QUALITY Meat Scotland has a new social media video showing how Borders farmer, Charley Walker, has successfully introduced a clean grazing policy to reduce worm burden on Barnside Farm, near Duns.
Use of a clean grazing system (an approach originally devised by SRUC) allows Charley and his wife Andrea to get all their lambs finished and off-farm by November 1 with just a single anthelmintic treatment at weaning.
Other benefits include improvement in growth rates and reduced risk of the flock developing anthelmintic resistance.
QMS, along with AHDB Beef and Lamb and HCC has produced a new publication – ‘Worm Control in Sheep’ – which you can view online on the QMS website www.qmscotland.co.uk or email info@qmscotland.co.uk to request a free copy.
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