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Controlling External Parasites
Solution name: Controlling external parasites Aim: To present best practise for controlling external parasitesDescription: The main external parasites are flystrike ticks lice (biting and sucking) scab External parasites can have negative impact on animal - health,...
Development of ewes that lambed young
Solution name: Development of ewes that lambed young Aim: The aim is to have less difficult lambing as possible and the replacement can grow up her lamb.Description: Because of bad feeding or early breeding date the weak female lambs could be in gestation. Topic:...
Replacement nutrition requirement for first lactation
Solution name: Replacement nutrition requirement for first lactation Aim: Our goal is to raise well-developed young lamb and to keep the number of days between the first and second lambing to a minimum.Description: The feeding of the young lamb is largely determined...
Grazing techniques
Solution name: Grazing techniques Aim: Find solution for sheep farms who based on grazing for those periods when the natural grassland is so poor (mainly summer period)Description: In dry climate: Enough yield and enough of good quality grass are available seasonally...
Forage crop production instead of grazing
Solution name: Forage crop production instead of grazing Aim: Ensure fluently high quality forage for all aged sheep in your flock. If possible produce forage crops on arable land instead of grazing on pour pastureDescription: In dry climate good quality grass and...
Managing gastrointestinal parasite infection
Solution name: Gastrointestinal parasite infection Aim: Decreasing the optimal life circumstance of worms and larves to avoid the critical infectionDescription: All around the world the internal parasites cause one of the biggest health issue that can cause economical...
Lameness
Solution name: Lameness Aim: The aim is not to have lame lambs.Description: The lamb is under its mother and after weaning in the fattening house.Topic: Health Production: Dairy / Meat Animal Category: Ewes/Lamb/Replacements Issue: Lameness Level of...
Respiratory issues of lambs
Solution name: Respiratory issues of lambs Aim: Reduce of lamb mortality and permanent damage of lungsDescription: One of most common problems of indoor fattening lambs with sudden high temperature, hard breathing and drooling is respiratory pasteurellosis. It can be...
Lambs with joint ill
Solution name: Lambs with joint ill Aim: Avoid the skeletal and joint disordersDescription: In Hungary, it causes higher losses mainly in lamb rearing. It develops through an open wound formed during an umbilical cord infection and possible tail shortening. Infection...
Withdrawal dates aide-memoire
Title: Withdrawal dates aide-memoire Need/issue: Shed Management Introduction: It is important to know the withdrawal dates of health products and the withdrawal period, to make sure animals sent to abattoirs are outwith that period. We use a laminated sheet in the...
Identifying trained hoggs for feeding
Title: Identifying trained hoggs for feeding Need/issue: Weaning transition management/post-weaning management: adaptation to new feeding regime Introduction: Naïve replacements which spent most of their live grazing need to be trained to eat concentrates feeds or...
Super Crook
Title: Super Crook Need/issue: When needing to treat an ewe with lameness or to check for mastitis, it is important to catch the relevant animal whilst in the field. Introduction: The super crook is a long pole with a grabbing hook at the end, allowing the farmer to...
Hand-made dosing gun holster
Title: Hand-made dosing gun holster Need/issue: Shed Management Introduction: We use the cut-off top of a bottle, that can be fixed on the side of the conveyor/handling system, as a holster for the dosing gun. Country: United Kingdom Dairy or/and meat sheep:...
Health products dosages aide-memoire
Title: Health products dosages aide-memoire Need/issue: It is important to know the amount required and dosage of the different health products for your animals. Introduction: Writing the dosage in big letters on the bottle of product, next to the handling race/dosing...
Mastitis prevention
Solution name: Mastitis prevention Aim: prevention of mastitis (udder health) detection of inflammation in early stage and treat it decrease predisposing factors increase efficiency of treatments Description: Mastitis has several negative impacts on milk production...
Lambing management
Solution name: Lambing management Aim: Increasing production efficiency and profitability, decreasing lamb mortality, meeting marketing needs – seasonality and fattening our lambs for heavier weight, human resources reduction.Description: Although the Hungarian sheep...
Methods to calculate vitamin and mineral content of feeds and pastures
Solution name: Methods to calculate vitamin and mineral content of feeds and pastures Aim: Calculate vitamin and mineral content of feeds and pastures to meet ewes requirement.Description: Ewes need a balanced diet containing energy (fat and carbohydrates), protein,...
Online history of grazing routes to remember and improve grazing routes in the next year
Solution name: Online history of grazing routes to remember and improve grazing routes in the next year Aim: Improve grazing routes, remember points of interest in the grazing routes, remember best grazing grounds for next year, cooperate with other farmers grazing in...
Control of Ovine Progressive Pneumonia (Maedi Visna) at farm level
Solution name: Control of Ovine Progressive Pneumonia (Maedi Visna) at farm level Aim: Our aim is to give clear instructions for the control of Maedi Visna in farms, which can be applied in practice and have been tested in the flocks of ELGO-DIMITRA.Description: Ovine...
Prevention strategies against Contagious agalactia
Solution name: Prevention strategies against Contagious agalactia Aim: Hereafter we propose the basic steps for preventing sheep against Contagious agalactia.Description: Infections of sheep with species of genus Mycoplasma may cause disease called Contagious...
Prevention strategies against Clostridial diseases
Solution name: Prevention strategies against Clostridial diseases Aim: Hereafter we propose the basic steps for preventing sheep against Clostridial diseasesDescription: The bacterial species of genus Clostridium are anaerobic microorganisms that might be present in...
Prevention of lamb diseases through proper new-born management
Solution name:Prevention of lamb diseases through proper new-born management Aim:To give the appropriate instructions for the care and management of lambs immediately after birth, in order to lay the foundations for the protection against specific diseases and the...
Detailed data keeping for health management to organise farms’ health plan / Use of smartphone or/and computer applications to get reminders
Solution name: Detailed data keeping for health management to organise farms’ health plan / Use of smartphone or/and computer applications to get reminders Aim: Improve health management of the flock. Prevent health problems and misuse of medicines.Description:...
Parasitism management in grazing animals
Solution name:Parasitism management in grazing animals Aim: Management measures to interrupt the cycle of infection of grazing animals through life forms of the parasites excreted by parasitized animals and hosted on the vegetation.Description: Parasitism by internal...
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