The consortium brings together leading academic institutes, industrial partners and sheep health experts. The project is led by the Moredun Research Institute and includes Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Synergy Farm Health, 5 Agri, Nighthawk Software, LSSC Ltd, Datamars Livestock and Elanco Animal Health. Gavin Coates, Director of Nighthawk Software Ltd said: "The project is catchily called “Smart sheep: precision livestock farming and sustainable sheep production”. "The long and short of it is that Moredon Research from Edinburgh have devised a formula called the “Happy Factor”, which in trials has proven effective at identifying sheep that are likely suffering from worms. By identifying these sheep, farmers can then take a more targeted approach of treating sheep – instead selectively treating animals at high risk, vs the current approach of treating all animals. This has the benefit of greatly reducing the time and cost to the farmer, while also having environmental impact of reducing antibiotic resistance of worms."