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Fieldwork- I’ll cover some of my work into the causes of unexplained lamb losses. During 2021 and 2022 I followed lamb health issues on two farms, a croft and @SRUC’s Auchtertyre farm, which have all experienced blackloss. This gave me 12 flocks to study across the holdings. 1/17 
I visited the farms and croft when they were gathering their flocks in for checks and treatments at scanning, pre-lambing, marking, clipping and weaning. Most flocks lamb on the open hill, and so marking would be the first lamb check. 2/17
I assessed the lambs for any health issues to gauge what pressures and threats are present in each flock. Lambs were checked for ticks, dirty rears, and infections. Lambs with plochteach/yellowses were scored on the severity of their photosynthesisation and treated. 3/17
We have #nlpony's, chicken's, a cat, and a dog on our little farm here in the middle of Eastport. We've been establishing fencing to keep our animals contained but also to keep people from walking around our personal home & animals or driving atv's / ski-doo's through our fields.
It has been a struggle, to say the least. We've had fencing pulled down, animals harassed, been trespassed on by people from neighbouring businesses. There has been almost no co-operation from either town council or local residents in dealing with the ongoing situation.
As someone who did not grow up here, its challenging. I moved back from the mainland 15yrs ago to pursue a life, and build a business in rural NL. Its understandable some people will be unable to cope with change, but that's their issue not mine.
