The UK's Premier Agricultural Machinery and Technology Show

20–21 January 2027, NEC, Birmingham

Event Details

Johnes disease: How do you know if you have the disease in your flock?

Farmers Guardian
clock • 1 min read
Johnes disease: How do you know if you have the disease in your flock?

 

Our expert panel also discuss Virbac's Gudair vaccine and how the vaccine provides reassurance and performance in livestock against this Ovine disease.

Often fatigued sheep can be seen as signs of fluke or similar illnesses but that may not be the case and shockingly Ovine Johnes Disease is the cause.

What is Johnes Disease (OJD)?

Johne's Disease is a chronic wasting disease; the infection causes inflammation of the gut, so animals are not able to absorb the nutrients they require. They get thinner and thinner and essentially starve to death.

Round Table Attendees

Fiona Lovatt, MA VetMB PhD MRCVS, Sheep Specialist Peers Davies 

Ben Strugnel, BVM&S Cert PM MRCVS, Farm Post mortems Ltd

Ben Briggs, Editor In Chief, Farmers Guardian

Maddy Lewis, Sheep Farmer, Gudair User

Ioan Humphreys, Sheep Farmer

Bizza Walters, Sheep Farmer

 

 

More on Sheep

Haemonchus highlighted to sheep farmers ahead of autumn

Haemonchus highlighted to sheep farmers ahead of autumn

With Haemonchus contortus increasingly prevalent across the UK, sheep farmers are encouraged to widen their worm monitoring programmes to include adult ewes. Farmers Guardian reports.

Ellie Layton
clock 13 October 2026 • 3 min read
'Double whammy' of costs for fallen stock collection

'Double whammy' of costs for fallen stock collection

Concerns over rendering capacity and costs have been raised after bluetongue outbreaks this year

Howard Walsh
clock 08 October 2026 • 2 min read
Bluetongue ram fertility concerns could force breeding delays

Bluetongue ram fertility concerns could force breeding delays

Fertility has been 'severely affected' in a high proportion of rams tested at a farm veterinary practice in the south-west

Rachael Brown
clock 22 September 2026 • 5 min read