We cover all aspects of sheep health and welfare. Here, our team of vets and VetTechs give us the latest flock health advice and information to help drive performance in your flock.
Jo Brown is the author of this month’s Tails. What are we going to worm with and most importantly – do we need to worm them?
As much as we don’t want to admit it, Autumn is creeping in quickly. Last cuts of silage […]
Ruminants require cobalt in their diet as rumen microbes use this trace element to synthesise Vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 is essential for energy metabolism and deficiency can result in sub-optimal growth rates in lambs. Andy Henderson explains […]
July should be a fairly quiet time in the flock calendar and hopefully, many lambs are close to finishing or already away. It’s now time to figure out why we had marked certain ewes for culling back at lambing time and also select or source whatever replacements are […]
Did you know that Sheep Scab can infect up to 60% of your flock before any clinical signs are seen? So it’s a pretty important condition to control. Dan Stevenson gets us up to speed…
Sheep Scab, also called Psoroptic Mange, is caused by […]
With summer nearly here and the weather warming up, it is important to worm your fat lambs effectively. If you have already wormed your lambs, are you sure your wormer has worked effectively? With increasing resistance to wormers reported across the industry, Steph is here to tell […]
It’s great to see stock out again at the start of what we hope will be a fantastic grazing & growing season. It is often easy to forget what other life is also working hard for us in our fields, such as the humble dung beetle (bee & […]
Weaning will be on the horizon for many flocks now. There are several factors that can affect the success of weaning lambs; so it’s obviously a crucial period for lamb and ewe health. The ultimate aim is to wean without affecting growth rates – simple?
It’s that time of year again where Nematodirus rears its head, increasing the disease risk for young lambs out at pasture. We wanted to revisit the disease again, because the SCOPS forecast for March and April indicates a moderate to high risk for almost all areas of the […]
Good worm control is essential for the success of all sheep flocks. From the moment lambs are turned out onto pasture they are at risk from developing a worm burden. Jess Clayton our resident SQP at Whitchurch tells us more.
A burden can cause […]
In Rach Coopers first issue of TechTails with her new knee, she goes into detail on the importance of fly control this year and how the VetTech team can help.
Flies are just a real nuisance […]
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