In Conversation With... Winter Stocktake – flock health and records
Description
Welcome to In Conversation With… hosted this month by Senior Sheep and Beef Consultant Kirsten Williams. On today’s episode Kirsten is joined by Willie Budge (Senior Consultant, SAC Consulting) and Kythe Mackenzie (Veterinary Investigation Officer, SRUC). They will discuss trends from the year, what’s coming into the labs, tips on preparing for sheep inspections and how to keep meaningful records. This show is produced in association with the Scottish Government.
Episode Timestamps
01.42 2024 health highlights – using them to plan for next year
04.14 Top tips for sheep inspections
08.20 Tagging records
14.00 Using records to review performance
15.19 What’s coming into the vet labs
21.16 Funded Animal Health and Welfare interventions (PSF)
24.00 Notifiable diseases and the risks to Scottish flocks
28.08 Biosecurity and quarantine
30.58 Nutrition, winter budgeting and housing
34.48 Kythe’s top tip for winter stocktake
35.58 Willie – Animal Health and Welfare Plan and benefits of up to date records
FAS Resources
Growing and finishing lambs in autumn and winter
Preparing for Sustainable Farming full guidance (Animal Health and Welfare Interventions)
Ice-berg Diseases in Sheep - Caseous Lymphadenitis (CLA) (youtube.com)
Ice-berg Diseases in Sheep - Maedi Visna (MV) (youtube.com)
Ice-berg Diseases in Sheep - Ovine Johnes Disease (OJD) (youtube.com)
Ice-berg Diseases in Sheep – Ovine Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma (OPA) (youtube.com)
Ice-berg Diseases in Sheep - Border Disease (BD) (youtube.com)
Iceberg Diseases In Sheep | Helping farmers in Scotland | Farm Advisory Service (fas.scot) Iceberg diseases of ewes | AHDB
Other Resources
Livestock identification and traceability guidance pages sheep and goats (gov.Scot)
Bluetongue Virus - RuminanHealth & Welfare
Iceberg diseases of ewes | AHDB
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