‘Completely invaluable,’ is how Angus sheep producer Luisa Laird describes the proactive flock health input she has received from her vet over the last seven years. Luisa entered sheep farming back in 2014, buying in just 10 ewes initially to kickstart a low input livestock enterprise she could run alongside the Laird family’s 1200-acre Burnside Farm, Memus near Forfar, and a more substantial farming enterprise in Northern Poland. “I was pretty clueless at the start and relied heavily on advice from our farming neighbour Duncan Beaton, which was very kind – but I’m not sure I’d still be in sheep without the focus we now have on preventative flock health,” she says.