Sheep

Welfare

Cattle

• Improved understanding of the transmission of mastitis in ewes and strategies for its control
• Persistence and transmission of intramammary pathogens causing acute mastitis: the role of chronic intramammary abscesses

Lameness:

• Development of a validated lameness control protocol for sheep flocks
• Persistence of Dichelobacter nodosus, the causal agent of footrot in sheep
• The role of Fusobacterium necrophorum in the severity and persistence of footrot
• A national cohort study of the microbial diversity of Dichelobacter nodosus in sheep
• Dichelobacter nodosus metapopulations and epidemiology of footrot in an endemically infected flock
• Endemic disease molecular epidemiology and modelling: is footrot a multistrain infection?
• Persistence of Dichelobacter nodosus on the feet of sheep: a molecular study
• Development, testing and roll out of an online lameness recording system for sheep farmers
• Changing the education of young farmers to facilitate uptake of evidence based managements for healthy feet in sheep

• Overcoming the barriers to uptake of best welfare practice by sheep farmers
• Welfare indicators assessed at slaughter: Evaluation in ruminants
• Developing an efficient, validated, sustainable on-farm syndromic surveillance system for beef cattle and sheep

• Are microbiomes important to mammary gland health in dairy cows?