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A focus on flock performance at breeding time

Tommy On September 25, 2020   /   Flock health   /   Leave a comment
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A focus on flock performance at breeding time   This week I did a webinar on sheep performance coming up to breeding with Rumenco and ACT. I focused on how I assess different risk areas in our flocks at this time of year. In the video below,

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Video: Chasing mineral status on our farms

Tommy On May 27, 2020   /   BEEF, DAIRY, Farm animal health blog, Flock health   /   Leave a comment
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Chasing mineral status on our farms Background When we look at the mineral status on farms there are often two distinct scenarios. The first is where we are investigating a mineral deficiency. The second approach is a more long term approach to monitoring minerals on the farm.

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#50in50 Video 50 Farming, people and leadership

Tommy On May 9, 2020   /   BEEF, DAIRY, Farm animal health blog, Flock health   /   Leave a comment
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That’s it with seven hours of videos and over 40k words I’m finished #50in50. All the content will be available on my website for people to look back on. Huge thanks to Nettex, Progiene, and Rumenco for their support in helping me put #50in50 together. I am

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#50in50 Video 48 Forty eight topics

Tommy On May 7, 2020   /   BEEF, DAIRY, Farm animal health blog, Flock health   /   Leave a comment
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Forty-eight topics Thanks to everyone for their suggestions around topics they wanted to be covered. I ran out of time but not topics. In today’s video, I did a quick summary of some topics I didn’t get to cover. In fact, since its video 48/50, I covered

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#50in50 Video 45 Learning lessons on hygiene and disease spread

Tommy On May 4, 2020   /   BEEF, DAIRY, Farm animal health blog, Flock health   /   Leave a comment
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One of my big life lessons has been that there can be lessons everywhere if we chose to open our eyes and ears. I like reading about different businesses and problem-solving in different sectors. It opens your mind to new ideas and new ways of thinking. Right

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#50in50 Video 43 Flock health planning

Tommy On May 2, 2020   /   Farm animal health blog, Flock health   /   Leave a comment
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Video 43 Flock health planning is essential Background Like so many others I have been advocating for flock health planning for many years now. Many farmers have engaged with this approach. We do however need more sheep farmers to look at adopting this approach. A health plan

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#50in50 Video 39 Roundworms and resistance in our flocks

Tommy On April 28, 2020   /   Farm animal health blog, Flock health   /   Leave a comment
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Video 39 Roundworms and resistance in sheep One of the big challenges in our flocks is parasites and dealing with worm resistance. Like every aspect of animal health we need to have a plan. First, we must understand some key principles Background The roundworms we commonly see

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#50in50 Video 36 Orf in lambs

Tommy On April 25, 2020   /   Farm animal health blog, Flock health   /   Leave a comment
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Video 36 Orf in lambs Orf is caused by a virus called the Parapox virus in sheep. It can be a nasty clinical disease that can spread rapidly through the flock. The symptoms are pustular swellings, growths around the mouth and muzzle in young lambs, It also

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#50in50 Video 35 Tackling antibiotic resistance now

Tommy On April 24, 2020   /   BEEF, DAIRY, Farm animal health blog, Flock health   /   Leave a comment
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Video 35 tackling antibiotic resistance This is a topic I have become very interested in. why? Because this will be one of the key issues for ruminant farming over the next decade. The big challenge and the driving factor behind the reduction of antibiotics is human health.

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#50in50 Video 31 Six health tips for optimising lamb performance

Tommy On April 20, 2020   /   Farm animal health blog, Flock health   /   Leave a comment
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Video 31 Six areas to focus on for lamb performance at pasture Background I have said before that with beef and sheep we are in the business of weight gain. We must do this while being mindful of any inputs. We need to maximize our lambing %

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