Give it up. 🤣🤣🤣

Spicy Kitty burritos are the answer- never go into combat without your towel. 😂

Dogs have masters & cats have "staff" 🤣

@@KevinD_33x150 It is: Dogs have masters and Cats have servants.

@@cjhs77338 If you want to be really specific, the original is: Dogs have masters, cats have slaves. Pre-dates both our previous comments by decades.

Yeah the Handypiece is a great tool. Yeah poor little guy wasn't feeling well. Now it's healthy it wouldn't be as pliable 😅

​lol!

Sheep don’t understand when you are trying to help them definitely

Sheep react that way naturally, they are prey animals. They give up accepting their fate, so to speak.

​@@heavystarch100 i dont know about that. Prey animals are surprisingly ruthless when theyre threatened. It would not be in any snimals best interests to just lay down and die

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Yes our Handypiece portable shearing handpiece is fantastic. I would highly recommend it to anyone who keeps sheep or other shear-able stock. We've used one on the farm for years, long before we started KZfaq.

You mean farmer/sheppard ?

It's always great when we can treat them and send them on their way. We want our sheep comfortable and healthy!

I’ll look up those books, we’ve read and have the DVDs for James Harriot All Creatures great and small.

The first sign of your sheep being sick, is the sheep being dead

Haha! I haven't heard of them until today. Will give them a look Thanks. It sounds so true. It's like the dilemma that the sheep will be difficult in direct relation to the need they be mustered 😅

Omg. What a miserable life. Just because they can give us the wool😢

I'm glad for you that you didn't experience this issue. I wish we didn't have it, it's not a fun job and of course isn't pleasant for our sheep.

I'm sure

Thank you so much!

Thanks, will do!

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Fortunately the fly season starts after the lambing season is finished otherwise we would have to do the same here.

Never heard of that one . And I talk to a lot of shepherds

It is. Bodily functions that occur in that zone can attract flies and start the process. It can occur on other parts of the body though. Thanks for your question.

@@FarmWithMeNZ Thanks for the answer :)

Yes bc when the fleece is long sheep tend to gather more poop on their back end which draws flies. It's not a fun thing to have. And can happen in as little as 12 hours

They go for the back, because sheep can’t rub that part on anything, to get rid of them

Here is a video explaining it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibtmmdqCx8e6pJc.html Thanks.

That's caused by flystrike, although it might be exacerbated by the sheep trying to rub affected areas against things like fences or trees to ease the pain.

Here is a video explaining flystrike.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibtmmdqCx8e6pJc.html

I've got 3 dogs currently, and the drone!

The Australian green blowfly lays live maggots on the sheep that crawl down and start biting the sheep causing a wound.

Basically, the maggots start eating the animal's flesh. It's potentially fatal if left untreated for long enough. Horrible disease.

Thank you for the information, I'd never heard of that before. Do you burn the fleece that you just sheared off???

​​​@@crystalcooper1358good question.... just saw in another comment that it goes in the compost! I guess where bugs should be 😅

Blowflies will be attracted to soiled fur, wool or feathers of animals and depending on the species of blowfly they'll deposit live larvae or eggs on the animal and they begin attacking, infesting and consuming the live tissues of the animal producing open wounds, some species will only consume dead or badly infected tissues (and such a species is cultured in highly controlled and sterile conditions for medical purposes to this day) but usually it's the ones that target living tissue that can be a real problem. In animals it's called flystrike or being flystricken but the general term for an infestation of parasitic larvae is myiasis, but I wouldn't google that one if you're eating if I were you. Naturally having insects creating an open wound is bad, harms the animal and damages the fleece, prevention and catching it early are important. I don't have a smallholding (so please correct me if I'm mistaken) but I'm surrounded in mixed arable-livestock farms, from what I can tell it's pretty common practice to dock the long tails of sheep breeds that have long wooly tails when they're very young by applying tight rubber bands that cut off perfusion and the tail dies and drops off as they represent a surface that can get soiled easily.

Lambs and ewes are in different sharing schedules. Also some pesky sheep do a great job hiding at sharing time and need to be shorn when they are finally captured.

Here is a video we made explaining it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibtmmdqCx8e6pJc.html

It goes in the compost, it is good fertiliser.

No, the sheep just gave up trying and allowed me to save it thankfully.

Here's a video we made explaining how and why this happens kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibtmmdqCx8e6pJc.html

Fertiliser.

It's a romeny breed sheep. Yes some are more susceptible.

Yes, it would be very uncomfortable.

Sorry about that, here is a video that explains it in detail. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibtmmdqCx8e6pJc.html

Flystrike isn't noticeable until the damage is done but you'd very very surprised and happy to realise that sheep heal very quickly and the time it takes you to think about what's for dinner, the sheep has forgotten what has just happened. Sheep feel more distress being away from their mob more than anything else.

The sheep is happy and healthy now.

Only a day or two for it to start healing over. Here's a video with some before and after videos of some sheep with the same situation. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z55dibWhzZewhIk.html

What do you think he should have done?

At some times of the year sunburn can be an issue. Depending on the severity of the flystrike we can use a cover comb on the shearing Handypiece which would be more like a buzz cut than a shave. However this isn't always suitable. We do our best to give our sheep the best outcome possible.

No, we use a special insect growth inhibitor.

Ideally you would use a cover comb for this to prevent sunburn, it depends on the time of year and how bad that instance of strike actually is.

I was thinking more about the cold, sheep suddenly lost any protection against the cold, but I suppose that’s not an issue if it’s summer time in this video.

Sunburn doesn't eat your flesh day after day.

I imagine a bit of both, but once shorn no more maggots.

No, only in areas where those flies are present.

Slow Down and be careful in that area.

Sell it to market.

Here is a video explaining it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibtmmdqCx8e6pJc.html

Yes it can kill them, it's why we keep a close eye and treat the sheep as soon as we see a problem. It can be an entry point for infection.

Sadly we need them. Circle of life. Lol

Check out this video to learn all about it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibtmmdqCx8e6pJc.html

Yes, the rest of the fleece will be sold and used.

I'm sure the farmer will keep an eye on her. Maybe get her some factor 50 and a sun bonnet. 😂

My god🤦‍♀️

Here's a video we made explaining it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibtmmdqCx8e6pJc.html

Check out the channel, there are some up close videos for ya.

That's a good observation. For some reason once subdued they typically don't thrash about. Maybe it's a part of being a domesticated animal for so long.

Here are some videos explaining it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibtmmdqCx8e6pJc.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gpifirdnr-DZgXk.html

No they lay there eggs on the sheep which hatch into lava or maggots which then eat away at the top layers of flesh causing pain and infection.