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

• National Sheep Association
• British Goat Society

 

Professional Veterinary Associations

• Sheep Veterinary Society

 

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

• Quality Meat Scotland (QMS)
• Red Tractor Assurance

 

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