8th ISVC 2013 Rotorua, New Zealand

Rotorua, New Zealand, 18th – 22nd February 2013 The origins of the Society of Sheep and Beef Cattle Veterinarians NZVA bid for the 8th ISVC had its genesis back around 2003/04 when a few of us on the committee thought that it would be about time that the congress in 2009 was held down this […]

7th ISVC 2009 Stavanger, Norway

Stavanger, Norway, 12th – 16th June 2009 In September 1995, the autumn meeting of the Sheep Veterinary Society was held in Sandnes, on the South West coast of Norway. The SVS was the formal organizer, while The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Section for Small Ruminant Research in Sandnes (NVH), together with The Norwegian Small […]

6th ISVC 2005

Sheep Veterinary Society Pre-conference European Tour June 2005 The 32 delegates assembled at the County Hotel, Dover, on Sunday 5th June. The hotel was in condition score 1.5 and the management seemed surprised by our arrival. We finally managed dinner and coffee and were ready for the great adventure. It had to get better and […]

5th ISVC 2001 Stellenbosch, South Africa

Stellenbosch, South Africa, 21st – 22nd January 2001 Background There were no South Africans at the inaugural meeting for sheep veterinarians held in 1985, mainly because nobody was informed or invited, but a few sheep vets and their partners were at the second meeting in New Zealand in 1989, where the possibility of holding a […]

4th ISVC 1997 New South Wales, Australia

Held on 2nd to 6th February, 1997 at University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia Australia was an appropriate host for the Fourth Congress. It has one of the world’s largest sheep populations, it leads the world in wool production and it exports 40% of its prime lamb production. The sheep enterprises and […]

1993.

The 1993 ISVC history synopsis will be uploaded once it is available.

2nd ISVC 1989 Palmerston North

Massey University, Palmerston North, 12th – 16th February 1989 Several NZ vets attended the first International Sheep Vet Congress in Edinburgh in June 1985. These included Bruce Farquharson, Robert Bruce and me (Bob Gumbrell). We put forward a case to have the next one in NZ and this was accepted. Bruce was the driving force […]

1985. The Sheep Veterinary Society International Meeting. Edinburgh

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. June 23 – 26th June 1985 Two very successful Sheep Fairs were run at the Galashiels College of Textiles and the St Boswells Veterinary Investigation Centre in the Scottish Borders in 1977 and 1981. These were organised by the East of Scotland College of Agriculture (ESCA) in conjunction with the Sheep Veterinary […]