Volume 40 – 2016 Proceedings

Spring Meeting 2016, Skipton

• Antimicrobial resistance – J Duncan
• Antimicrobial use and resistance in sheep: what do we know? – Lucy Coyne
• A practical guide to antibiotic use in small ruminants – M. Groenevelt
• A quick overview of the Dutch regulations with regards to the use of antibiotics – M. Groenevelt
• Talking to sheep farmers about antibiotic usage – a view from general practice – H. Jones
• Post mortem examination in small ruminants – D. Harwood
• How to get the most from your diagnostic laboratory – R. Mearns
• The sheep industry in Craven – M. Thompson
• The use of colostrum supplements in lambs – M.J. Corke, l.R. Doster and R.M. Gunaratne
• Colostrum and the goat kid – K. Bazeley
• Anthelmintic study update – results of the recent WAARD project – E. Thomas
• An immunogenetic analysis of host resistance to nematode infection in sheep – M. Stear, C. Nakielny, N. Brady, C. Sotomaior and K. Fairlie-Clarke
• Anthelmintic use in goats – V. Busin
• Sheep economics and AHDB Stocktake benchmarking – C. Davis
• Key performance indicators for goat kids II – K. Bazeley
• Economics of small ruminant milk production – a practitioner’s perspective – Y. Alony-Gilboa
• Veterinary treatments for sheep and goats when kept together – G. Duncanson
• Sharing surveillance intelligence – L.A. Stringer and S.I. Robertson
• The British Wool Marketing Board – I. Buchanan
• An update on CODD in sheep – J. Angell, D. Grove-White and J. Duncan
• Collection and communication of inspection results – current status – F. Lovatt
• Lead poisoning in lambs – case study – D. Ross
• Cloudburst in goats – what we know – E. Gascoigne
• Bluetongue update – A. Carson
• The Cascade: now and in the future – L. Reynolds
• Motivating farmers, encouraging vets and getting lambs to grow – Fiona Lovatt

Autumn Meeting 2016, Newquay

• Sheep vaccines: their benefits, how they work, the different types and their limitations – G. Entrican
• What’s in the box? Taking care of vaccines – B. Girvan and P. Williams
• Vaccines not authorised for use in sheep – the responsibilities of vets – F. Lovatt
• Vaccine use in practice – I. Gill
• On-farm breeding for resistance to internal parasites: What’s the problem? – T. White
• APHA ruminant parasitology and surveillance of extensive livestock – S. Mitchell
• Lifecycle of liver fluke – J.P. Crilly
• Liver fluke diagnostics, monitoring and control – H. Stevenson
• Liver fluke surveillance farms – F. Hutchings and M. Colston
• Triclabendazole resistance: genetic markers and levels of resistance in the field – J. Hodgkinson
• Progress with vaccines against the liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica – K. Cwiklinski, H. Jewhurst and J.P. Dalton
• Lamb colostrum study – K. Hovers
• New ways to tackle the threat of worms: Development of vaccines – T. McNeilly
• Maedi visna in a commercial flock- a case report – L. Nabb and M. Glover
• Farmer adoption of welfare policies and practices – C.E. Milne and L.A. Paton
• SAC Consulting Veterinary Services: Ovine abortion data 2015 – H. Stevenson