The subscription 'health clubs' helping improve flock productivity

摘要

Flock health clubs are springing up across the country, highlighting the benefits of improved collaboration between groups of farmers and vets, writes Flock Health founder Fiona Lovatt.The contact between sheep farmer and vet is often a once-yearly affair focused on meeting flock health planning requirements, but a relatively new collaborative concept is forging stronger relationships and encouraging preventative flock health management.Flock health clubs encourage groups of sheep farmers to come together and pay a monthly subscription to attend regular vet meetings and access vet advice throughout the year.