Technical Bulletins

This area provides information about various aspects of the sheep industry and sheep disease.

Bluetongue

General Information on Bluetongue

Bluetongue vaccination videos from Farmers Weekly, please click here
Follow this link for up-to-date information on the current bluetongue situation - DEFRA WEB SITE
BVA pages covering bluetongue, including links to images which may assist with disease recognition, may also be found here

Bluetongue images and similar symptoms which are not bluetongue: pdf link

• Control of BVT (powerpoint 60kb)
• Symptoms (powerpoint 6Mb)
• Cattle BVT (powerpoint 4Mb)
• Bluetongue (powerpoint 3.5 Mb)

Images taken from 2 rams clinically affected with Bluetongue and submitted for post-mortem examination are available on VLA's website: www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/vla/science/science-viral-bluetongue-sheep.htm 

(The site also contains images of BTV affected cattle submitted for PME)

Archive

The following articles and resources have appeared on this website in the past few years.

They are provided here for information with the clear proviso that all readers are aware of their age.

Foot and Mouth in Sheep (2001)

Caseous Lymphadenitis (2001)

Scab Presentation, courtesy of SAC (updated 23 Oct 2003)

Sustainable Worm control in sheep - some resources (added 10Sept 2004)