Sheep best health management practices
1. Contact your certifier before using any product that is not included on your Organic System Plan (OSP).
2. Have visitors use booties or foot baths to clean and disinfect footwear before entering barns or pastures.
3. Provide a quarantine pen for at least three weeks for animals that are new to the farm. Be sure to trim and check all hooves of new sheep..
4. Consider a vaccination program.
5. Vaccinate lambs for CD-T (clostridial diseases, including tetanus) two times, 21 to 28 days apart.
Learn More6. Vaccinate ewes with a CD-T booster annually.
7.Vaccinate with tetanus antitoxin before any surgery.
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8.Have a parasite management procedure in place.
9. Perform FAMACHA weekly or biweekly through the grazing season to check for parasite infection.
10. Keep sheep off feed for 12 hours before deworming with herbal or synthetic products.
11. Deworm sheep on a dry lot and keep them off new pasture for 24 hours.
12. Deworm only sheep that show signs of anemia.
13. Rotate pasture to reduce contact with parasite larvae.
14. Breed genetically resistant animals; cull susceptible animals.
15. Trim hooves of all mature sheep one or two times per year, depending on growth. (Hooves are typically trimmed after shearing.)
16. Give sheep a foot bath in 10 percent zinc sulfate solution weekly through the grazing season. Use junk wool or shavings in the foot bath to minimize splashing of solution. Protect your eyes by using safety glasses when mixing the foot bath solution.
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