Anthelmintic resistance – keeping your stock healthy

Learn about anthelmintic resistance and keeping your livestock healthy with Ben Strugnell of Farm Post Mortems Ltd.

Join us along with Carr's Billington, NFU Skipton and Clitheroe and Elanco for a collaborative event at the CCM Market Skipton as we hear from Ben Strugnell of Farm Post Mortems Ltd. and Roxanne Winstanley, a key account manager at Elanco.

What you'll take away

• Knowledge of why it's important to test for worms
• A better understanding of the growth stages of worms and worm burdens
• First-hand experience looking inside a carcase so you'll know what to look for to identify cause of death
• An understanding of how organ and intestinal damage is linked with parasitic invasion

Agenda

• 6:30pm Arrival
• 7:00pm Welcome and introduction to the evening – Karl Pendlebury, AHDB
• 7:15pm Anthelmintic resistance – Roxanne Winstanley, Elanco
  • Testing for worm burdens
  • Drug rotation
  • Timings of worm burden cycles
• 7:30 Post-mortem of sheep to diagnose cause of death and show what to look for on and in the organs – Ben Strugnell, Farm Post Mortems Ltd.
• 8:50pm Closing comments – Karl Pendlebury

Speaker information

Farm Post Mortems Ltd. is run by Ben Strugnell BVM&S Cert PM MRCVS, an independent vet with a particular interest in farm animal pathology. Post-mortems are carried out in a lab facility on site in the north-east of England. 

Ben qualified from the vet school at Edinburgh University in 2002 and worked in mixed practice in North Yorkshire for five years, specialising in farm animals. He then went on to work for the Veterinary Laboratory Agency in Thirsk, where he developed his skills in pathology and his belief that an accurate post-mortem can diagnose the majority of diseases in farm animals and can prevent unnecessary losses and improve productivity on farm.

He subsequently set up Farm Post Mortems Ltd. to offer a comprehensive gross post-mortem service and to give vets and farmers a way of diagnosing disease and increasing livestock efficiency, so improving profit margin.