Europe-wide project identifies 100 solutions to sheep health issues
Lamb
Hungary
Turkiye
Published Jun 6, 2023
Tridge summary
A three-year project spanning eight European countries including the UK has identified nearly 100 solutions to farmers’ sheep health and nutrition needs.
Original content
Eurosheep, a knowledge sharing project which started in 2020, aims to enhance the viability of sheep farms by improving their technical performance. The consortium found 61 common needs relating to sheep health and nutrition across the partner countries of Ireland, UK, Spain, France, Italy, Hungary, Greece and Turkey. The project, funded by EU Horizon 2020, identified 96 solutions - 47 on health and 49 on nutrition - and 52 tips and tricks relating to these needs. These included practical information on Iceberg diseases and good management for fattening lambs and guidelines on foot-bathing. It also included the use of tools to measure the energy and nutritional value of forages or feed, and for farmers to record grazing activities. The project conducted 53 cost benefits on selected solutions and created 26 factsheets when the solutions did not answer the needs. Dr Claire Morgan-Davies, a livestock systems scientist at SRUC, said the project had been an "incredible" source of ...
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