Signpost: Many hands make light work at lambing time
Tomás O'Toole: 'It has been a busy but rewarding spring so far.'
Over the past few weeks, we have had very good weather here in the west, which helped in relation to the extra work involved with lambing and calving. Lambing is nearly coming to an end, with all the lowland flock now lambed, the hill flock will be finished lambing in another week. Lambing has mostly gone well this year.
There is a higher incidence of mastitis this year in comparison to last year in some ewes that required antibiotic treatment in consultation with my local vet. Lambs will be given the last of the full course of the clostridial vaccine. Over the next few weeks, they will also be dosed for coccidiosis as I have had issues with coccidiosis on the farm before.
