UK farmers are being assisted by MSD Animal Health to help them maximise output by optimising their flock performance.

Project L.A.M.B

Standard Wool is pleased to see another initiative – aside from the work of the British Wool Marketing Board – that is trying to help the wool industry.

Project L.A.M.B has been launched by MSD Animal Health to enhance the relationship between sheep farmers and their vet.

The project is focused on preventative healthcare and helping farmers keep their flock productivity high, whilst minimising the risk of loss.

“The continued focus on reducing the use of antibiotics in farmed livestock means it’s vital that the whole British sheep industry embraces active flock health planning.

“It’s undoubtedly the route to better flock productivity in a challenging lamb market, better animal health and improved farm efficiency,” Sean Riches from MSD Animal Health told farminguk.com.

Records

MSD Animal Health will use the sheep calendar to ensure seasonal and specific focus when it comes to assisting vet practises with timely and targeted communications for up-to-date information, with farmer meetings and with subsided diagnostic services.

“Good records are an essential part of benchmarking your flock’s performance and using them to measure and monitor farm targets should form the basis of all flock health plans.

“They allow good producers to measure where and why losses may have occurred,” said Sean Riches.

Flock performance

MSD Animal Health says that there are many examples of flocks that have improved productivity thanks to their on-going partnership with their vet.

Project L.A.M.B. brings together MSD Animal Health’s sheep disease diagnostic services – EXPERTIS™ FlockCheck and Barren EweCheck for infectious abortion and barrenness causes – alongside its leading range of sheep vaccines.

“Project L.A.M.B. enables vets to access a simple tool that helps review flock performance with their sheep farmer clients,” he says.

“In these situations spending money on preventative healthcare is, more often than not, better than on medicines to treat a disease.

“It also potentially leads to reduced time for gathering and handling the sheep, resulting in less stress all around.”

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