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Farm Advisory Service Lambing 2019

The Farm Advisory Service recently published a new tool to help sheep farmers know if their lambs are suffering from hypothermia. We want to follow up on this piece of work to see how you got on with lambing this year.

We have thermometers to give away in exchange for answering a few questions about treatments you give your sheep.

Are you happy to answer? There’s only 6 questions!

Your responses are essential for us to show the picture across the Scotland and will be kept confidential. Any data published will be looking at how Scotland as a whole and no individual responses will be published.
1.Do you give antibiotics to lambs?(Required.)
2.How do you choose which antibiotic to give?(Required.)
3.Where do you buy your antibiotics from?
Please select as many options that are relevant to you(Required.)
4.Do you have a thermometer in your lambing kit?(Required.)
5.What is the normal temperature of a newborn lamb?(Required.)
6.How do you usually treat cold, hunched or weak lambs? (Required.)
7.Thank you for taking the time to fill in this survey. If you would like to be sent a free Farm Advisory Service thermometer then please fill in you address below. This information is solely so that we can send you a thermometer and your address will not be linked to your lambing data or be used for any other purpose to contact you. 
Please note, that the Farm Advisory Service is a Scottish Government funded project and as such, we can only send thermometers to addresses in Scotland.  If you don't want to receive a thermometer then please just leave the contact information section above blank.  
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