Livestock Matters - Autumn 2015

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X LVETS NEWS
WORKING TOGETHER FOR A HEALTHIER FUTURE...
400 cupcakes decorated by farmers, students and industry professionals, not exactly what you would expect
of two days at the Livestock Event!
Livestock Event 2015
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Inside this issue:
The new ‘Five Point Plan’ for sheep lameness.
Calf scour
Identifying the causes of scour, treatment
options and prevention strategies.
Sheep lameness
Ready, steady, decorate…
This year XLVets celebrates its 10th birthday,
and as part of the celebrations, we decided
that we would need cake! After much
deliberation about how we could incorporate
cakes into a FarmSkills challenge, we
decided that cake decorating was the
obvious choice. Or not, perhaps?
This year’s stand at the Livestock Event
incorporated two large workstations in the
shape of the number 10. The giant number
‘1’ was home to the sheep lameness
challenge, to support the XLVets ‘Stand up to
Sheep Lameness‘ initiative; farmers identified
different lesions and matched the condition to
the appropriate treatments.
The giant ‘0’ became a workstation where
visitors to the stand created their cupcake
masterpieces. We got just about every farm
animal produced in careful detail, along with
flowers, field scenes and pets to mention but
a few of the highlights.
The top five decorated cupcakes were then
posted on the XLVets Twitter page and
FarmSkills Facebook page for members of
the public to vote for their favourite and the
chance to win a FarmSkills workshop. The
winning cupcake was a quad bike which
received in excess of 100 votes.
The stand was busy for the whole of the two
days, with visitors taking the time to view the
10 year timeline that ran around the stand
walls. A huge thank you must go to all the
XLVets practices that came along and helped
over the two days. ‘The winning cake’