Have you had an Animal Health and Welfare Review in the last 10 months for cattle or sheep?
If so, you will be eligible for an endemic disease follow-up visit (an Improvement in Animal Health and Welfare (IAHW) visit). The IAHW involves further sampling for a variety of conditions which can be selected to best help your flock or herd.
There is £215 available for blood sampling of your choice. This could include screening barren cows for causes of infertility, heifers for neospora, trace element testing, or johnes on suspicious individuals – to name a few examples! For farms that were BVD positive, there is £837 available, which can be used to carry out a PI hunt.
For sheep – there is £639 available to use on one of the following laboratory panels:
Ewe condition, which could include Johne’s, Maedi Visna (MV), Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA), Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA), trace elements, liver fluke, haemonchosis, ewe nutrition status, mastitis, tick-borne fever, louping ill, orf, pulpy kidney.
External parasites, including flystrike and sheep scab.
Lameness, which could include joint ill, lameness, foot rot, scald, contagious ovine digital dermatitis (CODD), granuloma, heel or toe abscess, shelly hoof, and tick pyaemia.
Useful around springtime, the following packages are also available:
Reproductive performance, which could include: enzootic abortion of ewes (EAE), border disease (BD), toxoplasmosis, ewe nutrition status, trace elements, liver fluke, and tick-borne fever.
Lamb performance, which could include border disease (BD), trace elements, liver fluke, parasitic gastroenteritis (PGE), coccidiosis, mastitis, tick-borne fever, louping ill, tick pyaemia, lamb nutrition status, orf, pulpy kidney, lamb dysentery, and pasteurellosis.
Neonatal lamb survival, which could include border disease (BD), toxoplasmosis, joint ill, ewe nutrition status, trace elements, watery mouth, mastitis, tick pyaemia, lamb dysentery, and pasteurellosis.
To sign up – simply follow the link to start your application.
N.B. These grants are only available to farmers who have already had an animal health and welfare visit. However, AHWR visits are still available via a grant, so why not book one and schedule a follow-up afterwards?! Follow the link to get started.
You’ll need your Rural Payments service customer reference number (CRN) and password to sign in.
You must have a minimum number of animals each time the vet visits your farm. You must have one of the following:
You can still apply for funding if you received a lump sum payment to leave or retire from farming.
You must:
The CPH number must be registered in England.
You can have annual reviews and follow-ups three times, giving you three years of funding. Annual reviews are regularly used in conjunction with Red Tractor health plans, so make the most of that grant money!
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