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Treatment of strongylosis

Controlling louping ill

Predator control and moorland birds

Grand Grouse Draw

Thank you to everyone who entered the 2019 Grand Grouse Draw! The draw closed for applications on Wednesday 11 December, and the lucky winner was drawn on 18 December. We are delighted to announce that the 2019 Grand Grouse Draw raised over £30,000 for our Scottish conservation work. The prize wa...

Avoiding resistance

Use medicated grit wisely to offset resistance build-up Most estates have been providing medicated grit as a safety precaution irrespective of whether measured worm burdens show that it is necessary. Historically, this type of overuse of benzimidazole worming drugs in domestic livestock has led t...

Best practice checklist

Conduct both early and late-autumn counts of adult strongyle worms from at least 20 adult grouse per beat. If they are low to moderate, then consider delaying the decision on whether to medicate until counts of worm eggs in grouse caecal pats (faecal egg counts) are conducted in late winter or e...

Why control mink?

Corvid control

This one-day course will address the legal aspects of the various methods of corvid control employed by keepers as well as the equipment required and best practice advice. The methods covered will be: Larsen traps Multi-catch traps or big cages Decoying Roost shooting Targeting crow nests The d...

Black grouse recovery plan

Predation control

The protection of wild game by gamekeepers has by tradition involved the control of those predators that kill gamebirds or rob their nests. While some ecologists up to the late 1970s believed predation losses to be of little or no consequence to prey populations our experimental studies have demo...