The Moredun Foundation

13/10/2026

Looking forward to the Scottish Smallholding & Countryside Festival 🐑🌾 on Saturday 17th October 2026 at The Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston.
Pop along and visit our outreach bus.
Grab your festival tickets online in advance: www.festival.scot
Image from 2025

Equine Grass Sickness Fund

12/10/2026

⭐ Moredun re-establishes Squirrelpox vaccine research ⭐

With a grant from the JABBS Foundation, Moredun is now seeking a post-doctoral researcher to set up virological and immunological methods to assess the performance of candidate vaccines for protection of red squirrels from the deadly squirrelpox virus (SQPV).

The new research programme is currently funded for one year and will re-establish techniques previously used at Moredun to analyse SQPV and to develop assays for protective antibody responses. It is also hoped that the appointed researcher will contribute to funding applications for the continuation of research in SQPV vaccinology and related areas

Moredun currently serves the squirrel conservation community by providing diagnostic testing which helps track the spread of SQPV-infected grey squirrels and supporting conservation projects.

Link to apply in comments ⤵️

08/10/2026

Back in August some of the parasitology team attended a Regen Dairy Farm Walk event near Kirkcudbright organised by . The morning involved a farm walk then in the afternoon attendees were able to hear about Moredun's work on regen agriculture and parasitology as well as learning how to do Faecal Egg Counts.

The FEC's were very popular! Here's a podcast by Ali Mordin chatting to various people including Moredun's own Dr Adam Hayward (skip to 21 mins to hear from Adam 😀 )

The South West Soil Health Group met at Langbarns Dairy Farm near Kirkcudbright - home of Donald Armstrong and family. A super interesting farm walk looking at how Donald is switching to a low input organic system - followed by a session with Moredun looking at F***l Egg Counts. We were also joined....

07/10/2026

All set up for a fun day at the Yorkshire Agricultural Society Agrituniry event.

The Moredun bus is here with a hands on sheep scab ELISA workshop and introduction to Veterinary pathology.

06/10/2026

**Vet CPD**
Veterinary Clinical Training: Ultrasound examination with emphasis on the veterinary control of OPA.
The main focus of the day will be to provide one-to-one practical training on scanning live sheep with a range of lung pathologies including 6-10 cases of OPA, following this up with necropsy so that the association between the scan output and gross lesions can be confirmed.
Wednesday 11th Nov 2026
Costs £400
7hrs with 4hrs practical training
Further information: https://moredun.org.uk/events/veterinary-clinical-training-ultrasound-examination-with-emphasis-on-the-veterinary-control-of-opa-3
British Veterinary Association - BVA XLVets Farm Vet Record

01/10/2026

We’re heading to the Scottish Smallholding & Countryside Festival🐑🌾 with our outreach bus again.
Come visit us at on Saturday 17th October 2026 at The Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston.
Grab your festival tickets online in advance: www.festival.scot
Image from 2025

01/10/2026

We were delighted to present at the Sheep Veterinary Society autumn conference in Kilkenny Ireland this week.
Susanna Ó Raghallaigh talking about 'How does TMEM154 interact with Maedi Visna?

01/10/2026

The Moredun parasitology team are very excited to be part of the the Scottish Sustainable Agriculture Conference at Guardswell Farm.

The team will be on the biobus all day ready to show you how you can perform faecal egg counts from your own animals.

Be sure to pop out to visit them 🔬

24/09/2026

Great news about the sheep dipping project 👏👏👏