Content related to the topic: best-practice

20 March 2025

Watery mouth in lambs

Watery mouth is an infectious bacterial disease that can kill newborn lambs usually within the first 3 days of life. Lambs pick up infection from the environment and the bacteria multiply very rapidly in the gut. Affected lambs die within hours.

30 July 2026

GB Dairy Calf Strategy: FAQs 

FAQs to introduce farmers and other industry stakeholders to the GB Dairy Calf Strategy

28 September 2026

Slurry cooling

Cooling slurry in storage is not only better for the environment, it's better from an economic perspective, too. Find out more about slurry cooling and how you can implement it.

24 April 2024

Vitamins & minerals for beef and sheep farmers

The tables below provide information on the different nutrients and vitamins needed in feed, for livestock to thrive.

3 March 2022

Vitamins & minerals decision tree and diagnostics

There are essential vitamins and minerals required to support productivity in livestock production. Issues can occur with imbalances, deficiencies or toxicity. It is important to understand how the different elements interact with each other, the clinical signs and management options to resolve the problem.

22 February 2024

Farm animal post mortem report template

22 February 2024

Farm animal post mortem report example

18 July 2019

Assessing the Business for Better Returns

You cannot manage what you do not measure!

7 March 2025

Flock notebook

Do you know how your animals are performing and your costs of production? Collecting records and then analysing them is the best way to understand how your business is performing.

2 November 2018

AHDB Beef & Lamb R&D review

This review is a summary of some of the research carried out by AHDB Beef & Lamb on behalf of levy payers. The annual publication includes key findings from completed projects and updates on ongoing research.