Sheep Medicine & Flock Health Plans
Many of you will already have plans in place due to assurance schemes. Achieving top performance from your sheep, both for commercial producers and pedigree breeders is essential to maintaining a profitable flock.
A well-fed, well-managed flock with good health security goes a long way towards achieving good profitability.
While it is possible for you to write a plan yourself, we believe it is cost effective to use us to draw up the plan for you. We will visit the flock and discuss all health matters, covering issues such as worming policy, external parasite control and nutrition.
Basic requirements to aid in the production of a successful plan are:
- Records such as scanning percentage to lambs sold, stage of lamb losses.
- A concise assessment of recent problems e.g. parasites or fluke
- And a clear set of achievable objectives e.g. are the lambs targeted at a certain market, do ewe numbers need to be increased or decreased?
At the end of the visit, we will produce a health plan that gives protocols for all the areas of importance to your flock, for instance lamb care, lameness, medicine use and biosecurity.
Remember each individual flock requires a plan that is specific to itself. Plans must be updated at least annually to take account of disease threats identified during the last twelve months e.g. Bluetongue in 2007.
Please contact us on 01772 861300 if you would like us to help you to develop a plan for your sheep.