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.
Despite a challenging early grass season, the growth returned and ewes are generally in good, if not over fat condition. What has been hit are scanning rates and forage reserves for the winter. Dan Stevenson explains.
Most people seem happy with fewer triplets and […]
We’re into the problem period for Fluke in sheep – late Autumn to Winter, and due to its financial implications including body condition deterioration and death, it’s a disease most sheep producers are tuned in to. However, it’s now commonly suspected that resistance is building against the most effective treatment. […]
Andrew Henderson talks us through the first meeting of the Peaks Beef & Sheep Discussion Group at LLM Bakewell on the 11th September.
It was great to get our first on farm meeting as LLM Derbyshire underway. The meeting was held at my farm, where I provided four rams for assessment. […]
This heavily under-reported disease is caused by the Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV). The virus is highly contagious, spreading by the aerosol route from sheep to sheep but also through the colostrum and milk to lambs. Rob Howe tells us more.
The virus causes tumours which obliterate the normal lung function, and […]
Synchronising ewes for a tighter lambing period or to allow sheep to lamb early in the season can have many benefits. A short lambing period will reduce labour costs […]
With lambing now over for most people, though perhaps not yet the distant memory everyone would like, our attention should turn to making the most of the lambs you have on the ground. Minimising losses is a crucial part of this and to this end money is better spent on […]
During the first six weeks of life a lambs growth is provided almost entirely by the ewe’s milk. This is therefore influenced by a number of factors […]
Although it may not feel like it, Spring is just around the corner and with it, the risk of Coccidiosis and Nematodirus battus hitting your lambs. Amy Glanvill talks us through the symptoms and preventative measures.
Coccidiosis is caused by the protozoan Eimeria spp. and can affect lambs at both housing […]
At this stage some people will have all but finished lambing, some will be part or most of the way through and others will only be getting prepared. Whatever your stage in the lambing season, preventing new born lamb losses is a key focus area for each and every system […]
Botulism has gained more notoriety in the press over the last few years, especially in areas where herds of cattle have suffered big losses and get into the local news. We see it less commonly in sheep but they are at serious risk from exactly the same disease. A recent […]
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