Know How / Sheep

Whether you run a sheep flock that numbers in the dozens or the thousands, keeping your rams, ewes and lambs healthy and productive is the key to achieving maximum production.

Regardless of your sheep breed, location or system, these pages give you the important health, welfare, nutrition and genetic advice to help make your flock profitable and sustainable.

Key focus areas:

Breeding to suit your system
Grassland management and nutrition
Improving flock health
Finishing lambs to suit market requirements
Reducing your cost of production

Latest Know How

HEALTH AND WELFARE

Amber blowfly warning as warm weather triggers season

Sheep farmers are advised to start checking for signs of blowfly strike and plan treatment for the blowfly season. An amber warning has been put in place across southern England…

SHEEP

Advice on developing a worm control plan for sheep

Having a worm control plan is often overlooked, but with anthelmintics resistance on the rise and becoming a real threat to lamb production, it is a fundamental tool for achieving…

HEALTH AND WELFARE

Tips on taking milk samples to find cause of ewe mastitis

Keeping a couple of clean test pots – together with some disposable gloves and disinfectant wipes – in the lambing kit makes it quicker and cleaner to sample ewes with…

ENVIRONMENT

Analysis: What future for sheep farming in the uplands?

Sheep farmers can be forgiven for feeling they are being demonised. Week in, week out, there seems to be some new report or TV programme suggesting that sheep are a…

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