Tag: sheep

Sustain Sheep is a new international research initiative led by SRUC and the Texel Sheep Society, aiming to reduce methane emissions from sheep through selective breeding. The project is exploring how genetic improvement can contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions without compromising performance.

Senior Certification Officer, Stephen Smith talks about how to carry out a faecal egg count and what it could reveal.  What are faecal egg counts? A faecal egg count (FEC) is a method of determining how many internal parasite eggs are present in a dung sample. It may also be possible to determine the different […]