Volume 48 – 2025 Proceedings

Spring Meeting 2025, Online conference

• Breed for CH4nge project and how sheep health and efficiency have a big part to play – Kate Philips, Independent Sheep Consultant
• Opportunities to breed more resistant sheep to disease – Joanne Conington, SRUC
• Bluetongue and schmallenberg – an update from APHA – Rudolf Reichel, APHA Small Ruminant Expert Group
• Oversea representative – René van den Brom, GD Animal Health
• Practitioner experience in the restricted zone – Will Stevenson, Three Rivers and Chapelfield Farm Vets
• Small ruminants’ neurological diseases: a practical approach – Professor Antonio D’Angelo, University of Turin, Italy

To review the recordings: https://sheepvetsoc.org.uk/knowledge-hub/svs-spring-virtual-conference-may-2025/

Autumn Meeting 2025, Llandrindod Wells

• Sheep Nutrition – for new or recent graduates (or a refresher for anyone) – Kate Phillips and Nerys Wright
• National Sheep Association Industry Update – Phil Stocker
• One Health approach to understanding risks and management of ticks and tick-borne diseases in upland sheep flocks
  – Laura Mackenzie, Mark Greener, Sarah Hayes, Sarah Biddlecomb, Kayleigh Hansford, Festus Asaaga, Jonathan Rushton, Mara Rocchi, Nick Johnson, Jolyon Medlock and Caroline Millins
• A new generation vaccine against louping ill with a novel route to commercialisation – David J. Griffiths, Beth Wells, Jo Moore, Michelle McNab, Kayleigh Allen, Eleanor Laming, Clare Underwood, Charlotte Burgess and Mara Rocchi
  The Tick dashboard – Rebecca Mearns
  The changing epidemiology of Haemonchosis in the UK – Rob Kelly
• Mapping the discrepancy between farmer perception of liver fluke infection risk areas and actual G. truncatula habitats – Rhys Aled Jones, Gwen Rees, Chelsea Davis, Serian Evans, Chris Smith, Russ Morphew, Manod Williams and Hefin Williams
• Developing tools for future fluke control – Dr Russ Morphew
• A case of rumen fluke and other interesting findings! – Lucy Sullivan
• Fluke cases from the postmortem room! – Claire Jones
• Hydatid disease: A re-emergent disease in the UK? – Marisol Collins
• Surveillance – BTV update – Rudolf Reichel
• Antibiotic Stewardship Roadmap Panel session involving key Welsh stakeholders – Fiona Lovatt, Kristen Reyher, Gwen Rees, Ifan Lloyd and Liz Jones
• A case of Chondrodysplasia – reaching the diagnosis rather than in the condition – Harriet Fuller
• Ram MOT’s and inspections for sale – Managing expectations – Wendy Phillips
• Use of serum total protein as a proxy for passive transfer status in lambs –
• IP Glucose – a skill development project for Welsh farmers – Dr Lindsay Heasman and Leighanne Jones
• Does participation in a training workshop with classroom and practical element improve operator accuracy in diagnosis of Ovine Pulmonary Adenomatosis from video images of trans thoracic ultrasound scans? – Kate Hovers
• Sheep and Goats in Tanzania: Farming Practices, Health Challenges, and Opportunities – Paul Samson Buyugu
• The use of Enferplex multi-ELISA at Wales Veterinary Science Centre (WVSC) to investigate Iceberg diseases in Welsh flocks – Claire Jones
• Clinical project: A thin ewe investigation project on a group of Welsh commercial sheep farms – Phillipa Page, Claire Jones, Lucy Sullivan, Kitty Robinson and Fiona Lovatt
• Orf update: what’s happening on sheep farms currently? – Beth Reilly, David Charles and James Patrick Crilly
  A new approach to the management of orf in sheep flocks – Emily Wingate Collins
• Liver la vida loca: Optimizing trace element management in sheep – an EIP project – Joseph Angell
• A novel aid to manage an emerging problem? Ulcerative Dermatitis and NoBACZ Ambugreen – Miranda McInnes
• An interesting case of Rabies in sheep and cattle from across the pond – Jon Higgins