Sheep Services

Sheep service list

 

 

 

As well as the usual medical, surgical and obstetrical services (e.g. diagnosis and treatment of sick sheep, lambings, caesareans), we offer the following:

Pregnant ewes & lambing time

• Metabolic profiling (pregnant ewes)
• Housing and feeding assessment
• Lamb mortality reviews

Parasite control

• Faecal worm egg counts
• Fluke egg counts
• Parasite control plans (inc. worms, fluke, sheep scab, fly-strike, lice etc.)
• Testing for anthelmintic (wormer & flukicide) resistance

Sheep reproduction

• Ram breeding soundness examinations
• Ram vasectomy (teaser production)
• Breeding season advancement and synchronisation
• Investigation of poor reproductive performance
• Abortion control advice

Disease diagnosis & control

• Ill-thrift/poor growth rate investigations
• On-farm post-mortem
• Vaccination protocols
• Quarantine protocols
• Lameness control plans

General services

• Flock health plans