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Livestock and smallholding · LK-60

Flystrike Watch and Prevention Record

A free printable flystrike record: checks through the risk season, struck sheep by tag and site, dagging and crutching, preventive products and fly trap checks.

First page of the Flystrike Watch and Prevention Record — Keep every flystrike check of the season on one log, so a struck group or missed week shows up. It also shows when preventive cover ran out and which groups need dagging first.
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What this sheet is for

Keep every flystrike check of the season on one log, so a struck group or missed week shows up. It also shows when preventive cover ran out and which groups need dagging first.

Who it is for

Sheep keepers and shepherds through the blowfly season.

How to use it

  1. Write the risk window you work to and the forecast or alert you follow at the top.
  2. Log each check by group or field: how many were looked at and any animal found struck, by tag and where on the body.
  3. Record what was done, any dagging or crutching, and any preventive product with the withdrawal end date copied from its label.
  4. Note each time the fly traps are emptied.
  5. At the end of the season, total the strikes and decide what to change.

What is on the sheet

2 pages, in this order:

Page 1

Printed under the title: Every flystrike check across the risk season on one running log: the group looked at, any animal found struck and where, dagging or crutching done, preventive treatment given and the fly traps emptied.

Your season, your label. No risk dates, product, timing or withdrawal period is printed. When the season starts and ends depends on where you are and on the weather that year, so write the window you work to and the forecast you follow. Copy products and withdrawal periods from the label, and ask your vet how to treat a struck animal.

Write-on lines: Flock or holding · Season · Risk window you work to · Forecast or alert you follow

Checks — one line per group per check

Table, 30 rows: Date · Group · Checked · Struck · Action taken · Dagged · Preventive · Clear on · Traps · By

Page 2

Write-on lines: Animals struck this season · Groups worst affected · Reviewed by · Date

Ruled lines: To change next season: timing, dagging, shearing, traps

Questions

Why is there no date for the start of the flystrike season?

Because it moves with where you are and with the weather each year: it can start early in a warm spring and run late into autumn. The sheet has a blank for the window you work to and for the forecast you follow, so the record matches your own conditions.

Does this replace the medicine record?

No. A preventive product given to sheep still goes on your animal medicine record with batch and withdrawal. This sheet keeps it beside the checks and the strikes, so you can see whether the cover worked.

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