Lambs get shorn: for fly strike prevention & protect dung beetles
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 16/07/2020

Most farmers use a pour on insecticide called click to prevent fly strike. This is known to do harm to dung beetles. If it harms dung beetles it will harm other insect life that eat dung like water beetles, butterflies, moths, hover flies, ants and many more. Loss of insects means less food for birds, hedgehogs, badgers and foxes.



Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We sell, Zwartbles sheep, Zwartbles blankets and yarn made from the sheep, and calendars featuring the Cats Shepherd Bodacious and Inca the World's Smallest Sheepdog.