Rearing animals [SP.RA]
Improve your farming finances – Part 2 Workshop
In volatile times finding every £1 counts. ‘What gets measured gets managed’: how to find money in your business
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Improve your farming finances in 30 minutes
‘What gets measured gets managed’: how to find money in your business
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Nematodirus Hatching…….
The warm weather has been a welcome return for grass growth and conditions for outdoor lambing’s. However, this warmer weather has made conditions for Nematodirus battus hatching. Who favour a period of cold weather followed by a cumulative period of 7-10 days of temperatures over 11ºC. Nematodirus eggs on the pasture shed by lambs last year will have survived through winter and will hatch in the right conditions now.
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Providing Creep Feed to Lambs
This video looks at a makeshift, low budget, adaptable means at providing creep feed to lambs using items available on the croft. The benefit of the system demonstrate what can…
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Lamb Weighing: An Alternative Method
In small scale agriculture where expensive equipment isn’t viable or available, the use of unconventional methods can still be applied to achieve the same goal when on a budget. In…
Read More >Technical Note (TN743): Johne’s Disease In Cattle
Johne’s disease is an infectious wasting condition of cattle and other ruminants. This technical note outlines how to identify Johne’s disease in both dairy and beef herds and what steps to take to control it.
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Precision solutions to animal health & welfare: episode 2
Welcome along to our animal health & welfare series of eight podcasts. Each podcast will look at the latest research around animal health & welfare, with the aim of providing…
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Two’s Company Three Doesn’t Have To Be A Crowd
Do you have your scanning results, too many triplets, dreading feeding pet lambs? Considering breeding the hoggs or want to make a better job of it? Then this is webinar…
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Precision solutions to animal health & welfare: episode 1
Welcome along to our animal health & welfare series of podcasts. Over the course of 2021, we’ll be bringing you 8 podcasts, each falling under the theme of animal health…
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Stay Clean, Stay Safe
Most farmers will be aware that sheep and lambs can carry organisms which can be responsible for disease in humans. The specific threat to pregnant women from aborting sheep at lambing time is probably the most familiar issue. However, sheep can also carry organisms which could make anyone unwell, and it’s sensible to consider these risks as you go about your work.
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