Volume 33 – 2009 Proceedings

Autumn Meeting 2009, Pitlochry

• Ovine mastitis: an overview of the disease and its control – G.C. Fthenakis and V.S. Mavrogianni
• Sheep practice in Tayside – farmers’ concerns regarding sustainable sheep production – I. Gill
• The concept of sustainably competitive agriculture: organic cattle and sheep production – L. Downey and G. Purvis
• Principles of organic production: costs and returns – D. Gray
• An update of tick-borne diseases – S. Stuen
• Organic production regulations – K.A. Ellis
• Controlling ectoparasites in organic sheep flocks – P. Bates
• Ticks: the use of sheep to prepare safe ground for grouse – I. Gill
• Health planning for organic lamb production: route vaccination – C. Lewis
• Prevention of lameness in sheep – A. Ridler
• Can sheep primed with one inactivated bluetongue virus serotype 8 vaccine be boostered with another? – D.J. Bartram, L. Heasman, C.A. Batten, C.A.L. Oura, J. Plana-Duran, H.M. Yuen and A.D.M. Wylie
• Sustainable worm control: the need for change – D.J. Wilson
• Reducing selection for anthelmintic resistance in roundworms: the importance of refuge – L. Stubbings
• Fasciolosis in sheep: a major challenge to the sheep industry – G.B.B. Mitchell
• Management of anthelmintic resistance: targeted selective treatments – F. Kenyon
• Alternative to anthelmintics for the management of helminth parasites – J. Houdijk
• Rearing pet (orphan) lambs – K. Dun
• Escherichia fergusonii in sheep in the Scottish Highlands: prevalence and potential pathogenicity factors – K. Voigt, J. Evans, I. MacArthur and G. Foster
• Characterostics of UK flocks affected by Steptococcus dysgalactiae polyarthritis – S.J. Rutherford
• The sustainability of hill sheep flocks in England – R. Thompson