Sheep and goats
Additional Guidance
Key Livestock Diseases
- Biosecurity checklist for key livestock diseases is a guide published by the Moredun Research Institute. They have also produced a poster that summarises the main points
Livestock Associations & Societies
Professional Veterinary Associations
Record Keeping Guidance
- The Scottish Government provide guidance on Livestock ID and Traceability for Sheep and Goats, including details of holding registers, identification and movement requirements
- ScotEID works closely with Scottish livestock sector & Scottish Government, holding a multispecies database which can track and trace all farmed animals within Scotland and across the border in real time
Assurance Schemes
Health Schemes
- Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) operates the Premium Sheep and Goat Health Schemes (PSGHS), membership provides testing and management to control Maedi Visna (MV) for sheep/Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis (CAE) for goats, Enzootic Abortion of Ewes (EAE) and Johne's Disease; a Scrapie Monitoring Scheme for export and Scrapie Genotyping for selective breeding
Antimicrobial Stewardship
- The Medicine Hub, industry-led and developed by AHDB, plans to address the lack of evidence of responsible use by collation of national-level data for dairy, beef and sheep farmers. Offering farm-to-fork support, it offers a safe, secure and independent central way to collate, report and compare antibiotic data from a variety of sources, including on-farm farm use and datasets from vets and processors. Their overview video provides information.
- Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance provides information about antibiotics & UK farming, including news, facts, statistics, science and reports, case studies and videos:
- Responsible use of Antimicrobials in Sheep Production
- Responsible use of Vaccines and Vaccination in Sheep Production
- Progress by Sector
Further Information
- Food Standards Scotland (FSS) produce specific guidance on Cleaner cattle and sheep