2009 Meetings

AUTUMN MEETING

14th - 16th September 2009

at

the Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry

Booking forms here

The Draft Scientific Programme is as follows:

Sustainable sheep production (principles of disease management)

MONDAY MORNING 14th September

SESSION	CPD course.
TIME	TITLE	ORGANISERS
9.00 am – 1.00 pm	Sheep milk production and mastitis in ewes	George Fthenakis and Vasia Mavrogianni

MONDAY AFTERNOON 14th September

SESSION	Background.
TIME	SUBJECT	SPEAKER
1.50 pm – 2.00 pm	President’s introduction. Objectives for the meeting.	Sam Mansley
2.00 pm – 2.20 pm	Sheep veterinary practice in the local area – farmers’ concerns about the concept of sustainable sheep production.	Ian Gill
2.20 pm – 3.10 pm	Concepts of sustainably competitive agriculture – organic sheep and cattle farming.	Prof. Liam Downey

3.10 – 3.40 pm          Coffee/tea break

SESSION	Economics of organic sheep production.
TIME	SUBJECT	SPEAKER
3.40 pm – 4.30 pm	Principles of organic production, costs and returns	Douglas Gray
4.30 pm – 5.00 pm	An update on tick borne diseases	Snorre Stuen

 

TUESDAY MORNING 15th September

8.30 am – 9.00 am   Bluetongue update fromChris Lewis

SESSION	Rules/guidelines and challenges for organic sheep farming.
TIME	SUBJECT	SPEAKER
9.00 am – 9.50 am	Organic rules – when is it acceptable to use conventional antimicrobials, parasiticides or vaccines, what are the alternatives and what are the consequences?	Helen Browning
9.50 am – 10.40 am	Welfare concerns and benefits associated with organic sheep farming.	Paul Roger

10.40 – 11.10 am     Coffee/tea break

SESSION	Health planning for organic sheep production.
TIME	SUBJECT	SPEAKER
11.10 am – 11.40 am	Sheep scab and other ectoparasites.	Peter Bates
11.40 am – 12.00 pm	Ticks (use of sheep to prepare safe ground for grouse).	Ian Gill
12.00 pm – 12.20 am	Routine vaccination.	Chris Lewis
12.20 am – 12.40 am	Lameness (principles of prevention rather than treatment).	Ann Ridler

TUESDAY AFTERNOON 15th September

SESSION	Farm visit
TIME	TITLE	ORGANISER
1.30 – 6.00 pm	SAC Hill Research Farm – Kirkton, Crianlarich (to include focus on the principles of disease management and engender discussion about the importance of environmental, welfare and economic sustainability).	Sam Mansley

WEDNESDAY MORNING 16th September

(8.30 am – 9.00 am              Bluetongue discussion if required)

SESSION	Principles of helminth management
TIME	TITLE	SPEAKER
9.00 am – 9.30 am	Introduction.  (Problems with traditional helminth control.  Reasons why new anthelmintic groups will not provide a sustainable solution.  Need for management control strategies.	Dave Wilson
9.30 am – 10.10 am	SCOPS principles.  (Acknowledgement of the need for anthelmintic drugs for sustainable, competitive sheep production.  Outline of the guidelines to reduce selection for anthelmintic resistance.  Focus on the concept of refugia.)	Lesley Stubbings
10.10 am -10.40 am	Trematodes and cestodes.  (Need for anthelmintics, principles of evasive management and forecasting.)	George Mitchell

 

10.40 – 11.00 am     Coffee/tea break

SESSION	Principles of helminth management
TIME	TITLE	SPEAKER
11.00 am – 11.30 am	Targeted selective treatments.  (Within the context of management, sustainability and competitive sheep production.)	Fiona Kenyon
11.30 am – 12.00 pm	Alternatives/adjuncts to anthelmintics for management of helminth parasites.  (Nutrition, bioactive forages, host resistance/resilience.)	Jos Houdijk

 

SESSION	Short papers
TIME	SUBJECT	SPEAKER
12.00 pm – 12.15 pm	Rearing pet (orphan) lambs.	Kath Dun
12.15 pm – 12.30 pm	Escherischia fergusonii.  (Project supported by SVS research grant).	Katja Voigt
12.30 pm – 12.45 pm	Joint ill in lambs	Sarah Rutherford
12.45 pm – 1.00 pm	Prospects for continued sheep production on the English hills and uplands	Dick Thompson
1.00 – 1.10	Presidents round-up -  sustainable and competitive sheep production	Sam Mansley