Webinars and Meetings
Marches Farm Vets offer a number of different educational services to support their clients in gaining
practical skills, better understanding of new trends in animal health and welfare, improving knowledge to improve efficiencies.
We have worked with APHA, Blyth Livestock Advisory Services and Precision grazing in partnership to ensure you are getting the best up to date advice.
For upcoming educational events such as webinars, on-farm tours and small group tutorials, please see our Educational Events page
Events we have held so far…
Body Condition Scoring Ewes and Nutrition before lambing Webinar:
At this free to join webinar we discussed body condition scoring ewes and how it is a simple and effective management tool for all flock owners to use to evaluate the body reserves of adult sheep. It is particularly useful for better regulation of ewe nutrition for easier lambing.
Pre-Lambing Webinar:
Richard presented this free to join webinar before the tough lambing period to help farmers prepare and make them aware of diseases to look out for, practices they should be implementing to ensure the ewes keep condition and management tips to help the stressful time run smoother.
Practical Lambing Meeting:
We held a Lambing meeting where Emily gave a very interesting presentation on housing, stages of labour and general tips during lambing.
Vet Tech Lydia gave a demonstration of good Vs bad quality colostrum using the refractometers (these show you the protein levels in the milk.
Richard ensured everyone knew the normal presentation of the lamb and what to do if the lamb is in a difficult position using the lambing simulator.
Quarantine and sheep abortion:
Emily held this webinar to discuss flock quarantine policies and infectious abortion in sheep.
The webinar was free to attend.
This meeting was supported by both Elanco and MSD
The meeting covered:
Disease risks to consider
Quarantine treatments and policies
Infectious causes of sheep abortion
How to reduce the risk to your flock
When to investigate.
Farmers in England are being urged to consult their vet about vaccinating their herd or flock against Bluetongue serotype 3 (BTV-3) as part of the #BattleBluetongue campaign being launched across the ruminant industry by @TheAHDB & @RuminantHW
Bluetongue Vaccination Webinar:
This webinar on was one of our best turnouts to date, it was held to get a discussion going with our clients about Bluetongue vaccination. On such a scary and daunting topic for all farmers and small holders alike, we have had great feedback and interest in the vaccine we have recommended that we feel would best suit the majority of our clients. However there are other options available if this particular vaccine doesn’t suit your management system. Please get in touch with us to get advice from a vet.
#BattleBluetongue Campaign launched
Weaning, Parasite and Pasture Meeting:
We invited you to a join us at our free workshop to review the impacts of Schmallenberg and lengthy wet winter and spring on ewes, lambs and pasture as it has been keenly felt this year.
At the meeting we discussed; weaning decisions based on ewe body condition score, lamb growth rates and pasture availability, setting up a grazing rotation for lambs for high performance, known and emerging parasitic disease and the sustainable control of parasites.
We were joined by three speakers:
-Emily Postlethwaite (Marches Farm Vets)
-Matthew Blyth (Blyth Livestock Advisory Services)
-Sarah Morgan (Precision Grazing)
Lamb Disease Prevention and Control webinar:
We hosted this webinar with the focus on lamb disease prevention and control, with a special guest from Forte Healthcare to talk about the new watery mouth product, Arkguard. In this webinar we spoke about problems experienced with ewes and lambs at lambing time, how to recognise them and how to prevent them. It was Bella’s first webinar but she did great job and we had one of our biggest audiences we’ve had so far!
Sheep Spectacular Meeting
We had an amazing turn out at our Sheep Spectacular meeting held at The Salwey Arms. It was such a pleasure seeing old and new faces and being able have very important discussions with a lot of you.
Emily kicked off the meeting opening with a fab presentation of introduce Marches Farm Vets and preparing the ewe for lambing. Bella the stepped in and gave a very informative talk on housing, management and hygiene during lambing time. She did such an amazing job in front of a big crowd and we couldn’t be prouder of her!
We then had a short break for some lovely pork baps and chips. Sam from Forte health was up next after food presenting a product call Arkguard for watery mouth. We do stock this product and have had great feed back from our clients that have used the product. Finally, Rachel from Nobacz presented their navel spray and Ambugreen gel products. Nobacz have some great case studies behind them to support their products and again we have had very positive feed back from clients that have used the navel spray.
Richard bought the evening to a close with a special thank you to the three the Salwey Arms for being so accommodating and the three rep companies that sponsored the event.
