Foot Treaments

Earlier in the year a lot of the sheep had sore feet. It affected rams, ewes and lambs. We are not sure what the reason for it was. Wet weather does not help and it is something that spreads between sheep and from contaminated ground. The treatment is to pare the hoof, put an antibiotic spray on it, walk the sheep through a medicated foot bath and sometimes an injection of pain relief and antibiotic is required. This is a video of Simon foot paring a lamb. He is telling me to let the other lambs out of the footbath they have been standing in for 5 minutes. The medicated water in the footbath comes up to just above the top part of the sheep's hoof (coronary band). The lamb he is working on will run up the footbath and stand in it alongside its mates for a further five minutes after paring.

Sheep Patrol with Clara

Clara assisting with checking the sheep on the morning walk. She is generally very good provided there are not distractions for her or for me. Anybody else in the field and she is very difficult to control. These sheep just had their feet done yesterday. We have a very low incidence of lameness now thanks to a lot of hard work. A foot treatment video will follow soon!