Breeding for sustainability for the commercial flock

Prospect Poll Dorsets have been performance recording their Poll Dorsets for seven years and have been involved in the national Breed for CH4nge Innovate Research Project, which looks at reducing methane emissions from sheep through breeding choices.

The flock is farmed predominately on low-input grassland on the Purbeck coast, along with their Stabiliser and Belted Galloway cattle and Hebridean sheep.

We'll be looking at how they approach sustainable parasite control and how it has overlapped with the Breed for CH4nge project.

During a farm walk we'll look at:

• The impact of performance recording on the flock output and breeding values
• How genomics is being introduced and why it’s relevant for commercial flock performance
• How this autumn-lambing flock is managed 

Speakers

• Emily Gascoigne, Synergy Farm Health, specialist sheep vet, Prospect Poll Dorsets
• Emily Fraser, sheep resident, PVC/Synergy Farm Health
• Charlotte Mouland, sheep vet, Synergy Farm Health
• Sam Boon, Senior Livestock Consultant, AHDB
• Janet Roden, sheep genetecist, Innovis Sheep Breeding

A light lunch will be provided.