Description
The following webinar provides an opportunity for you to run through the farmer presentations on lameness that should be used on the focus farms. The 19 sheep focus farms are part of a wider Cattle and Sheep Health and Welfare project being managed by AHDB/EBLEX supported through the RDPE Skills Framework and funded by Defra and the EU. Each farm will run 2/3 meetings over the next year to look at issues on each farm. Lameness has been highlighted as a priority by Defra for the project and as such the lameness slides should be presented at the first meetings alongside other topics specific to that farm.
Fiona Lovatt will run through the slides, and take questions on both structure and technical content, the aim being that we have a consistent message being delivered across all 19 farms. The content of the slides has been prepared by Prof Laura Green of Warwick University, Dr Fiona Lovatt BVSc MRCVS Flock Health Ltd and Ruth Clements BVM&S MRCVS FAI Farms Ltd as well as input from the 4 project subcontractors Duchy, SAC, Westpoint and ADAS. We hope they provide up to date thinking and materials to help support the events.
Fiona Lovatt graduated from Bristol University in 1995 and worked as a farm vet in first opinion veterinary practice in Teesdale until 2012. In 2012, Fiona became a Diplomate of the European College of Small Ruminant Health Management and was also awarded a RCVS Diploma in Sheep Health and Production by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Fiona is currently President of the Sheep Veterinary Society. She runs a sheep veterinary consultancy business, Flock Health Ltd and is a part time clinical associate professor in Sheep Production Medicine at the University of Nottingham. She is involved with the sheep industry through all stages of the supply chain, working with sheep farmers, sheep vets, processors and retailers. She regularly runs sheep veterinary CPD courses and is particularly keen to encourage sheep farmers to engage in active flock health planning in conjunction with their local veterinary surgeon.