Holding registers for cattle and sheep are available to download from the following links:

Cattle Holding Register

Sheep Holding Register

The Sheep and Goat Annual Inventory for 2024 is now open and available for completion at www.scoteid.com/survey

Sheep and Goat keepers have been sent an email from the Animal Health and Welfare Disease Prevention Team within Scottish Government.

The SGAI is available to complete via the online survey only. More information is available in the guidance. The survey closes on the 30th January 2025, please ensure your Sheep and Goat Annual Inventory is completed by then.

Should you have any queries relating to the survey that are not connected to completing it, please email sheepandgoatinventory@gov.scot

Click here to read the Scottish Government official notice to complete the annual inventory.

At the request of the industry, the Scottish Government are providing financial support to the sheep industry to develop an OPA disease control programme and this pilot is now in its second year. The pilot has been developed by the industry-led Scottish OPA working group and it aims to increase the number of veterinary practitioners with proven expertise in recognising signs of OPA in live sheep through ultrasound scanning in the absence of any better diagnostic test.

One of the farmers recruited to the project hosts the YouTube channel ‘The Sheep Game’ and has made a video about OPA scanning while their vet was out scanning: WE HAVE OPA! (youtube.com). There is also a video about scanning produced by Moredun: Research in a Nutshell - OPA Control (youtube.com).

Sheep keepers will benefit through earlier diagnosis and interventions allowing for affected animals to be culled and removed from flocks at an earlier stage. Compensation payments are being made to farmers for the removal of animals which will be used for the collection of tissue samples for definitive diagnosis to validate the ultrasound scanning technique and for future studies such as development of a new live diagnostic test.

If you know of any farms that would be interested in being involved in the pilot project there are still some limited spaces available. If you are willing to participate in this pilot and have your flock scanned for OPA please contact Chris Cousens at the MRI (chris.cousens@moredun.ac.uk).

With the changing bluetongue situation, all farmers, vets and stakeholders are urged to join a critical industry BTV-3 webinar Wednesday 4 September from 3-4pm to get the latest updates and advice from experts. Register today via: https://bit.ly/3AJzxlq

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• If suspicion of notifiable disease it is to be reported through the correct channels.
• There are NO restrictions on vets attending farms where BTV3 is  confirmed/suspected. This is midge born virus. 
• Treatment is important – recent article In practice by Fiona Lovatt, Rachael Tarlinton, Margit Groenevelt. LINK to the article 

Bluetongue situation is changing rapidly and More information on the current situation can be found here and on Bluetongue Virus – Ruminant Health & Welfare (ruminanthw.org.uk)

Our telephone provider is currently experiencing a technical disruption, and as a result, we are temporarily unable to take any calls or voicemails.

Please email help@scoteid.com with any queries.

The global IT outage that affected phone lines yesterday has been resolved. The ScotEID phone line is working, and the Huntly office is back to business as usual. Apologies to anyone that tried to contact us yesterday and was unable to do so. 

Come and visit ScotEID at the Royal Highland Show.

The ScotEID Technical team are supporting Scottish Governments consultation on CattleEID in Scotland so if you have any questions please come along and see us. There will be help available to complete the consultation online or we will have paper copies to take away. The ScotEID Information Centre team will be there to help with any ScotMoves+, BVD, Sheep and Pig queries.

You can find us on the 7th Avenue, we look forward to seeing you there.

The Scottish Government is seeking views on proposals to change the cattle identification and traceability regime within Scotland. We would strongly encourage all parts of the supply chain to respond before the 27th of June.

SG consultation page

ScotEID EID consultation video

ScotEID Youtube channel

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Exhibiting at Shows - For cattle attending livestock shows, please record a ScotMoves+ Off Movement to the Show CPH. Upon submitting the movement you will be asked if you would like to record the return movement also. A full how-to guide can be found here.

Cattle moving to grazing - please record your 'within business' cattle movements if you move cattle to additional holdings for grazing.

Cattle deaths - please record all cattle deaths on ScotMoves+ and post back the passports for cattle that have died on farm or are missing/presumed dead. Fallen stock companies do not record cattle deaths on your behalf.

Thank you from the Help Team - 01466 794323