The old Sheep Dip

Found this on our walk today

 

Thought I recognised it

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2144120

 

Ahh the days of sheep dipping..... always used to get dragged into doing that, putting the sheep in that is. !

Would make a good water feature after a clean up !

 

Or maybe this:

 

yes they do and by me its called a "drench"

 

very correct , they must do both the same day or it could be worming I will ask the girl who mum dad have a sheep farm, very rural office with the people I work with as another girl her mum and dad have a dairy farm

 

The senior health visitor I had for my eldest son used to tell me tales of farming in the 1940s and she told me how the farming families used the sheep dip to control head lice in kids

 

and look at the restrictions now with all the ill health it caused the farm workers

 

to think we eat that at times !!! when I worked on the dairy farm the amount of antibiotics those cows got was ridiculous also when they had mastitis

 

So me not eating land animals was a smart move after all

 

Just to add before I've get social workers at my door, I didn't take this as advice and dip my kids!

 

Wasn't the chemicals used in dipping, indicated as one of the causes for suicide in "farmers"? Didn't mention how many farm hands affected though which was a worry!