Handy tips on fluke control set out in new industry guide
© Hajdar/Adobe Stock Graziers concerned about liver fluke in their sheep and cattle can learn more about the disease from a new, condensed guide offering the latest insights and best practice from leading industry experts.
Levy bodies have grouped together with animal health experts to produce a 24-page booklet. Designed to talk farmers through the whole lifecycle of the liver fluke, it has chapters on the mud snail – the intermediate host of the fluke – post-mortem advice, treatments and how to reduce the risk of infection.
See also: What is liver fluke and why is it such a problem?
Detailed case studies of five farms are included:
- Richard Carruthers, Rawfoot Farm, Cumbria
- Brian Walker, Carloonan Farm, Argyll
- GH Dean and Co, Sittingbourne, Kent
- Scye and Tom Southall, Spittal Mains, Caithness
- Colin Evans, Nant Moch, Black Mountain.
The guide is written by Dr Phillip Skuce of Moredun Research Institute, Professor Diana Williams of the University of Liverpool and independent sheep consultant Lesley Stubbings.
Read the liver fluke manual (PDF).