Worming the sheep

We started off with injectable wormer, this is good (apparently) because the dose is precise and you know each sheep got what it should. It is a bit time consuming though, and once the packet is open it leaks slightly as you have stuck a needle through the top of the bottle.

We moved on to oral wormer given with a syringe. We found this easier, but it can be messy and I have to put my hand in the sheeps mouth quite far which often results in some minor bites and grazes. It also is messy getting the wormer out of the bottle in to the syringe and lacks a bit of hygene as the syringe goes from sheeps mout back in to the bottle of wormer 

So I have bought a special applicator. We tried it today and it worked well. The pipe goes in the bottle of wormer, you set the dose on the gun and just keep squeezing it for each sheep. Apart form the tiny detail of catching them (which the dog actually managed to help with) it went smoothly.