries WILL follow.
So true. It is a sad reality. Dairy cows have it extremely tough with the push to produce enormous amounts of milk. Luckily, their new housing conditions are much improved in the new barns. And now, especially in Canada, there is this push for back to back lambing for the meat industry. It is more about money, mass production, and family farms are becoming obsolete. Has the world progressed or regressed? I guess that is the question đ
SighâŠ.
To me, i would think you would lose more than money if you bred back to back, you'd have sick ewes and lambs either losing one or both doing it that way, they are living creatures thay are not throw aways!
Back to back probably is more profitable despite deaths. It is a throw away society today. It's too bad animals are too.
Ok I really hate that that is unfortunately true for some.
best thing is dont rely on vet try to do stuff on your own
Sometimes but sometimes you need a professional