FlockMaster - Top tips for good growth and lamb survival
Date: 20th May 2025
Time: 10.00 - 17.00
Location: Royal Veterinary College, Boltons Park Farm, Hertfordshire
Top tips for good growth and lamb survival - Tuesday 20th May 2025
The aim of the fourth and final session in this series is to equip sheep keepers with knowledge and skills to ensure growth rates and lamb survival is maximised to get the best out of their lambs, both for replacement and selling.
Key areas:
- Lamb growth rates - targets, common causes of poor growth rates
- Trace element deficiencies - detection and correction
- Sustainable worm control - how do worms cause disease, understanding the worm lifecycle and epidemiology, detecting infection, playing the GAME, TSTs (growth rate & FAMACHA scoring), avoidance strategies, preventing anthelmintic resistance.
- Selecting sheep for slaughter - where are you going to sell your lambs?, identifying lambs that are ready for slaughter, minimising carcase condemnations
- Iceberg diseases - detection and control
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