Lambs
Docking
- Clostridial vaccines – don’t forget their booster shot!
- Fly treatment
- Rings
- B12 injections
- Scabby mouth vaccine
- Tapeworm drench
Ewes
- Exit drench for ewes if you used long-acting drench products at pre-lamb
- Early weaning
- Cull ewes – prepare work certs for liver copper tests
- Order Toxoplasmosis and Campylobacter vaccines
Rams
- Palpation and Brucella ovis testing
- Surgery for teaser rams – at least a month before using
Dairy Grazers
- Monitor for lame bulls
- Plan removal date of bulls
- Ready for young stock arriving?
- Quarantine drench
- Tick treatment
- Vaccination history
- Mineral, nutrition history
- Check if any disease problems e.g. Scours, pneumonia?
Young Beef
Ready for weaning?
- NAIT tags
- Combo drench
- Rings for castration
- Clostridial vaccinations
- B12 injections
- Tickicides
- Book disbudding/dehorning/castrates
Calves
- Order NAIT tags for calves early
- Order clostridial vaccine, drench ready for weaning
- Plan lepto vaccine
- Book disbudding/dehorning/castrates