Tim Potter

Senior Clinical Director, Dawes Farm, Bognor Road, Warnham, West Sussex, RH12 3SH

Revisiting bovine respiratory disease

Accurate and early diagnosis of BRD is a critical facet of any management programme. All too frequently there are delays in identifying animals requiring treatment or an acceptance of a low level of...

Clinical forum: Running medicines training for ruminant farmers

This interest in medicine best practice has been paralleled by the Red Tractor assurance scheme that has gradually included additional recommendations and requirements in its cattle and sheep...

Early detection and treatment for bovine respiratory disease

As for many diseases, the accurate and early diagnosis of BRD is a critical step in the implementation of effective therapeutics. The variability in how animals respond to the disease, along with...

Modernising BRD control

Treatment will be most effective if it is given as early as possible in the course of a disease. Traditionally the diagnosis of pneumonia is based on visual signs of respiratory disease (e.g. reduced...

Bovine respiratory disease — challenges and opportunities

Accurate and early diagnosis of BRD is a critical facet of any therapeutic programme. All too frequently there are delays in identifying animals requiring treatment or an acceptance of a low level of...