Blow fly prevention, control and costs in a changing climate

Description

Join Dr Katie Lihou (University of Bristol), Phillipa Page (NADIS) and Matt Colston (ELANCO) for discussions around blowfly control. A review of the blow fly life cycle along with preventative management strategies and appropriate chemical use will be discussed by Matt from ELANCO. Phillipa will describe effective treatments of clinically affected sheep to minimise compromised sheep welfare.  Dr Lihou will discuss the costs associated with prevention and treatment of clinical cases of blowfly using cost/benefit analysis modelling. This will be a useful refresher ahead of the blow fly season to ensure that knowledge is up to date for improved client and customer engagement. This event will conclude with a Q&A session.

This webinar, aimed at Vets, SQPS and farmers, is being hosted by NADIS in association with Elanco.

Dr Katie L Lihou, PhD, BSc

Katie completed her PhD at the University of Bristol on the prevalence and distribution of livestock ectoparasites in the UK, in the department of Veterinary Parasitology and Ecology.

Before her PhD, she studied 3 years of Veterinary Medicine, before moving into Biology.

Katie is now a post-doctoral researcher working in the Bristol Vaccine Centre on infectious disease epidemiology and modelling.

Phillipa Page, BVSc BSc MRCVS 

Phillipa qualified from Liverpool Vet School in 2006 and started her first job in Neath, South Wales in a mixed practice. Following a short time as a locum dairy vet in Devon she then joined Wood Vet group in 2009 as a large animal vet. Her work was predominantly dairy but she had a special interest in sheep and developed the sheep side of the practice.

In 2016 she then moved to specialize in sheep veterinary work with Flock Health Ltd. This involves a mixture of consultancy flock health work, farmer and vet CPD training and collaboration with retailers, processors and pharmaceutical companies and industry levy bodies. Phillipa was part of the co design groups for the DEFRA Animal Health and Welfare Pathway and Endemics disease program.

Phillipa also works with NADIS (National Animal Disease Information Service) as the sheep lead on the Blowfly, parasite control, online health planning and disease alerts information.

She has been a board member on the British Cattle Veterinary Association and the Sheep Veterinary Society and is the current conference organiser for the Sheep Veterinary Society and the current Junior Vice President.

Phillipa co authored and published a book ‘Sheep Keeping’ as part of the professional small holders series by 5M Publishing and the chapter ‘Lameness’ in Differential Diagnosis in Sheep. 2022 Herriot Publications. She is involved with research and works on regular contributions to publications and is currently working towards a Diploma of the European College of Small Ruminant Health and Production.

Outside of work she is a tenant farmer of 100 acres. Together with her husband and two boys she farms a flock of 300 commercial ewes and has a farm shop.

Matt Colston, BM & S, CertSHP, MRCVS

Matt graduated from the R(D)SVS in Edinburgh in 1986. He then spent five years working in a mixed practice in Fife and the Borders before taking up a two-year demonstrator’s position (shared between R(D)SVS and SAC (Edinburgh Genetics), concentrating on equine reproduction and artificial breeding in small ruminants.

He later obtained the Cert.SHP qualification before returning to general practice in Penrith, where he has worked since 1997.

In November 2013, Matt joined Novartis Animal Health as a Veterinary Technical Advisor for the Farm Animal Team. When Novartis was acquired by Elanco, he continued in this role with the company. Also, Matt currently serves as the Chairman of Moredun Foundation's North of England Regional Board.