South East Branch

Health & Welfare

Bluetongue

The Intervet web page on Bluetongue and the vaccine now available

The Defra webpage on Bluetongue Publications and Fact Sheets

The NADIS Bulletin on Bluetongue, with pictures showing the symptoms caused by the disease. [Adobe Acrobat is required]

Institute of Animal Health page on Bluetongue

Page on Bluetongue in Wikipedia

An index on sheep diseases can be seen at http://www.organic-vet.reading.ac.uk/Sheepweb/miscel/Default.htm

NADIS Sheep Health Bulletins can be downloaded at http://www.nadis.org.uk/Diseases_Sheep.html

SCOPS is an industry led initiative - Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep - and is directed by a steering committee chaired by the National Sheep Association. The NSA webpage on it is http://www.nationalsheep.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=287&Itemid=68

For a veterinary article on Guidelines for Trying to Reduce Resistance to Worms, click here
Eblex Lamb Briefing - Prioritise Breeding for Worm Resistance
Eblex Lamb Briefing - Control Worm Build-up with Careful Management

For the Eblex Lamb & Stock Briefings click here

For the Nadis (National Animal Disease Information Service) website, click here
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin, March 2010 - Lambing - the Basics, click here
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin, March 2010 - Ensuring Survival of Newborn Lambs, click here
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin, January 2010 - Ewe Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, click here [Adobe Reader is required]
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin, May 2009 - Mastitis in Ewes, click here [Adobe Reader is required]
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin, April 2009 - Sheep Scanning and Weaning, click here [Adobe Reader is required]
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin, November 2008 - High Involuntary Culling Rates in Adult Sheep, click here [Adobe Reader is required]
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin on Scald & Footrot, May 2008, click here [Adobe Reader is required]
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin Preparing for Lambing, click here
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin Flock Nutrition throughout pregnancy, click here
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin Lambing Problems, click here
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin on Infectious Abortion, click here [Adobe Reader is required]
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin on Nematodirosis, click here
For the Nadis Health Bulletin, March 2007, on Nematodirosis, click here [Adobe Reader is required]
For the Nadis Health Bulletin on Anthelmintic Resistance on Sheep Farms, click here [Adobe Reader is required]
For the Nadis Sheep Bulletin on Trace Element Deficiency, click here [Adobe Reader is required]

For the Nadis Parasite Forecast for April 2010, click here [Adobe Reader is required]

Eblex Stock Briefing - Managing Stock Heat Stress to Minimise Losses

Eblex Better Returns Programme Ewe Nutrition Manual [Adobe Reader is required]
Eblex Better Returns Programme 7: Target Lameness [Adobe Reader is required]
Eblex Better Returns Programme Breed a Better Pedigree Flock [Adobe Reader is required]

The Welfare of Sheep - Legislation/ Welfare Code/ Enforcement/ Advice for farmers. Page on the Defra website

Identification of Ovine and Caprine Animals (sheep and goats)
DEFRA puts EID into focus (a film can be viewed over the Internet)

For the DEFRA page on farm animal disease control click here
and for the page on health and welfare of animals click here

To read about the health problems that can be caused by feeding lambs on Rape and kale, click here

For information on scrapie, click on the Scrapie link in the left hand column

The Suffolk Sheep Sire Reference Scheme website - http://www.suffolksires.com/

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