Volume 46 – 2023 Proceedings

Spring Meeting 2023, Online conference

• The ovine microbiome – How microbiome-derived knowledge may contribute to a better understanding of ovine health and production – Juan Miguel Rodriguez
• Clinical Club – Ovine Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis – A discussion of case based treatment options, new approaches  – Margit Groenevelt, Carina Helmer, UK practioner’s and Phillipa Page
• Panel Discussion – Animal Health and Welfare Schemes – What does future support look like! – Martin Jenkins, Phil Stocker, Jenny Purcell and Peter Howard

To review the recordings: https://sheepvetsoc.org.uk/knowledge-hub/svs-spring-virtual-conference-may-2023/

Autumn Meeting 2023, Glasgow

• Setting the scene: Scotland and Glasgow – George King
• Induction of immune responses by vaccine platform technologies – Gary Entrican
• Sheep vaccines: Developments and Future Solutions – Alasdair Nisbet
• Why category one sheep vaccines? – Fiona Lovatt
• Sustainable farming schemes – Scotland – Jenny Purcell
• National Govt. Health and Welfare support – Phil Stocker
• Breeding for worm resistance and new opportunities from genomics – Samuel Boon
• Variation in tolerance of worms among lambs and sires – Adam Hayward, Fiona Kenyon, Phoebe Beal, Lucy Giles and Tim Bebbington
• FEC Check app: Understanding sheep roundworm egg count results at a glance – Lynsey Melville and Eilidh Geddes
• Assessing the effect of refrigeration on gastrointestinal nematode species cultured from sheep faeces – Martha Betson, Bethany Harris, Madeleine Tytherleigh, Osama Zahid, Umer Chaudhry and Emma Borkowski
• Back to the future? Advances in control of gastrointestinal roundworms – JP Crilly
• Lymph node aplasia in Scottish Blackface sheep – Heather Stevenson
• Should ovine anaplasmosis be included in the differential diagnosis of wasting diseases of sheep? – Delia Lacasta
• Sheep associated malignant catarrhal fever (SA-MCF): a series of cases on three farms in the UK – Joseph William Angell, Eleanor G. Bentley, Hayley E. Crosby-Durrani, Rachel Hall and James P Stewart
• Survey of veterinary practices on antibiotic prescribing and administration in sheep flocks in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland – Kim Hamer, Catherine Fedor, Eilidh Corr, Dominic Mellor and Marie Kotzur
• Ovine Obstetrics: Clinical Audit Findings & EBVM Recommendations – David Charles
• The NI sheep scab programme. An initial report on activities – Paul Crawford, Adewale Adenuga , Aurélie Aubry, Sam Strain, Sharon Verner and Stewart Burgess
• The Welsh sheep scab initiative – Neil Paton
• Controlling sheep scab on the Western Isles of Lewis & Harris – Stewart Burgess
• Application of the ELISA and flock based interpretation for sheep scab – Fiona Lovatt and Rebecca Mearns