Nematodirosis is a severe disease of 6-12 week old lambs, which become infected through ingesting large numbers of infected larvae present on contaminated pasture. Infection is characterised by profuse diarrhoea and wasting and mortalities in untreated lambs can be high. Nematodirus larvae invade the intestinal mucosa and in some cases death may occur before signs [...]
If we needed reminding that we were moving into March then this is surely it. However, if reports are to be believed, the numbers of finished young lamb is scarce.
ICM Camolin killed some last week for Superquinn. Quotes seem to vary between 550c/kg and 600c/kg. Kildare Chilling is offering 550c/kg up to 19kg, while a [...]
IRELAND – Henry Burns of the Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) has called on the Minister for Agriculture Mary Coughlan to undertake a full investigation into mislabelling of meat in some Eurospar outlets.
Henry Burns said IFA members in Kilkenny have discovered frozen legs of lamb with official New Zealand meat stamps relabelled with Eurospar labels stating [...]
Members of Kilkenny IFA are outraged over what they term is the incorrect labelling of lamb which they discovered in a supermarket in Kilkenny in recent days.
The claims that frozen lamb stamped as being of New Zealand origin, have been met with disgust and anger by the members of the Kilkenny IFA sheep committee.
James Murphy [...]
