Publications

The lambing period can be extremely labour intensive. In this video we provide some simple, low cost tips to ‘tweak’ the system to reduce labour and now is the time…

Meat is the primary product for the majority of sheep farmers and crofters, however not everyone breeds and keeps sheep for meat. In this webinar, we hear from a panel…

In this webinar, Sean Cursiter of Laga Farm will discuss how they have set up a new flock dedicated to outdoor lambing and how they have developed the system to…

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…

Daniel Stout speaks with Professor Laura Green OBE and Poppy Frater about the latest research on mastitis, the pathogens involved and how we can refine management and nutrition in sheep…

Sheep Records Made Simple and Top Tips For Tagging. Join us for this session on the simplest way to keep sheep records and understand sheep tagging rules. There will be…

In this livestock podcast, Agricultural Consultant Robert Ramsay speaks to SAC Consulting sheep specialist Poppy Frater and to SRUC Veterinary Investigation Officer Heather Stevenson.  The podcast covers, among other things,…

Agricultural Consultant Daniel Stout speaks with Professor Laura Green OBE about how best to get on top of footrot and reduce lameness in the flock. Laura has been involved in…

The aim of any winter-feeding system is to fill the winter feed deficit and be as low cost as possible, whilst meeting the nutritional requirements of the pregnant ewe to…

Halal consumers eat more meat per capita than the remainder of the population and despite accounting for just 5% of the English population consume approximately 20% of all lamb produced…