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Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) group has launched its nematodirus forecast with the aim of helping producers deal with variation in disease risk this spring. The group said the forecast will be “really important” to help...

Welcome to Ruminant Health & Welfare 2023 will go down as the year of collaboration with the launch of the RH&W Dairy Welfare and RH&W Sheep welfare strategies in June and November respectively, both with a 5-year vision to show progress in animal welfare, and both with nearly 100 supporting...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The main message for livestock farmers in relation to liver fluke this year is to “test, don’t guess’. Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) and Control of Cattle Parasites Sustainable (COWS) have labelled 2023 as a “very strange...

Tatties, taters, spuds - whatever you call potatoes probably reflects your cultural and geographical background. Since first introduced to the world from South America, they have lifted millions of our predecessors out of food poverty and fuelled the industrial revolution. The loss of the potato...

Just wondering, I do have most of the gear to do this myself but haven't got around to it.. I took in field samples from lambs on the 19th, the lab report says they arrived the 22nd, and were tested on the 26th? Is it me, or does this seem like a long time, almost a week before the sample is...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland A new blood test is giving hope that sheep scab can be eradicated in the UK and Ireland. But it is by no means a ‘silver bullet’. Developed by staff at Scotland’s Moredun Research Institute, the new test acts to identify infected sheep before physical...

Written by Michael Geary from Agriland Boehringer Ingelheim has confirmed to Agriland that it has ceased the production of the flukicide Trodax. The flukicide, which will have been used on many farms across the country, was used to treat cattle and sheep for mature and immature fluke, as...

Written by William Kellett As cattle are turned out to grass, farmers are being reminded of the crucial importance of an effective parasite control strategy. Matt Colston, Elanco ruminant technical consultant, explains that there are four key parasites beef and dairy producers should be...

Commonly used in Asia , sounds well dodgy https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)32506-6/fulltext

NADIS has developed a series of bio-security farm risk assessments for the major endemic diseases of cattle and sheep. The risk assessments have been designed to enable farmers and vets to identify the bio-security risk priorities for a farm. A report is produced so the risk priorities are...

The November Parasite Forecast includes seasonal disease advice Autumn Fluke Forecast Sheep : PGE and Scab Cattle : Lungworm infection and treatment at housing Issue: November Figure 1: Egg count data shows the most recent counts for roundworms in sheep at each location between the...

Are these nemo or something else?

January began settled and cloudy with mild weather for most of the month except for a cold, wet period towards the end of the month. Consequently, the provisional UK mean temperature in January was 5.6oC, which is 2.0oC above the long-term national average (1981-2010). Regionally temperatures...

Weather report Figure 1: Temperature and rainfall by region for previous months. December 2019 started with some periods of heavy rainfall, but became drier towards the end of the month. The month was also much warmer than usual, with fewer frosts than expected at this time of year. The...

Did anyone here go to that? What were your thoughts? I thought there were a couple of "elephants in the room", one of which was definitely genetics...…. I was, however, very pleased at the time spent on sheep things - everyone loves cattle and sheep don't normally get a look in.

Sheep farm, 4 working dogs. What’s the best/most cost effective way of worming the dogs and how regurlar should they be done? 6-10 farm cats you can’t get anyway near, is there anyway of worming these - they do get food every night but they all eat from the same bowls so quantity would be sporadic?

New one for me today ,I had the local market ring up and say that a lamb I'd sold mid week had been rejected by the abattoir due to tape worm infection and I wouldn't be getting paid for it!? These weren't crap lambs they made top price although I know there are no visual signs of a tape worm...

I am currently working on a research project run jointly between IBERS at Aberystwyth University and Hybu Cig Cymru (Meat Promotions Wales), where I am looking into alternative ways of controlling worms in sheep as anthelmintic resistance is becoming an increasing problem. As a part of this...

Am I right in saying this has been discontinued? is the are an alternative out there containing praziquantel that is safe for use in sheep?