Liver fluke risk rises with this year's wet weather. Farmers are urged to test livestock and avoid complacency to control potential outbreaks.

According to Parasitologists working at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), farmers need to be aware of the risk ...

Haemonchosis and liver fluke can be hard to distinguish, and both can result in sheep with bottle jaw, explains independent sheep consultant Lesley Stubbings of Scops. “If you’re worried about ...

As we come to the end of selling our lambs for 2024, preparations are already well underway for the next breeding season.

The losses during that winter were estimated at three million sheep, or about one-tenth of ... in large numbers of a parasite called the liver-fluke (Fasciola hepatica) in the liver of the ...

Sheep should remain on lands where there is no risk of dip coming in contact with watercourses for at least 24 hours, and ...

Liver fluke is caused by a flat leaf-like worm called Fasciola Hepatica. The fluke cycle involves two separate hosts, the mud snail and the sheep. Liver fluke when left untreated can result in the ...

Liver fluke burdens in sheep and cattle could be worse this winter than in previous years, an animal health expert has warned. Dr Philip Skuce from Moredun Research Institute said farmers should not ...