Livestock
Forages and Feeds: Assessing Your Forage – Part 1
This video is the second in our winter feed planning series covering assessing your forage stocks and their quality, as well as what to do if you are short. Mary…
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Digital Dermatitis – Are you detecting it early enough?
A recent on-line meeting of the Stranraer Sustainable Dairy Group on lameness prevention welcomed vet Dr Sara Pederson to speak about digital dermatitis (DD): risk factors, control and treatment of…
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Forages and Feeds: Assessing Forage Stocks
This video is the first in our winter feed planning series covering assessing your forage stocks and their quality, as well as what to do if you are short Karen…
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Weaned calves looking great at Oakwood Mill
Giles Henry at Oakwood Mill, Scottish Borders Two days after weaning and the calves are looking settled and enjoying their fresh allocation of grass.
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Grazing Vlogs: Weaning management at Scholland farm
Jamie Leslie, Scholland Farm, Shetland Jamie uses QuietWean nose flaps to help ease the weaning stress. His calves average 300kg and the cows are averaging body condition score 4 –…
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Rotational Grazing: A Discussion
This year, four farmers from across Scotland have been documenting their experience using rotational grazing methods on video. You can follow the whole series on our YouTube channel here. For…
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Alternative Bedding
Bedding livestock on straw is common place on most farms in Scotland but straw is not the only option.
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Wet Straw
Recent wet weather in some parts has seen straw in field stacks soaked by rainwater, bales immersed in water and even straw bales washed away by flood water.
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Effective Fluke Control in Sheep: A conversation with Andrew Bailie
In this episode Hazel Laughton speaks with Andrew Baillie who farms at Carstairs Mains in Lanarkshire. Andrew shares his experience of suffering a substantial loss in productivity as a direct…
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Derelict to Productive
Patrick Laurie, Galloway based author of ‘Native’ speaks to Janette Sutherland in Skye about his book. They discuss his starting a farming business and Riggit Galloway herd. They discuss native…
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