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Keep sheep healthy
with these remedies
How do you keep coccidiosis-related losses in your sheep flock in check? With good management and the
Mright dose of Byboost and Baycox, says Mr Hein Stumke.
r. Hein Stumke has been to use Byboost in the sheep feedlot is worth farming near Uitenhage every cent.
in the Eastern Cape for “Luckily Mr Rabé Kok, Bayer Animal more than 30 years. Health’s representative in the Eastern
The past 25 years Cape, convinced me. I work well with he and his family have Rabé. His service is excellent and if I need been running a feedlot advice or products, he is always quick to
and abattoir full-time at Alwynhoek Trust. help,” Hein says.
The feedlot and abattoir have an im- “The adjustment I have seen in the sheep
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Uitenhage, Eastern Cape
pressive turnover of thousands of sheep, cattle and goats per year. For that he needs a good livestock health plan.
Hein also has his own commercial cattle herd, consisting mainly of Brahmans and Brahman and Braunvieh crosses.
At any given time there will be about 11 000 sheep and 850 cattle in the feedlot. Boer and Angora goats are also kept on this farm and the feedlot for meat pro- duction.
Hein and his team slaughter about 200 sheep and lambs and 40 to 50 cattle per day.
IMPROVE HEALTH
Production losses and lower than expec- ted growth rates among his sheep however forced him to look for a solution.
“I use Baycox to curb diarrhoea in the sheep and Byboost to condition and im- prove production. In the beginning I was sceptical, because it sounded expensive to pay R9 to R10 per sheep for treatment.”
According to Hein the recommendation
BAYCOX
Diarrhoea is a common problem in young livestock such as lambs, calves and piglets and sometimes requires intensive investigations to determine the cause.
Worm infestation or other diseases may play a role, but coccidiosis may be the hidden cause of diarrhoea if these animals become infected with the disease-causing (pathogens) form
flock resulted in a big improvement. My sheep flock’s condition and growth have improved, especially when it comes to weight gain.
“We hand-pick and soon noticed the condition and grade of the sheep have improved greatly over time. Those who do not eat well, are removed.
“Where it used to be 200 to 300 sheep at any given time, we now only take out about 30 to 40 sheep in the whole flock for more intensive care.”
According to Hein, these smaller groups of sheep that do not gain sufficient weight, now catch up faster thanks to Byboost.
“With a little more care, they soon start improving. They often improve efficiently enough within a week or so to be included back in the large flock.
“Byboost definitely had an influence here and I will recommend it to anyone, since it worked so well for me. The sheep which usually “dropped out” were about 1% of the herd. We no longer have that 1% drop-out rate.”
of the parasite. The infection can damage the intestinal wall. This leads to diarrhoea, which leads to poor condition, poor growth, lower weaning weight and even death.
The advantage of Baycox is that
a single treatment with the prescribed dosage is sufficient to protect livestock against coccidia.
During the protection period animals
Mr Hein Stumke
The feedlot, with some 11 000 sheep and lambs, have almost completely eliminated fall-out numbers, thanks to good management and use of Byboost and Baycox.
Baycox is also used with great success in the sheep flock when needed.
“If there is any sign of diarrhoea amongst the sheep, I dose them immediately and within a day the sheep is ‘dry’.”
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can build up sufficient immunity against the parasites.
The benefit of a product with after- effects is that diarrhoea can be preven- ted, which leads to a better growth rate and healthier animals.
Baycox 5% is the right medicine against coccidiosis. It contains 50 mg/ml toltrazuril, which is effective against
a variety of coccidia.
Product registration numbers in terms of Act 36 of 1947 on page 3.
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