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Meet Us this Summer at your local Show
We will be attending the following agricultural shows and look forward to meeting you there:
- Biggar Agricultural Show
- 18 July
- Carnwath Agricultural Show 25 July
- Abington Agricultural Show 23 August
29 June '26
Faecal Egg Count (FEC) and Sustainable Parasite Management
If you've taken part in fecal egg counting as part of your journey towards sustainable farming, this course is for you. Learn to carry out your own fecal egg count tests and cut out costly veterinary fees for good. With pay what you can pricing — from free to £100 — there's no financial barrier to building this practical, money-saving skill on your farm.
The Course Content
• Classroom and practical sessions to cover all aspects of FECs.
• Everything you need to know about parasites, including lifecycles, pathogenicity and resistance.
• How to collect, store and prepare samples.
• How to analyse and identify what you are seeing under the microscope – each attendee has exclusive use of a microscope.
• Principles of targeted, selective treatment.
• Correct use of anthelmintics.
Sarah Tinkler
of FEC it
We are delighted to have Sarah Tinkler (www.gofecit.com/) here as part of her Scottish workshop tour. Sarah is an experienced and LANTRA-approved training professional with over 30 years’ experience. Sarah will teach us how to carry out FECs on this full day course for livestock, equines, camelids, companion animals.
Optional LANTRA accreditaion and equipment discounts
This is a LANTRA accredited course and you can opt to receive the qualification for an additional fee of £60. All course participants will receive discount codes if they wish to purchase their own FEC equipment at the end of the course.
4 July '26
Farm Walk
@ The Lint Mill, Carnwath
4 July, 11am - 4pm (includes an organic lunch)
This is a FREE event but please sign up to give us an idea of numbers for catering.
The Making of a Meadow
The Lint Mill is a 13-acre certified organic smallholding. Five years ago, Debby and Colin began to regenerate a field into a meadow with the help of *ScotFWAG’s Birds & Bees Project. Hear the story of how they built soil biology and plant and animal diversity and look at the positive impact that this project has had on the ecology of the farm in a remarkably short space of time. We will also have the opportunity to look at non-crop plants (aka weeds!) to ask what they are telling us about the conditions beneath our feet.
