Farmer Recruitment for ADAS Defra funded project

ADAS are looking for farmers that have welfare enhancements in place, are achieving good animal welfare and/or are part of a higher welfare or organic farm assurance scheme. In particular, they would like to speak to sheep farmers who are:

• Achieving low levels of lamb and/or ewe mortality
• Achieving low levels of lameness
• Achieving good body condition for ewes (low levels of thin ewes)
• Rearing uncastrated and/or non-docked lambs
• Providing prolonged pain relief for castration and/or tail docking (i.e. NSAID’s)

Project participants will need to fill out an online survey about their farming system and welfare enhancements. Once the survey is complete, a follow up call will be arranged with a researcher to discuss the costs and welfare benefits in more detail. Farmers will be paid £100 for taking part to compensate for their time. Farmers will need to provide welfare, performance and cost records and be willing to discuss their experience of implementing higher welfare enhancements.

If you or someone you know is achieving one or more of the above welfare enhancements, then please contact Hannah Baldwin.

Email: hannah.baldwin@adas.co.uk or call 07785 708545.

All data collected will remain strictly confidential and any farms that take part will not be identifiable in the results.