Volume 45 – 2022 Proceedings

Spring Meeting 2022, Belfast

• Challenges and Opportunities for Pasture based Sheep Production – Tommy Boland
• Sheep scab in Northern Ireland – Paul Crawford
• For Flock’s Sake – an RDPE-funded sheep scab control programme in three hotspot areas of England – where are we now? – Burgess, STG¹; Makepeace, C²; Nixon, E²; Stubbings, L³. Wall, R²
• Farm Vet Champions – Update and SMART goal tool – Fiona Lovatt
• Reducing prophylactic antibiotic use in neonatal lambs – A case review by a farm vet champion – Stephanie Winslow
• ‘Back to the Future’ – a historic perspective on liver fluke control – Philip Skuce
• Liver Fluke and Rumen Fluke – Prevalence, Co-Infection and Management – Grace Mulcahy
• Descriptive analysis of ovine mortality in sentinel sheep flocks in Ireland – Gerard M Murray¹,  Seamus Fagan², Denise Murphy²,  John Fagan ²,  Colm Ó Muireagáin¹, Rebecca Froehlich-Kelly¹,  Damien J Barrett¹, Maresa Sheehan³, Margaret Wilson³,  Colm Philip Brady ³, Frank Hynes⁴ ,  Shauna Farrell⁵ ,  John Moriarty⁶,   Rónan O Neill⁷,   Mícheál Casey⁸
•  Liver fluke – the future of vaccines – John Pius Dalton
• Breeding for improved sheep health through the Irish national breeding indexes – Nóirín McHugh¹ and Kevin McDermott²
• Prevalence of Pestiviruses in Sheep flocks in Northern Ireland – Sam Strain¹, Emma Campbell²
• Damara, a New Breed of Sheep for the UK – Patricia Sutton
• Nothing to lose: two interesting surgical cases – JP Crilly
• Abomasal Ultrasound as a Measure of Lamb Colostrum Intake: The Impact of Ewe and Lamb Factors on Colostrum Intake and Failure of Passive Transfer – Hannah Edgar, RVC BVetMed Undergraduate Student, Supervised By James Patrick Crilly
• How to practically implement TST at farm level – Nick Cotter
• Test before you treat – the key to sustainable control of liver fluke in sheep and cattle – Diana Williams
• Mental Health Awareness in Agriculture – Peter Hynes

Autumn Meeting 2022, Penrith

• Roundworm identification – from the old to the new – David J. Bartley
• Update on RDPE-funded For Flock’s Sake – Sheep scab project – Northern Cluster – Karen Swindlehurst
• Integrating mobile dipping into practice portfolio – Emily Gascoigne
• APHA Surveillance update – Amanda Carson
• Transthoracic Ultrasound Scanning (TTUS) is not an approximate screening test for Ovine Pulmonary Adenomatosis: Results of epidemiology and economic analysis – Dr Peers Davies and Mr Ben Strugnell
• Aggressive culling to control OPA – Phillipa Page
• Farmer experience with OPA scanning in a large flock – Alastair MacArthur
• Development of a novel blood-based diagnostic test for Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma based on Epitope Detection in Monocytes (EDIM) – Yolanda Corripio-Miyar, Tom N. McNeilly, David J. Griffiths and Christina Cousens
• The Lancashire Police Rural Crime Task Force Sheep Worrying Initiative – Judith Charnley and Lorraine Elwood
• Consumer attitudes towards the welfare of farmed animals – Susie Stannard
• Manual blunt-force trauma (BFT) versus mechanical BFT – Charles W Mason
•  British sheep farming industry update – Phil Stocker
• ClipFitter: A more humane method to castrate and tail dock lambs – Joyce Kent
• Numnuts® – Pain Relief for Lamb Tail Docking & Castration – Robin Smith
• Case Study into Causes of Neonatal Lamb Mortality in an Outdoor Lambing UK Lowland Sheep Flock – Suzie Chapple
• Flock health Checklist – Kat Baxter-Smith, Jonathan Hobbs, Claire Jones, Giselle Brown, JP Crilly and John Hemingway
• Wern vets ram vasectomy clinical audit 2018-2021 – Emma Sayle and Joseph Angel
• Implementation of a control programme to eradicate Border Disease virus from a large commercial flock – 4 years of results – Harriet Fuller
• Career pathways and European College – Valentina Busin
• IgA and EBV and ram selection – George Cullimore
• The prevalence of, and risk factors associated with, failure of passive transfer in sheep flocks in the south of England – Anna Hardcastle
• Smart sheep: Reducing reliance on wormers using lamb performance to optimise treatments – Fiona Kenyon¹, Colin MacPhail², Claire Morgan-Davies³, Gavin Coates⁴, Lesley Stubbings⁵, David Owen², Linda Owen², Jade Duncan¹, Gillian Mitchell¹, Matt Colston⁶, Alison