How To Prevent, Diagnose & Treat Parasites (Worms) in Sheep 

Thank you guys, this is really helpful for new sheep owners!

I LOVE your videos they are very informative and what I love the most is that you speak from experience. Please keep them coming. Watching from South Africa.

Very informative, comprehensive, and straight to the point.Thank you for making this video.

Thank you for sharing what you've learned

Thank you so much - really useful and clear information.

I also love your videos. I feel like I know so much about small farming now. I was so excited to see a new video! Keep em coming! 😃

I think Horns is gonna be your new favourite... We started with Icelandic, which are all horned, and just recently picked up a couple Romanovs which are polled. I tell you, it is SO much easier to handle and control a horned sheep! Yesterday, I had to manually shear (with scissors) one of my Romanovs in order to treat a massive lice infestation, but with no horns we had to use a dog collar and leash. Well, she was constantly strained against the collar the whole time, which negatively affected her breathing, I felt so bad!

Excellent video. Thank you

Thank you 🙏🏾 you are very kind women

I raise goats, and parasites are the number 1 problems new goat owners have. Good to have more people talking about famacha instead of “schedules”! Management practices, and culling over generations, are a huge contributing factors to how well your flock/herd handles parasite problems. Multi species managemen/rotation can help reduce problems, and grazing in brush as opposed to pasture is a huge huge benefit to goats and sheep. We have acres and acres of blackberries and brushy baby trees and that is best for browsing ruminants such as sheep and goats. I deworm so infrequently that I have had more death to meningeal worm than to barber pole etc. Then again, I raise DAIRY goats, and they tend to be far more resistant due to dairy producers reluctance to use wormers and lose out on milk. Meat and fiber breeds have unfortunately been the victim of “routine” deworming practices and have become less resistant as a result… Love that you don’t feel the need to dock tails and instead breed for short ones and keep the sheep diarrhea free to prevent fly strike, rather than relying on short tails to do so. Hate to see the prolapses so common in sheep with docked tails… Thanks for the vid, was a good watch. 😊

We have a really hard time sourcing the different dewormers, especially Prohibit. I’m starting to test out Copper Sulfate which I learned about from the Linessa Farm RU-vid channel, since this is easier for us to buy and have on hand.

Good stuff!

Very smart women great video thank you for sharing.

Good video

Great video. I've always added apple cider vinagre to their water troughs, clean their pens weekly, rotate them when grass is too low, I even buy some Coors light and add it to their water from time to time.. And even though it sounds cruel, cull the ones that are weak, sick...

Just a fyi, there is a vid on YT from 8 yrs ago about how to do the FAMACHA test. The vet says you should in scoring the animals to try and look at the lower membrane, via the "cover, push, pull pop" method. Unfortunately even in her video one of the pics shows it done differently than she recommends.

Great video! I was wondering if you have a chart or info for Ivermectin injection dosages for your sheep by their weight? I can't find anything for a sub q dosage to take care of external parasites. Thanks!

Where do you recommend purchasing the Toltrazuril?

Just a heads up. You are not checking the famacha correctly. You have to push in on the top of the eye before rolling the bottom eyelid.

My family and I are trying to get started with hair sheep this year. Would love to hear any tips you may have to help us get started

Thank you! What's you favorite dewormer for barber pole.

I eat lots of raw beef and lamb, these parasites can be transferred to humans too? I eat mostly eat muscle meat, and fat.

why not using pumpkins they are natural dewormers and sheep and goats and other animals like them to

How do you prevent deer tick bites?

When the females are in heat, do the rams go crazy and fight each other? Do the master constantly during that time? I've seen a world champion coon hound that was studding so much he actually almost died to exhausting. I blame the owner for doing it that much, but each time he makes as much as $1000 each time.... If the dog has great genetics and successful at that level of competitions, people will gladly pay that much to have dogs that will have his genetics and characteristics.... Same hound was the stud of at least 3 other world champions.

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i give lamb grower with the medicine in it to all my sheep