After a request from a number of producers in the South West, Helen Thoday organised a pregnancy scanning training day at St David’s Vet Practice.
The afternoon allowed producers to learn from Andrew Carr a very experienced scanner from Larkmead Scanning Services and to practice on sows in different stages of pregnancy.
Further discussions over tea and
scones included the cost of empty days, farm policies for NIP’s and current preg
scanning routines.
Also there was Tony O’Loughlin to
discuss sow health and Bob Gornall from Rotech to explain about the different
scanners available.
Darren
Cordingley a pig unit manager from Somerset said “I found the time with Andrew
very interesting and I will definitely be investing in a real time scanner, I
have Bob’s number!”.