Latest articles by Cassandra Longhi
Farm animal
It’s unlikely for any sheep keepers, however small-scale, never to have come across lick buckets or other ways to supplement sheep with minerals, trace elements and vitamins. Often asked about, often the cause (or the sc…
Farm animal
Anyone working with sheep will have come across lameness in their flock; irrespective of animal numbers, it can be hard (and at times frustrating) keeping on top of lameness cases when there’s many other jobs to do on th…
Farm animal
Sheep are happiest outside, even in winter. They have a thick woolly coat which is great at keeping them protected from the cold. Their digestive system is optimised to process grass at different times of the year, even…
Farm animal
Sheep and goats are widely known as small ruminants; they are part of a larger group of herbivores who all possess a rumen and ruminate (or chew the cud). And that means their digestive process is quite unfamiliar to man…
Behaviour
Many of us, especially those often working with or in contact with animals, will have wondered what their noises mean… And why do they make noises at all? We humans are a very noisy kind of social animal; the many differ…
Animal Welfare
You might not have heard of “Ventilation Shutdown” as a method of euthanasing large numbers of farm animals simultaneously. But in some parts of the world it is legal and accepted. In this article, our farm vet Cassandra…
